Boston Book Company

Authenticated Contemporary Portrait of Shakespeare

(SHAKESPEARE) · 1932

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

1932. (SHAKESPEARE). AN AUTHENTICATED CONTEMPORARY SELF PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE. By Tarcy Kingman. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. Small 4to. red cloth. Soiling of cloth. Good. .

Chita: A Memory of Last Island

HEARN, Lafcadio · 1917

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,747)

1917. HEARN, Lafcadio. CHITA: A Memory of Last Island. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1918]. Later printing. 8vo. green cloth. Ink ownership. Slight soiling at boards. Very good. .

Sacco-Vanzetti: The Murder and the Myth

(SACCO & VANZETTI) · 1960

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

1960. (SACCO-VANZETTI). SACCO-VANZETTI: THE MURDER AND THE MYTH. By Robert H. Montgomery. New York: The Devon-Adair Company, 1960. 8vo. black cloth. First edition. Slight soiling at boards. Fine, in price-clipped, slightly nicked dust jacket. .

History of the Missions in Japan and Paraguay

CADDELL, Cecilia Mary · 0

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.83 | ¥19,156)

18. CADDELL, Cecilia Mary. HISTORY OF THE MISSIONS IN JAPAN AND PARAGUAY. New York: D. & J. Sadleir & Co. [n.d.]. 8vo. xvii + 180pp.; iv + 102pp. Front hinge cracked, front flyleaf missing. Just a touch of foxing or staining at edge of text. Rubbing of boards, cloth worn at sp...

Story of a Heathen and His Transformation

READE, H.L. · 1890

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,569)

1890. READE, H.L. THE STORY OF A HEATHEN AND HIS TRANSFORMATION. With illustrations. Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society: Boston, (1890). Inscribed by the author. Small 8vo. brown and tan cloth-covered, pictorial boards; 82 pp. Slight rubbing at boards, just a ...

Mannerhouse

WOLFE, Thomas · 1983

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

1983. WOLFE, Thomas. MANNERHOUSE. A Play in a Prologue and Four Acts. Edited by Joise D. Rubin, Jr. and John L. Idol, Jr. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, (1983). The only printing. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gilt. Fine, in dj. The text for this edition come...

Scroggins

[BIRCH, Reginald B.] · 1904

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

1904. [BIRCH, Reginald B.]. SCROGGINS by John Uri Lloyd. Illustrations and Decorations by Reginald B. Birch. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1904. 8vo. tan cloth birch-patterned pictorial boards, t.e.g. Slight foxing on a few pages, and at endpapers, slight rubbing at spine and front boards,...

Hudson River Bracketed

WHARTON, Edith · 1929

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

1929. WHARTON, Edith. HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1929. First edition. 8vo. blue cloth. Ink ownership. Slight soil, sun to cloth; touch of wear to extremes. Very good. .

Islands and Empires

DODGE, Ernest · 1976

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

1976. DODGE, Ernest S. ISLANDS AND EMPIRES. Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, (1976.) Signed by author. Part of the set "Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion", vol. VII. Illustrated. 8vo. black cloth stamped in...

Japanese Wood Engravings

ANDERSON, William · 1908

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

1908. ANDERSON, William. JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS. New edition. London: Seeley and Co. 1908. 16mo. blue cloth decorated in gilt; 219pp. + ads. Mild wear at boards, else good. .

Jih Pen Hsing Ming Tz'u Tien, Jih Pen Ti Ming Tz'u Tien

(Dictionary of Proper Nouns, Japanese) · 1979

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,132)

1979. [Dictionary of Proper Names, Japanese] JIH PEN HSING MING TZ'UTIEN, JIH PEN TI MING TZ'U TIEN. Peking: 1979, 1982, 1983. 4vols. 8vo. boards with fabricoid spines, gilt. The three volumes of personal and family names are indexed by romanization, kana and radical for ease ...

Selected Writings 1872-1877

HEARN, LAFCADIO · 1979

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

1979. HEARN, Lafcadio. SELECTED WRITINGS, 1872-1877. Edited and Compiled by Wm. S. Johnson. Indianapolis: Woodruff Publications, 1979. An out-of-series copy, it has the colophon page but it is not numbered. This is a collection of Hearn's writings for Cincinnati newspapers. A ...

Bibliographie Des Principales Publications de L'Empire Japonais

(Bulletin de la Maison Franco-Japonaise) · 1941

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

1941. (Bulletin de la Maison Franco-Japonaise) BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS DE L'EMPIRE JAPONAIS. Paris: Geuthner, 1941. Tokyo: N.S.H.K.K. 1941. Tome XII, No. 2-4. Large 8vo. blue cloth-backed, yellow paper covered boards. 373 pages. Good. .

Headmaster

MCPHEE, JOHN · 1966

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

1966. MCPHEE, John. THE HEADMASTER. Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1966). First edition. 8vo, green cloth. This copy has slight wear to the edges, else fine, in a price-clipped dust jacket. .

Jih Pen Hsing Ming Tz'u Tien, Jih Pen Ti Ming Tz'u Tien

(Dictionary of Proper Nouns, Japanese) · 1979

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,132)

1979. [Dictionary of Proper Names, Japanese] JIH PEN HSING MING TZ'UTIEN, JIH PEN TI MING TZ'U TIEN. Peking: 1979, 1982, 1983. 4vols. 8vo. boards with fabricoid spines, gilt. The three volumes of personal and family names are indexed by romanization, kana and radical for ease ...

Japan: Ancient Buddhist Paintings

BUDDHIST ART · 1959

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

1959. (BUDDHIST ART). JAPAN: ANCIENT BUDDHIST PAINTINGS. Preface: Serge Elisseeff. Introduction: Takaaki Matsushita. New York: New York Graphic Society, (1959). Folio-size, white paper-covered boards; 21pp. + 32 color plates. Fine, in a dust jacket with one 3-inch tear. .

Art and Technique of Sumi-E

THOMPSON, Kay Morrissey · 1960

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

1960. THOMPSON, Kay Morrissey. THE ART AND TECHNIQUE OF SUMI-E. Japanese ink-painting as taught by Ukai Uchiyama. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, (1960). First edition. 4to. black cloth; 71pp. This copy is fine, in a slightly soiled acetate wrapper. .

Harper's Bazar

HEARN, Lafcadio · 1885

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

1885. (HEARN, Lafcadio). HARPER'S BAZAR. Vol. XVIII- No.44. New York: Saturday, October 31, 1885. A single periodical containing the Hearn article "The Legend of Tchi-Niu." Ownership. Small tears at edges and a few longer tears at folds, good. .

Treatise on Painting

PAINTING · 1880

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

1880. (PAINTING). A TREATISE ON PAINTING. In four parts. By John Burnett. New edition. London: Henry Sotheran & Co. 1880. 4to. red cloth; 73pp. + 22pp. + 45pp. + 61pp. with 25 b&w and 8 hand-colored plates. Spine detaching, binding shaken, ex-library. As is. .

Transactions

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN · 1926

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

1926. (ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN). TRANSACTIONS. December 1926. Second Series Vol.III. With Frederick Starr's "Japanese Toys and Toy-Collectors." 8vo. blue cloth-backed, grey paper-covered boards; 179pp. Slight soiling and wear, else very good. .