Paperback. Condition: Good. Original brown silk, paper title. Stab binding. Wear to edges, pages browned, inscription on verso front flyleaf.
Language: English
Published by Yoshikawa, Yokohama, 1936
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 345 Illustrations, A Few With Color, Tissue Guarded Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Vi + 204 Pp. Navy Blue Silk, String Tied. Apparent First Printing, Copyright 1936. Very Good- Light Usage, Pages Browning, Tiny Frays Of Silk At Tips, Lowest Loop Of String Binding Is Broken And Loose, Binding Intact.
Language: English
Published by Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita / Hakone, 1949
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Slipcase. 355 Illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. 200 Pp. + 2 Pp Index. Beige Silk Printed In Brown And Green Over Covered Paper Wrappers, String Bound. Fine, No Wear Or Marks.Slipcase With Light Wear, But Paper Label Is Frayed At Edges.
Published by Yoshikawa, Yokohama, 1936
Seller: roschobell, Lilburn, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound in limp paper covered in brown raw silk tied with silk cord. Title pasted to cover. Contents a little foxed, 345 illustrations,previous owner's name on title page.
Published by Yamagata Press, Yokohoma, 1946
Seller: BROWNVILLE EDUCATION CENTER FOR THE ARTS, BROWNVILLE, NE, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Travel book printed by the Fujiya Hotel LTD. Booklet describes customs, Traditions of Japanese people. Paper wrapper for dust jacket. Has slit on front and corners are worn. Color is good. Cover and string binding is tight.
Published by FUJIYA HOTEL
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
PAPERBACK BROWN. Condition: VG. JACKET: WORN. Soft and fragile DJ DATE PUBLISHED: EDITION: 400.
Published by Yoshikawa, Yokohama, 1936
Flexible cloth. Condition: Very Good+. B & W drawings and Graphics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages; [1936] Yoshikawa. Bound in silk covered card stock covers with side sewn binding. Solid clean copy illustrated throughout with b&w drawings, photos and graphics. Book is VG or better.
Language: English
Published by Yoshikawa, Yokohama, Japan, 1936
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
Association Member: MABA
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Title Continues: Besides Places Away From Well-Trodden Trails, and Numerous Other Subjects. Frontis-piece, with tissue guard intact, iii, [4], 204pp, [1], printed on double pages [Japanese style], bound in silk over paper, paper label on front cover intact [not chipped], single thread binding [Japanese style], with binding and hinges tight. Contents include History, Legends, Samurai, Music, Arts, Women & Dress, Customs, Superstitions, Charms, Festivals, Theater, Puppets, Religion, Architecture, Geisha Songs, Swords and much more. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with b/w photographs. Covers show corner wear, small hole to cloth on front cover. In a protective mylar sleeve.
Language: English
Published by Miyanoshita. Hakone, Japan
Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.
Cloth - Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Volume I is the 1946 fifth printing, and Volume II is the 1947 third printing. 200 pages with 355 illustrations, and 200 pages with 389 illustrations. Scattered moisture stains with tide marks, though there is no sticking of the leaves. Penciled name and address on the blank front free end leaf of Volume II. Jackets with chips and wear a long edges, as well as some moisture stains. Both volumes remains tight and contents are otherwise generally clean. All text and images remain clear.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Hand-sewn silk wrappers. Condition is VERY GOOD ; silk a little sunned, very clean. Binding tight and text unmarked. Trav. Stax.
Published by YAMAGATA PRESS, JAPAN, 1946
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. FIFTH PRINTING. INCLUDED IS A FUJIYA HOTEL NATURAL HOT SPRINGS LABEL.
Condition: Good. Good condition. No date stated. 2nd edition. Volume 1. Slightly dampstained. (Japan, Cultural Traditions).
Language: English
Published by Yoshikawa., 1936
Seller: Robert F Butterworth, Lytham St.Annes, LANCS, United Kingdom
US$ 24.84
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st ed? iii.204pp. Illus throughout. A very detailed pre-war guide to Japan with much of the material adapted from the author's writings for the Japanese Government Railways. Unusually bound with a mainly bare outer spine and bound with string. Written on very thin paper but each page has been deliberately double bound. There is a little creasing and the odd mark but overall VG. Text is in English.
Published by Yoshikawa, Yokohama 1936, 1936
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
paper wrapper covered in green cloth with stitch binding, 204pp illus, VG-(sl wear to extrems, sl sunned & soiled, text sl soiled).
Published by Yamagata Press, Yokohama, 1946
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Two volumes : illustrations. Paper wrappers worn, short tears at head and foot of spine, spine labels edgeworn; contents unmarked. 570 grams.
Published by Yoshikawa, Yokohama, 1936
Seller: Hanshan Tang Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Stitched. Silk cover. Condition: Good, unless otherwise noted. 23x16cm, vi, 204 pp. 345 illustrations, some in colour. // Describes many customs, festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese. An amazing assembly of facts and information on varied aspects of Japan in the 1930s. A lovely thing but sadly with waterstaining throughout and priced as a reading copy.
Published by Fujiya Hotel, Ltd. ( 1946 ), Myanoshita, Japan, 1946
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Flexible covers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Second Edition. Octavo, 200 pages, Japanese binding in silk, with a printed, paper chemise with the title printed on the flap, worn, torn. NOTE: herein are two different paper types, white and brown (suggesting that the brown paper may have been surplus from the 1937 editioin). Here are descriptions of many of the custom, manners, ceremonies, festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese besides numerous other subjects. 355 .illustrations. NOTE: this work first appeared in 1934, and through 1937, and calling this 1946 appearnce its 5th printing; but, its compiler, Mr. Yamaguchi, the manager of the Fujiya Hotel, refers to this as the second edition. How much was it revised for the post-war tourist trade?
Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Intact and clean throughout. Pages with some small corner bends and minor edgewear. Cover cloth with some fading and some chipping and wear to edges. Some smudging to paper title label. Cloth starting to separate from paper on at lower rear corner. Easily repaired with proper adhesive. 204 pages and 345 illustrations, some in color.
Published by Fujiya Hotel, Ltd, 1937
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Includes sleeve. The cover is worn and tanned with the bottom corner edge of the front cover hinge being creased. Sting binding. The top and bottom edges of the text block is slightly tanned, visible on the page margins. The front end page leaf has ink signatures from the previous owners, but otherwise all other pages are clean and bright.
Published by Fujiya Hotel, Japan, 1936
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
Frederic De Garis for H.S.K. Yamaguchi We Japanese: Being Descriptions of Many of the Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Festivals, Arts and Crafts of the Japanese Besides Numerous Other Subjects 3rd Printing, 1936, Fujiya Hotel, Japan, Very Good condition, in Good original holder.
Published by Fujiya Hotel, Japan, 1935
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second Printing. 2nd printing softcover. Original Japanese sewn binding. Near fine; hint of spotting, bookplate and PO stamps. In the original cloth chemise with ivory toggles. The chemise is sunned/foxed and lightly worn, and the label is toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages.
Published by Yoshikawa (1936), Other, 1936
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, 204pp., 345 illustrations- some in color, contents show some light toning, navy cloth over paper wraps is slightly toned, scuffed, else very good.
Paperback. Condition: Good. 1936 paperback, average external wear, a little staining, pages yellowed with some creases and minor blemishes.
Published by Yamagata Press, Japan, 1947
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
Flexible cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Seventieth Printing. Both books are in pristine condition. Volume II: Being Descriptions of the Characteristics, History, Legendry, Tradition, Drama, Images, Shrines, Temples, Customs, Manners, Besides Numerous Other Subjects. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages.
Published by Fujiya Hotel Limited, 1947
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Two volume set of soft cover books in Japanese design outer wrappers - seventh printing, Nov. 1947. Illustrated with mostly black and white drawings/reproductions. Text in English with some Japanese. In excellent condition. Bookseller since 1995 (ULBDRM#3-R) rareviewbooks.
Published by Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, Japan, 1934
First Edition
Flexible cloth in folding case. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. B & W drawings and Graphics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages; 1934 Fujiya Hotel. 1st edition, 1st printing. Bound in silk covered card stock covers with side sewn binding and encased in the publisher's folding cloth covered case with bone clasps and paper title label to the closed side. Solid clean copy illustrated throughout with b&w drawings, photos and graphics. The folding case is blanched and faded to the closed "spine" edge and a little shelf soiled to sides, with trace damp evidence to top edges. Book is VG or better and case G++ or better.
Published by Fujiya Hotel, Ltd., 1937
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1937. Original decorative cloth covers with string binding; laid inside tri-fold cloth covered boards with pasted on spine titles; cloth covered boards are worn and faded; heaviest wear along edges and spine; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; edges of cloth covers are worn with some fraying; text pages are in very good condition; illustrations in black and white; no internal markings; 200 pages.
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Japanese stab-binding in silk cloth-covered stiff silvery/gray decorative paper wraps.Title laid on front cover and spine of slipcase. Ex-library stamps inside, but no marks on cover. No date indicated - circa 1930's. In tattered ex-library marked blue slipcase, torn at top of spine, with bone closures. Printed on double pages of rice paper flecked with sparkly mica. Black and white illustrations with occasional spots of color. Corner of first blank page cut out. Keywords: Japan, Stab binding, Silk, Mica, Japanese.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Language: German
Published by Yokohama : Yamagata, 1935
Seller: Antiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany
Association Member: GIAQ
Cloth. Condition: Gut. 2nd pr. 200 p. ; num. ill. Good. Softcover with linen covering in light-edged cloth folder. Cover shows mild wear. Clean but slightly foxed pages. Note of ownership. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 490.