Broken Thread by Piggott (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xix, 424pp, photos, maps, notes. Anglo-Japanese diplomacy between 1880's and the Second World War. Book is clean and tight and wrapper is light wear, price clipped with minor chipping.

Condition: fair to good, fair to poor. 424, illus., maps, appendices, glossary, index, foxing inside boards and flyleaves and to fore-edge, DJ soiled, worn, and wrinkled. Several tears to DJ and several small pieces missing. Anglo-Japanese relations are the "Thread" running through this book, which considers the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and World War II.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A very decent example of this elusive title. The book has no issues of note and the d / w. is complete but has a few small repairs.

1950, 424 pp. Red cloth with protected and unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket spine slightly sun faded with little edge wear. Some shelf-wear and damage to paper edges. Pictures on request.

8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 90 plates on 32, and 3 full-page illustrations and 4 maps (one full-page) in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth gilt, gilt back, small stain at lower margin of upper board else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately age-soiled and frayed with minor loss at upper edge of front panel. Piggott was a mainstay of Britain's relations with Japan for over a quarter of a century; his classic and detailed autobiography covers the progress of Anglo-Japanese diplomacy from the 1880s to WWII. The many fascinating photographs are largely from the author's private collection and therefore otherwise unpublished; they include valuable early studies of Japanese diplomatic and military groups and personalities later pre-eminent in WWII. SCARCE.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). A unique association copy of this Japanese edition of F. S. G. Piggott's military memoir, with his presentation inscription to his daughter Juliet Piggott. The author's presentation copy to his daughter, Juliet Piggott, with his inscription to the rear free endpaper dated 1951.A very scarce Japanese edition of this memoir from Francis Stewart Gilderoy Piggott, a British Army Officer who served as the British Military Attache in Tokyo and was the army's overseer of military intelligence in East Asia.Anglo-Japanese relations is a recurring topic through this book, an aspect of Piggott that was met with controversy among many his peers. Also discusses the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and World War II.Translated by S. Hasegawa.Piggott's daughter, Juliet, wrote a number of children's books inspired by much of her childhood spent in Japan, including 'Japanese Mythology' and 'The Story of Japan'.This edition is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and sixteen monochrome plates. In the original rough cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with slight fading to the spine and minor bumping to the extremities. Tissue-guarded ex libris bookplate of one Cliff Parfit to the rear pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Contemporary annotations inscribed to the title pages. Very Good Indeed. book.