Kanda Press (36 results)

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: GOOD. NONE. 1st edition; 154 clean, unmarked, tight pages with light tanning; stain along fore-edge of first few pages; front flyleaf and title page are loose; lightly penciled price, note, and initials on upper front flyleaf; foxing/spotting inside front and back covers and flyleaves; tanning and spotting on outer edges of textblock; cover has light shelf and corner wear, rubbing, and a small white splatter on upper rear edge.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 371 pp.+ Photo Plt at Frontis (With Tissue Guard) & 31 Other Photo plts, Color Illus e.p., Blue Hardback, VG.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 204 pages. 6.00x0.46x9.00 inches. In Stock.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Blue Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. No Edition Stated. 371 Clean, Unmarked Pages. Green Cloth Lettered In Light Green, Color Illustrated Endpapers. No Inscriptions. Previous Owner's Small Stamp On Front Pastedown. Covers Clean And Bright. Spine Very Slightly Age Toned. Black and White Photographs (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, no dj. Slight shelf-wear.

Condition: Gut. Erstauflage / First edition. Bll. + Frontispz-Foto mit Schutzpapier + XIV + 242 S. inkl. Index, u. mit s/w. Tafeln mit Fotos. Papier sauber, nur minimal nachvergilbt. Schnitt geringf. gebräunt. 1 Seite (Inhaltsverz.) mit e. winzigen Riss unten (nicht störend). * Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC (Gebor. 3. März 1892 Gest. 26. Mai 1970) war ein britischer Offizier, Autor, Journalist und Reisender (Paris, Algerien, Java, Australien, Japan, Europa.) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 375 Gr.-8° O(Dunkelblau)-GanzLnw. (cloth) mit gelbfarbig.-Titelung. Geringf. Gebrauchsspuren. Gut erhalten.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later edition. Translated from the Japanese by Glenn W. Shaw. Tan cloth, black lettering and colorful floral illustration on front and spine, top edge gilt. Some pages unopened, corners lightly worn, else very good in a very good dustwrapper with extremities worn and chipped. A story of Japanese Buddhism first published in Japan in 1918.…

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. (1934). Some offsetting to front and back end papers. Photo illustrated. Folding map in back. An odd defense of Japanese expansion into other areas of the Far East, published in the same year as Japan's brutal invasion into Manchuria. 218 pages, including index.…

4-hole Japanese Binding. Condition: Near Fine. ".being an illustrated commentary on the Girls' Festival and the Boys' Fetival." 141 pages, 4 color plates, smaller b/w photos on nearly every page. Purple taffeta over cover boards, bound with four-hole binding, white knotted cords; red paper title glued to front cover.; 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 ''.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Hokuseido Press, Kanda, Japan. 1951 or 1952. Hardcover. This book has been rebound in library buckram. The foreword is dated 1951 but without the DJ it could be a 1952 printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine; with impression indentations on the text block from the thick buckram binding. No DJ. Green Buckram boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean unmarked interior. 133 pp 8vo. Given by the great American Western writer, this book is a collection of lectures given by the author at Keio University in Tokyo over a two week period where he discussed the specific problems in American writing. Due to the audience's language skills the talks are generalizations intended to mark out some of the boundaries of contemporary American writing especially fiction and to give a background on literary history. A clean very presentable copy.…

Hardcover. Octavo, xix, 236, 20 pages. In Good condition with a Fair minus dust jacket. Spine is yellow with white print on black banner. Dust jacket has edgewear with tears at spine ends and flap corners, small portions torn away from edges, toning to spine, shelf wear. Boards in blue cloth with yellow paper title label. Light wear to spine caps. Text block has has gilt top edge, maps on endpapers, spine break at page 164, light age-toning to paper. Illustrated with b&w frontispiece.Text in English and Chinese. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R (ND-R). 1371031. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, blue linen, paper label front and spine, gte, map endpapers, 236p + 20p. Spine label soiled and chipped. Gift inscription dated 1938 on half title.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Schutzumschlag. Erste Ausgabe. xvi, 371 S. Orig.-Leinenband mit Schutzumschlag. Mit kleinem chinesischem Stempel, sonst schönes, gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ in. - 7¾ in. Hardcover with dust jacket, 1935 Edition with no subsequent printings listed. Inscribed by author on ffep. Minor foxing to endpapers, binding solid and strong, dust jacket moderately chipped along crown, mild chipping to lower spine end, not price-clipped. Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. Signed & Inscribed By Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Original green cloth titled in gilt. First thus. Black topstain. Ribbon marker (detached) mild corner wear, hint of foxing. Tipped-in colophon in Japanese at rear. Pp. [ii], v, [1], ii, 533, [1], xv (index); Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. far eastern edition with revisions revised edition of "A Journalist in C hina", pubblished in 1934 fine copy, no DJ.

12mo, pp. [6], v-xix, [3], 236, 20; title page printed in red and black, parallel title in Chinese, map endpapers, frontispiece; original blue cloth, printed paper labels on upper cover and spine; a very good, sound, and clean copy. The book was first published in 1922 and included at that time 39 poems of Li Po's first translated into English. This "Orient Edition" reprints those poems as well as 85 others, and includes biographical notes on Li Po by Chinese authors, and a bibliography covering Chinese texts, and translations of Li Po.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Stab binding, purple silk over boards, bound in yellow rope, with tassels extending onto front board, printed red label mounted to front board; in publisher's box; 4to (268x190mm); pp. 141, with color frontis., 3 color plates, 2 folding b/w plates, b/w illustrations in text. Previous owner's bookplate on verso of FFEP, adhesive stain somewhat visible through recto of FFEP; otherwise internally nice and clean, and binding is fine. Box is broken and age-toned.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Printing. 140 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. First and only printing, a scarce Hearn title. 10 plate and color frontispeice.Photos available upon request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Apparent First Edition. It is hoped this book will be found light to read, easy to absorb, and nourishing to the mind. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 242 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, yellow topstain, f.e. deckled, photo frontis w/ tissue guard; front hinge cracked, frontis/tissue and title are shaken and laid in, a.e. lt tanned. Cover: navy, yellow titles front/spine; lt shelfwear, extrems a bit worn, several lt faint scratched, 2 sm faint spots to spine.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. xvii, 195 pp., Grey, decorative cloth binding with top edge gilt. Some marks to the boards and significant darkening to the spine with slight wear to the ends. Internally clean with publisher's plate tipped on to the rear free paper. Striking design to the front board. Active in the mid to late nineteenth century, Futabatei Shemi's work, The Drifting Cloud, is often considered Japan's first modern novel. 8vo.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A scarce richly illustrated first edition of this work offering vivid impressions of 1920s Osaka from an American writer embedded in pre-war Japanese urban life, complete with the very scarce original slipcase. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.First edition.Complete with the very scarce original slipcase.Richly illustrated with a colour frontispiece, numerous monochrome photographs, and illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.A literary sketchbook of impressions, scenes, and observations of everyday life in Osaka, a record of "things seen, heard, read, remembered, imagined and enjoyed" during five years" residence in the city.Japanese colophon slip tipped in to rear free endpaper. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Externally, very smart. Bookplate of Cliff Parfit to front paste down. Slight offsetting to rear endpapers. Previous bookseller's discreet label to front paste down, partially removed. Japanese colophon slip tipped in to rear free endpaper. Slipcase, generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities with slight loss and chipping to paper. Small perforation to tail of spine. Slight rubbing and discolouration to paper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two very minor handling marks to first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. None Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 974+48 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Top corners bumped. DJ has wear to edges w/ mild chipping to corners. Spine sunned. Lightly soiled. Comes in original box. Contents nice.

Clothbound. Condition: Very Good +. First Printing. vi + 533 pages + xv. Index. Edited by Ryuji Tanabe, Teisaburo Ochiai and Ichiro Nishizaki. Dark green clothbound.