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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition. Volume One 1833-1856, volume two 1857-1870. Original cloth, gilt lettering and motifs. VG.

Half Leather. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Volume III ONLY. 308 pages. Half brown leather over spine and corners, and brown cloth over boards. Raised spine bands. Gilt lettering on black leather spine labels, and other gilt decoration. Marbled end leaves. Book plate on front paste down. It appears that a frontispiece has been removed, and the title page is partially detached. Title page is laid in place and remains in good condition. Volume remains tight and shows only minimal other use/wear.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains [xxviii] 272 printed pages of text. This is a most important new work on Emperor Hirohito by one of Japan's leading historians, Ikuhiko Hata. Following the untimely death of Marius B. Jansen (Emeritus Professor, University of Princeton) in December 2000, who had been actively collaborating with the author and translator of the original Japanese edition ("Hirohito Tenno itsutsu no ketsudan", first published in 1987 and republished in 1994), it was inevitable that there would be a delay in publication of the English edition, which is finally now available. In his extended Foreword as editor, referring to the nature of Hirohito's power, Jansen states: 'We are left with puzzles that will probably never be resolved. Clearly, as Professor Hata and others have shown, the Emperor Hirohito had immense power, but the condition of retaining it was judicious restraint in exercising it'. In offering a view on the merits of Hata's research, Jansen points to the hitherto unknown plots (in parallel but unrelated) by both the Army and Navy to preserve, and if necessary resuscitate, the imperial line in the event the victors decided to depose Hirohito. Jansen also points to the merits of Hata's particular focus on the contribution Hirohito made to Japan in its post-war relations with the United States. Jansen added substantive notes to help place the author's material in historical and historiographical perspective. The book, which is not a biography or a general history of the Showa era, focuses on five decisions taken by Emperor Hirohito, which the author considers the key turning points of his reign: these concern the 26 February 1936 insurrection of young army officers, the termination of the Pacific War, the post-war constitution, the issue of abdication and the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781905246359 JAPAN (History & Culture).

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains [xxviii] 272 printed pages of text. This is a most important new work on Emperor Hirohito by one of Japan's leading historians, Ikuhiko Hata. Following the untimely death of Marius B. Jansen (Emeritus Professor, University of Princeton) in December 2000, who had been actively collaborating with the author and translator of the original Japanese edition ("Hirohito Tenno itsutsu no ketsudan", first published in 1987 and republished in 1994), it was inevitable that there would be a delay in publication of the English edition, which is finally now available. In his extended Foreword as editor, referring to the nature of Hirohito's power, Jansen states: 'We are left with puzzles that will probably never be resolved. Clearly, as Professor Hata and others have shown, the Emperor Hirohito had immense power, but the condition of retaining it was judicious restraint in exercising it'. In offering a view on the merits of Hata's research, Jansen points to the hitherto unknown plots (in parallel but unrelated) by both the Army and Navy to preserve, and if necessary resuscitate, the imperial line in the event the victors decided to depose Hirohito. Jansen also points to the merits of Hata's particular focus on the contribution Hirohito made to Japan in its post-war relations with the United States. Jansen added substantive notes to help place the author's material in historical and historiographical perspective. The book, which is not a biography or a general history of the Showa era, focuses on five decisions taken by Emperor Hirohito, which the author considers the key turning points of his reign: these concern the 26 February 1936 insurrection of young army officers, the termination of the Pacific War, the post-war constitution, the issue of abdication and the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781905246359 JAPAN (History & Culture).

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains [xxviii] 272 printed pages of text. This is a most important new work on Emperor Hirohito by one of Japan's leading historians, Ikuhiko Hata. Following the untimely death of Marius B. Jansen (Emeritus Professor, University of Princeton) in December 2000, who had been actively collaborating with the author and translator of the original Japanese edition ("Hirohito Tenno itsutsu no ketsudan", first published in 1987 and republished in 1994), it was inevitable that there would be a delay in publication of the English edition, which is finally now available. In his extended Foreword as editor, referring to the nature of Hirohito's power, Jansen states: 'We are left with puzzles that will probably never be resolved. Clearly, as Professor Hata and others have shown, the Emperor Hirohito had immense power, but the condition of retaining it was judicious restraint in exercising it'. In offering a view on the merits of Hata's research, Jansen points to the hitherto unknown plots (in parallel but unrelated) by both the Army and Navy to preserve, and if necessary resuscitate, the imperial line in the event the victors decided to depose Hirohito. Jansen also points to the merits of Hata's particular focus on the contribution Hirohito made to Japan in its post-war relations with the United States. Jansen added substantive notes to help place the author's material in historical and historiographical perspective. The book, which is not a biography or a general history of the Showa era, focuses on five decisions taken by Emperor Hirohito, which the author considers the key turning points of his reign: these concern the 26 February 1936 insurrection of young army officers, the termination of the Pacific War, the post-war constitution, the issue of abdication and the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781905246359 JAPAN (History & Culture).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1879). X+ 544 +536 pages. NearFine Hardcover (CadetBlue cloth, Gilt spine titles, no DJs). Only Hint of wear to the ends of the spine. Clean unmarked throughout. Strong tight original bindings, perfect hinges. 7.6"x5.3". be21120.

1st Edition. Hb original brown cloth, 2 Volume Set, viii,333pp photo portraitfrontis 2+16pp publishers advertisements at rear & 331pp Bookplate of Thomas Fair to front pastedowns of both volumes. Light rubbing and bumping to boards o/w A Vg 2 Volume set in publishers original cloth. Letters of essayist and Poet James Henry Leigh Hunt to Keats , Shelley and Thomas Moore etc.

Half Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Volume II ONLY. 464 pages. Half brown leather over spine and corners, and brown cloth over boards. Raised spine bands. Gilt lettering on black leather spine labels, and other gilt decoration. Marbled end leaves. Book plate on front paste down. Volume remains tight and shows only minimal other use/wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition of Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot 1861, edited by Norma B. Cuthbert, with bookplate signed by Herbert Hoover, Jr., eldest son of President Herbert Hoover. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, xxii, [2], 161pp. Blue textured cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Solid binding. Toning to endpapers and text pages, offsetting to pages 122 and 123, with no other marks or notations. Light wear to spine ends and corners. In publisher's dust jacket, retail price of $3.00 on front flap, toning to spine, chipping and tears to top/bottom edges, wear along flap folds and spine edges, faint dampstain along lower edge of back panel. Presentation bookplate of the Lincoln Club signed by Herbert Hoover, Jr. on front pastedown endpaper. Signed.

1872 - 1882, various printings. (Leather binding) Very good. 398, 462, 552, 463, 464, 308pp. Two 3-volume sets numbered as one. Finely bound in tan morocco with decorative borders in gilt and blind, the spines in 6 compartments with gilt decoration (two compartments with red leather labels), the edges and inner dentelles tooled. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon page markers, side-notes, indices. Vols 1, 2 and 3 have a frontispiece with tissue guard and one plate each, illustrations, and bear the legend "Forster" at the foot of the spine. Vols 4 & 5 have photograph frontispieces (each with a small chip on the bottom left corner). The last 3 volumes have the legend "Daughter" at the foot of the spine. A presentable set with minor shelfwear marred only by Vol 6 having a signature sprung and having 3 leaves reattached but worn at the edges. There is an armorial bookplate in each volume. A very handsome set in mylar covers. Includes Mamie Dickens, and Georgina Hogarth (The Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by His Sister-In-Law and His Eldest Daughter (Vols IV-VI)) & John Forster (The Life of Charles Dickens (Vols I-III)). (Sets).