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![What About Our Japanese-Americans](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/945/411/1609411945.0.m.jpg)
What About Our Japanese-Americans
by McWILLIAMS, Carey
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- (1944)
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New York: Public Affairs Committee, Inc, (1944). First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers, 32pp; illus. Mild aging, with gentle toning to text margins; Very Good. A critique of U.S. policy towards American citizens of Japanese descent in the years following America's entry into WW2. Produced under the auspices of the American Council, Institute of Pacific… Read more about this item Item Price
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![The Anatomy of Dependence](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/872/563/1608563872.0.m.jpg)
The Anatomy of Dependence
by DOI, Takeo; John Bester, transl
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- 1973
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Tokyo: Kodansha, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 170pp. Small address label inside front cover, else a tight, clean and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.95 on front flap), slightly creased/rolled at spine ends, with small portion of lamination beginning to separate; Very Good.
The… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/728/178/1547178728.0.m.jpg)
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Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan
by d'ANETHAN, Baroness Albert; H.E. Baron Kato, introd
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- (1912)
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London: Stanley Paul & Co, (1912). Second Edition. Octavo. Publisher's embossed blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; 471pp; 48pp publisher's ads; gravure frontispiece portrait and 65 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Spine rubbed and sun-faded, else moderate rubbing and soil to cloth; internally clean, tight, and complete; Very Good. Ownership signature of a May… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Twice in Two Thousand Years](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/939/915/1546915939.0.m.jpg)
Twice in Two Thousand Years
by [JAPAN] SHOLTY, Alva H; Sen. Raymond E. Willis, fwd
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- (1946)
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Dayton: Otterbein Press, (1946). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 220pp. Previous owner's ink note to front free endpaper, else tight, straight and unmarked, Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap); slightly edgeworn with brief loss at crown of spine and a small triangular chip to rear panel; Very Good.… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Perry's Expedition to Japan, 1853-1854](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/359/349/1544349359.0.m.jpg)
Perry's Expedition to Japan, 1853-1854
by ZABRISKIE, George A.
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- 1951
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Ormond Beach: The Doldrums, 1951. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; 26,[4]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed, minor marks to rear board, generally Very Good or better. 750 copies printed. [62057]. Item Price
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![Prisoner of War. An exhibition of eighty drawings and three paintings in the Northcutt Gallery of Art..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/964/153/1535153964.0.m.jpg)
Prisoner of War. An exhibition of eighty drawings and three paintings in the Northcutt Gallery of Art..
by STEELE, Ben
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- 1986
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Billings, MT: Eastern Montana College, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; viii,42pp; illus. Slight separation of covers at bottom 1" of text, else a clean, Very Good or better copy. Exhibition of drawings, caricatures and paintings by Benjamin Charles Steele, long-time Professor of Art at Estern Montana University and a former prisoner of war during WW2. Item Price
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![Japan in Color: Noh Play](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/196/389/1534389196.0.m.jpg)
Japan in Color: Noh Play
by [JAPAN - PHOTOGRAPHY]
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- 1956
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Tokyo: Fuji Color Photo Company, Ltd, 1956. Edition and printing not stated. Octavo. Pictorial flexible boards; single leaf of text (bilingual, English & Japanese) with ten mounted 35mm color transparencies. About fine.
Eighth in a series of similar photographic books from Fuji, each containing 10 color transparencies on a different theme. According to the rear cover, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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![The Life of Animals in Japanese Art](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/562/941/1470941562.0.m.jpg)
The Life of Animals in Japanese Art
by SINGER, Robert T. & Kawai Masatomo
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- 2019
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (31cm). Cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 323pp, illus. Fine in fine jacket; bookplate inside front cover of Smithsonian curator James G. Mead. Item Price
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![João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/595/597/1463597595.0.m.jpg)
João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan
by RODRIGUES, João; Michael Cooper (ed.)
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- 2001
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London: The Hakluyt Society, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm). Dark blue cloth, gilt-stamped, in blue dust jacket; [xlii],428pp; black and white illus. Straight, sturdy, and bright, with spotting to top and fore-edges of textblock, not affecting interior: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, Very Good or better. Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 7. Item Price
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![Kagawa Calendar, 1940](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/699/415/1461415699.0.m.jpg)
Kagawa Calendar, 1940
by [KAGAWA, Toyohiko]
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[Delavan, WI: Delavan Republican (printers), 1940]. Square 16mo (13.5cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; [28pp]. Mild crease at upper portion of front cover, else Near Fine.
Seventh in a series of devotional calendars published by the Japanese Christian evangelist, labor organizer, and promoter of ecnomic cooperation, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Kagawa was a frequent lecturer in the United States,… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Hokusai](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/204/707/1457707204.0.m.jpg)
Hokusai
by YONEMURA, Ann
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- 2006
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Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2006. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's beige cloth, in dust jacket; xii,251pp; color plates throughout. Straight, fresh copy: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, else Near Fine. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Freer and Sackler Galleries. Item Price
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![The Samurai](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/392/827/1439827392.0.m.jpg)
The Samurai
by ENDO, Shusaku
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- First American Edition
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- 1980
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New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Cloth-backed paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Tight, straight copy, Near Fine, in price-clipped but otherwise Near Fine jacket. An attractive copy of Endo's critically-acclaimed sixth novel, winner of the 1980 Noma Literary Prize. Translated by Van C. Gessel, and including a brief Translator's Note by him. Item Price
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![The League and Manchuria: the First Phase of the Chinese-Japanese Conflict September 18-30, 1931 (Geneva Special Studies Vol. II, no. 10 - October 1931)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/312/911/1376911312.0.m.jpg)
The League and Manchuria: the First Phase of the Chinese-Japanese Conflict September 18-30, 1931 (Geneva Special Studies Vol. II, no. 10 - October 1931)
by [SINO-JAPANESE CONFLICT - LEAGUE OF NATIONS]
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- 1931
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Geneva: Geneva Research Information Committee, 1931. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound, printed thick paper wrappers; 34pp. Moderate external soiling and wear, with corner-creasing and a few brief nicks to wrapper margins; Very Good.
Day-by-day review of the League's actions in the first weeks of the Sino-Japanese War, beginning with the Mukden Incident, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria,… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Horse hauling timber out of Hokkaido forest](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/836/412/1362412836.0.m.jpg)
Horse hauling timber out of Hokkaido forest
by GIFFORD, Barry
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- 1979
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Santa Barbara: Christopher's Books, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; [24pp]. Small spot of discoloration to rear cover, else Near Fine. Gifford's seventh published book, a collection of short lyrics mostly composed in Japan in 1975. Item Price
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![Sun at Midnight: Poems and Sermons [Advance Uncorrected Proof]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/817/952/1356952817.0.m.jpg)
Sun at Midnight: Poems and Sermons [Advance Uncorrected Proof]
by SOSEKI, Muso; W.S. Merwin and Soiku Shigematsu, trans
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- Advance Reading Copy
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- 1989
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€23.67
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Berkeley: North Point Press, 1989. Advance Reading Copy. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's white printed card wrappers; xxvi,[2],175pp.; double-page chart in rear. Wrappers a bit worn at extremities and the whole rather dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Advance uncorrected reading copy with promotional literature laid in. Collection of poems and sermons by the 14th-century Japanese Buddhist monk. Item Price
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![The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/641/153/1338153641.0.m.jpg)
The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
by WANDYCZ, Piotr S.
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- 1992
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London: Routledge, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 330pp; illus. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new. Item Price
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![Wind Bell, Vol. XIX, no. 1, Summer, 1985](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/557/1317557262.0.m.jpg)
Wind Bell, Vol. XIX, no. 1, Summer, 1985
by [BUDDHISM] BAILEY, Peter et al, eds
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- 1985
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[San Francisco]: Zen Center, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 51pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Brief biopredation to upper cover slightly touching text without loss of sense, some uneven toning, else Very Good. Contents include lectures by Dainin Katagiri-roshi, Tenshin (Reb) Anderson, Sojun Mel Weitsman, and Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. Item Price
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![Twelve Poems of Menke Katz](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/662/155/1308155662.0.m.jpg)
Twelve Poems of Menke Katz
by KATZ, Menke
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- 1967
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Tokyo: Subterraneans Books, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 15pp. Inscribed on title page: "For my great friend Harry Smith / Menke," dated 1967 and with a small doodle of some flowers. Small scuff and a bit of dusting to wrappers, else Near Fine. Twelve short pieces by the Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet. Bilingual text in facing English… Read more about this item Item Price
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![30 Years Later from Around the World People Will Gather to Demand: No More Hiroshima's! No More Nagasaki's!](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/046/456/1307456046.0.m.jpg)
30 Years Later from Around the World People Will Gather to Demand: No More Hiroshima's! No More Nagasaki's!
by PEOPLES ACTION UNION
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- n.d. but 1975?]
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[Los Angeles: Peoples Action Union, n.d. but 1975?]. First Edition. Narrow octavo; single sheet folded into eight-panelled pamphlet; illus. and text printed in brown. Light wear from handling, extremities a bit toned, else Very Good. Brochure promoting the upcoming 21st World Conference Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of March,… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Tohoku: The Scotland of Japan](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/437/263/1303263437.0.m.jpg)
Tohoku: The Scotland of Japan
by NOSS, Rev. Christopher
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- 1918
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Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States, 1918. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); blue cloth, stamped in gilt; 292pp, frontis., 36 plates, 2 fold-out maps. Spine and portion of rear panel sunned; dampstains and light soiling; leading corners bumped. Textblock top edge stained blue, faded; damping and toning throughout; pastedowns wrinkled. Else, Very Good.
The… Read more about this item Item Price
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