The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan
Relatione della Gloriosa Morte di Ventisei Posti in...
Bologna: Her[itiers] di Gio[vanni] Rossi, 1599. Second edition, first Bologna edition. The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan. A rare... Read More
Price: $9,000
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The Spell of Japan.
Boston: L.C. Page & Company 53 Beacon Street, [January, 1932]. Later Printing. Read More
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RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR
Signature clipped from a document [with] an engraving of Biddle.
np: nd. RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR. Commodore James Biddle (1783-1848) made the first attempt to establish formal relations between the United States and Japan in 1846. Biddle, a distinguished naval officer from Philadelphia, and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, set out from New York with two warships, the... Read More
Price: $750
With 26 Fabric Samples
Nippon Hand Weaves in "Kusakizome" Dyes.
Kakio, Kawasaki , Kanagawa: Getumeikai, 1959. One of 200 copies (this #128). With 26 Fabric Samples. Read More
Price: $900
Inscribed, Privately Printed
Across the Meridian and Fragmentary Letters.
[New York: [Privately printed by the De Vinne Press], 1887. Inscribed, Privately Printed. Privately printed account of a world tour by a wealthy family in 1875-76, liberally illustrated with beautiful photographs. The author travelled through China, Japan, Siam, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Greece, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Great Britain. The flyleaf... Read More
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Letters from Japan. A record of Modern Life in the Island Empire.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. New Edition in One Volume. Written by a British Diplomat's wife who spent 3 years in Japan. Read More
Price: $150
Letters from Japan. A record of Modern Life in the Island Empire.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899. First edition. Written by a British Diplomat's wife who spent 3 years in Japan. Read More
Price: $225
Presented to Lou Gehrig from the Children of Japan
Autograph Letter in Japanese calligraphic script to Lou Gehrig, from "the Children of Japan"
[Japan: 1934]. Presented to Lou Gehrig from the Children of Japan. Gehrig barnstormed around Japan in 1934, joined by Babe Ruth, his manager Connie Mack and a dozen other players. Gehrig brought his wife Eleanor, intending the trip to be the first leg of their delayed honeymoon. Gehrig and Ruth... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel Nugent.
London: 2 May 1865. Charles Gordon was one of the most important figures in the British Army in the second half of the nineteenth century. Known variously as "Chinese Gordon", "Gordon Pasha" and "Gordon of Khartoum", in 1860 he took part in the capture of Peking and destruction of the... Read More
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The Japanese Nation in Evolution.
New York: Crowell, [September, 1907]. First edition. Read More
Price: $50
Jiu-Jitsu Combat Tricks. Japanese Feats of Attack and Defence in Personal Encounter.
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. First edition. Read More
Price: $125
Japan and Her People.
Philadelphia: The Johns C. Winston Co. The International Press, [1902]. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the Years 1852, 1853...
New York: D. Appleton. and Company London: Trübner & Co, 1856. First One Volume Edition. This is an abbreviated version of the 3 volume set, without the scientific data. Read More
Price: $500
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First Trade Edition. Read More
Price: $175
Appreciations of Poetry. Selected and Edited by John Erskine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916. First Edition. The text is based on the lecture notes kept by Hearn’s students. Read More
Price: $100
Interpretation of Literature. Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915. First Edition. Read More
Price: $150
Japan An Attempt at Interpretation.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition Later Impression (November 1904). Read More
Price: $100
The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth Bisland.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. First Trade Edition. Read More
Price: $150
William Lyon Phelps’s Copy
Life and Literature by . . . Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917. First Edition. William Lyon Phelps’s Copy. Inscribed to William Lyon Phelps: “To Wm. Lyon Phelps/Christmas 1917/ from Dodd Mead & Co.”. Read More
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Occidental Gleanings by...Sketches and Essays Now First Collected by Albert Mordell.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. Read More
Price: $125
"Out of the East" Reveries and Studies in New Japan.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Japan as It Was and Is.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Comp, 1855. Third thousand. Read More
Price: $200