Very clean white cloth boards with purple lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 255 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight wear at top and bottom spine edge, slight vertical crease to front panel, no chips. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. The story of a young girl growing up under the American occupation of Japan but coming of age during the tumul... more information

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First Edition. Very clean red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fading or fraying; light bump to base of spine. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean blue endpapers; small previous owner name and date at top corner of title page. 314 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Typed review and related news clippings laid in. 8vo. World Wa... more information

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First Edition ("First published in 1959 by the Viking Press" on copyright page). Clean orange-brown cloth boards with red decoration on cover, red lettering on spine. hint of very slight wear to spine corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 176 pgs. with illustrations by Kazue Mizumura. Clean illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped, has tiny chips at top and bottom spine edges, a few ve... more information

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Yellow cloth boards with black japanese lettering on cover, black lettering in English on spine. Slight wear to spine corners. Binding is tight & square, pages are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. 314 pgs. Dustjacket has some edge chipping and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Fiction. ... more information

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New York: Macmillan, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. First Edition, with "Set up, electrotyped, and published April, 1904" on copyright page. Clean beautifully decorated blue cloth oards with unchipped stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Light surface wear to spine corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Two previous owner names at top edge of front free endpaper. Beautiful color frontis i... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Stated First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean unclipped jacket. Very clean beige cloth boards with small metallic decoration on cover, blue metallic lettering and small decoration on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean brown top-stained upper page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 236 pp. + 3 pages about t... more information

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Clean decorated beige cloth boards with colorful dragon illustration on cover and spine (spine illustration slightly faded), gold lettering on spine. Slight wear at base of spine and to one corner tip. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Beautiful color frontis illustration with clean tissue guard; five additional black & white plates by Gertrude McDaniel. Previous owner name neatly penned on front free endpaper, small ink-stamp on front fixed endpaper. Pages and edges are clean, no foxing o... more information

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First Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean unclipped jacket. As new condition. Translation from the Japanese by Yukiko Tanaka. Very clean black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 161 pp. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped (21.95 on front inside flap). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. ... more information

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Very clean dark blue boards with red spine, bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean photo-illustrated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 398 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. The story of the fate of eight American fighter pilots who were captured by the Japanese during World War II. ... more information

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Three volumes by H. M. Field. "Among the Holy Hills" was published in 1884, the other two volumes in 1885. All have clean green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. No fraying or wear. Bindings are tight, no loose pages or cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Gilt top edges. Dark brown endpapers. No names, writing or marks. "Among the Holy Hills" has color map frontis with tissue guard. Very clean, solid and collectible condition. 8vo. Travel. ... more information

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Clean illustrated boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Neatly penned previous owner name on front fixed endpaper. 61 pgs. Page decorations by Jeff Hill. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 12mo. Poetry. ... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Kenkichi Sugimoto, illustrator. First Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean unclipped original jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with small black illustration on cover, bright orange cloth on spine and 1/3 of boards with gold lettering on spine, blind-stamped Japanese characters on left front board edge. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean ... more information

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Stated First Edition, signed by author. Clean beige cloth boards with brown lettering on spine. Very light surface wear to corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. 316 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has edge wear and closed edge tears, small edge chips. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Biography. ... more information

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Clean green marbled boards with clean yellow spine, green title box on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Red top-stained page edges. 319 pgs. Page decorations by Lorraine Combs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, hint of fading to spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Re-issue (originally published in France, with first U.S. edition published in 1927) of a novel centering on a festive outing ... more information

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Gray boards with white cloth spine, gold lettering on cover and spine, red stamped Japanese design on front board. Slight wear to two corner tips. Hint of very light soiling. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard (from a painting by the author). 250 pgs. Illustrated. Translated from the Japanese by Masujiro Honda and Alice M. Bacon. 8vo. Japan. ... more information

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Clean green boards with beige cloth spine, black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Neatly penned previous owner name on front free endpaper. 246 pgs. Illustrated with drawings. Dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, with a couple of small very faint stains. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. "Fascinating real-life stories of present-day Japan--its beauty, hardships, graciousness, determination, romance." -( from fro... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Dust jacket. Genjiro Yeto, Illustrator. Green decorated cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine (cherry blossoms falling to the ground). Light soiling, spot of wear to one corner tip, light surface wear to spine corners. Short closed tear at top center binding cloth edge. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Previous owner name neatly penned on front free endpaper. Color frontis illustration wi... more information

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Clean black cloth boards with red lettering on spine. Slight wear at top and bottom spine edges. Binding is tight & square, some cracking to paper at front hinge. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers illustrated with maps. 264 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Dustjacket is price clipped, soiled, with small edge chips and closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Author secretly explored Japan's mysterious islands during World War II, includ... more information

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Very clean red boards with black cloth spine, bright gold lettering on spine. Very little wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. Clean maps on endpapers. 345 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 vo.. Fiction. ... more information

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First Edition. 1922. Publisher; Boni & Liveright. Blue cloth boards with red lettering and Japanese lettering on cover and spine (lettering bright and unchipped). Boards are clean and bright with small area of very faint soiling on rear board. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with very faint water mark to upper corner of a few pages. No names, writing or bookplates. Decorated endpapers (reviews of book). 320 pgs. SCARCE dustj... more information

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