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Tokyo: Sunjusha, 1925. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Octavo, wraps. Four hole side-stitch, bound with white string. 11 unpaginated black and white plates with tissue paper + 39pp. Signed on the title page by the translator, Timothy Yoshitaro Negishi, a long- tenured professor at St. Paul's University in Tokyo. Good (+) condition, with moderate wear and a soft bump to the top fore-corner of the textblock. Only a few tatters remain of the paper strip which apparently once covered the spine. A concise and authoritative introduction to the various aspects of Noh drama, by one of the principal figures in the Japanese Noh revival of the early 20th century.

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Presentation copy of this novel by the 20th century Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue (1907-1991), signed and inscribed by him to American photographer Carl Mydans (1907-2004), who is notable for his documentation of World War II in the South Pacific and Europe. In 1941, while on assignment for Life magazine in the Philippines, Mydans and his wife were captured by Japanese forces and spent two years in captivity. Following the war, he worked as the head of Time-Life's Tokyo bureau. Third printing. Octavo, 8-1/2 x 5 in. White cloth boards blind embossed on front panel; red spine lettering; in dust jacket. 74pp. Signed and inscribed in Japanese by Inoue on the front free end paper. With Mydan's ownership stamp on the opposite pastedown. Light bumping to top corners. Some rubbing/smearing to red spine lettering. Small tear to cloth in rear hinge where a sharp edge of what looks like internal adhesive has rubbed through.… Read More

NY: Session Press, 2017. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. NY: Session Press, 2017. First edition, one of 600 copies. Large 4to (13 x 9-1/2 in). Signature-bound in red photo-illustrated wraps. [116]pp. A touch of corner wear, else fine. Signed and inscribed by Ishikawa on the first page. A collection of full-bleed black-and-white photographs of women by the noted Okinawan photographer and activist Mao Ishikawa (b. 1953), including images from her first book, Hot Days in Camp Hansen, as well as unpublished work from 1975-1977; her first US monograph. With a brief essay by Ishikawa in both Japanese and English. A second edition of this title was published in 2022.