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Nagaoka, Shogo . HIROSHIMA UNDER ATOMIC BOMB ATTACK
Hiroshima n.d. (c.1955) Peace memorial Museum. Oblong Sm.4to., 17pp. of text in English, 38pp. of photo illustrations, 10pp. of text in Japanese, stringbound wraps. with bight blue silk ties. Cover title in orange with photo illustration of Hiroshima on front. Lain in: small photo illustrated pamphlet titled "Hiroshima Rebuilds" with text in English and Japanese, 16p. Near Fine. Pair: (a24545)
$75.00 (photography) . ASAHI PENTAX PHOTOGRAPHY 1964 INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST
Tokyo 1964. 4to., 225pp., photo plates, cloth. Fine in VG DJ, minor wear at edges, small tear at base of front without loss. In original Near Fine Box which has full-size color photo of young girl's face mounted on front. (a25432)
$45.00 Terasaki, Seizo . PRESIDENT PRESIDENT (signed)
Tokyo (?) 1993. 4to., 91pp. Text in Japanese. Many photo illustrations of Japanese business executives. *Inscribed and signed by Terasaki. Fine in VG plus DJ, slight edge wear and light rubbing on dj. Very Scarce. (a29614)
$65.00 Makita, Masamori (photographer) . SHISEKI MEISHO TENNEN KIENBUTSU ZENPEN KOHEN (HISTORIC AND SCENIC PLACES AND NATURAL MONUMENTS) 2 VOLUMES
Tokyo 1921 Shiseki Meisho Tennen Kinenbutsu Kankokai. 2 volumes. Large 4to., alternate pages have numerous reproductions of photo illustrations taken by Masamori Makita of seemingly every corner of Japan, each of which is accompanied by a full pages of text in Japanese. Attractive and unusual bright chartreuse decorated boards with deep purple silk tips and spines edges. Purple silk stringbound. Two volumes are held in khaki green cloth folding case with two ivory clasps and mounted paper labels. Volumes are VG, in Fairly Good folding case. Folding case has wear and tear on hinges and corners. Valuable and extensive look at pre- World War II Japan. (a41929)
$650.00 (japan) . THE GATEWAY TO JAPAN KANAGAWA 1945-1955
1956 first edition. Dai Nippon Printing Co. In English. 4to., 1116pp., color and monochrome illustrations, hardcover. VG, slight fading of cover cloth, in Fairly Good DJ, (dj a bit worn, top spine end chipped; light soiling.) (a45426)
$29.00 (japan) . PLEASANT CLUB 40TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY ALBUM
1961. In Japanese. Hardcover. Oblong 4to., 119 fullpage photograph illustrations, green cloth. Fine with Good glassine DJ, lightly soiled and worn. (a45913)
$130.00 Seitz, Don C. . SURFACE JAPAN SHORT NOTES OF A SWIFT SURVEY
NY 1911 1st Harper. Hardcover. 4to., 158pp., illustrated with many nice fullpage mounted color photogravures, cloth. Owner signed and dated. Good plus, some wear on board edges and corners, slight bumping of lower corner of leaves. (a46556)
$22.00 Ozaki, S. . PORTRAIT
1939 (from translated date in pencil). Hardcover. Sm.4to., 45pp. (introduction in Japanese) plus 64 fine photo plates of Japanese women with description in Japanese, original printed green cloth with silver lettering on front and on spine. VG, a bit worn at heel of spine and corners, no DJ. Scarce. (a57824)
$270.00Haar, Francis. PICTORIAL JAPAN
(c. 1940s) Printed by Photofinishing Plant, Japan Central Exchange. 4to., (11.5 inches by 9.5 inches), one full page description of contents in English, complete set of 24 fullpage photos of Japan each with a stamp on the verso giving photo number and Photo by Francis Haar. Photographs are held in cloth-covered folding case depicting a colorful assortment of gilt-outlined books with mounted paper label on front. VG, slight edge crease on text sheet, photos are Fine. Album is Fairly Good with some wear and some fraying of cloth at folds and some moisture staining along one edge, lacks one of two original ivory clasps. Beautiful pictures of traditional Japan. (a58476)
$95.00 Koizumi, Sadahiro . ANOTHER SHADOW
Tokyo 1987. 4to, 51pp., full page color photo plates, original printed hardcover. Near Fine, in Good DJ, some wear at edges and spine ends. (a64006)
$34.00 (silk) . RAW SILK INDUSTRY IN JAPAN 2: BREEDING OF SILKWORMS
C. 1950. Published by Department of Sericulture, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Japanese Government. Folio, opens up accordion-style to show 9 matted mounted original photographs (photos 5x7.5 inches), each with English label beneath, of stages of silk production in Japan. All photos mounted on hardcover boards. Photos are of exceptionally fine quality both in boldness of image and quality and condition of print. VG plus, slight wear. Volume 2 only ( of 4 volume set) (a66235)
$250.00 Ogura, Toyofumi (introduction) Yuichiro Sasaki (editor) Seizo Yamada (photographer) . HIROSHIMA PHOTOGRAPH
Hiroshima Oct 1,1949. Published by Hiroshima Peace Society. Octavo, 24 original photographs (ranging in size from 2 inches square to 4x2 inches) mounted in accordion-style album with English text, red ribbon-bound wraps album. Very interesting photos: one page shows a street before, immediately after the bomb and 3 years later. Photographs are exceptionally strong images. Good, wraps frayed and worn. Scarce. (a67016)
$600.00 Nakamori, Akio & Kishin Shinoyama . SHINJUKU SHINOYAMA KISHIN
Tokyo 1991 first edition.Text in English and in Japanese. 4to., brilliant bold bright color photography throughout, stiff wraps with large printed glossy black jacket. Fine. (a71554)
$72.00 Sato, Masaaki . MASAAKI SATO IN NEW YORK 1970 - 1979
1979 first edition Seibu Department Stores. Catalogue for series of exhibitions of Sato's work in Japan. Text in English and in Japanese. 4to ., 35pp., works of this photographer shown with many illustrations in color, original wraps. VG plus. (a83312)
$97.00 Kimura, Ihei (photographer) . JAPANESE SCHOOL LIFE THROUGH THE CAMERA
Tokyo July 1937 Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. Ihei Kimura was one Japan's greatest photographers. Text in English, French and German. Small folio, 50 very fine mounted photo illustrations by Ihei Kimura, stiff photo pictorial wraps with the original stiff clear glassine overlay and metal spiral binding. VG, metal spiral just beginning to rust in a few places, slight wear on cover edges. Photos are in Fine condition. Glassine slightly yellowed and lightly rubbed. No ownership marks. Scarce (a84840)
$2800.00 Bank of Tokyo . THE OLD AND THE NEW IN JAPAN (ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS)
Bank of Tokyo (1963?). Album of 40 fine original photographs mounted on heavy stock with short text printed below in margin. Album measures 10x14 inches. Photos vary in size but most are about 6x8 inches. In fancy fabric-covered cloth with fancy string binding. All edges edge gilt. Views include the Bank of Tokyo, Aerial View of Tokyo, Kinkakuji, Dezomeshiki, Kabuki, industrial equipment and machinery, factories, fishing boats, cultural events, etc. Photos are Fine; album is slightly worn VG, slight wear on corners, very slight toning of paper. (a86921)
$150.00 Ponting, H. G. (Herbert George) . JAPANESE STUDIES
Yokohama 1906 first edition Kelly and Walsh. Collotypes by K. Ogawa, Tokyo. Hardcover with colorful pictorial boards with silver moon, boat, islands and trees on front and rear panel. Oblong 4to. 11x7-3/4 inches; 28x20 cm., 52 Japanese scenes photographed by Ponting and printed in collotypes by Kazumasa Ogawa, silk string binding bound accordian-style. All views identified, many accompanied by a few line of poetry by Wordsworth, Longfellow,others. All tissue guards present. VG light rubbing and fading on cover, light discoloration on end papers. Photo illustrations near Fine; tissues toned. Binding secure. No ownership marks. Beautifu bookl. (a87248)
$290.00Japan. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF JAPAN WITH 47 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
c. 1880-1910. no photographer given. Album has 36 photos, 9 x 7-1/2 inches, delicately hand-colored; 3 monotone photos 4x3 inches and 8 monotone photos 4-3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Most of the large photos have a printed label on lower edge of view identifying the locale of the photo. Photographs are of Nikko, Chuzenji, Ashio, Omama, Yokohama. Several unidentified photos are of Japanese women in native costume. The boards are foxed. The photos are quite interesting but all are a bit faded and toned giving them an air of mystery. Foxing in margins. Hard to date. Album itself has silk-covered boards with backstrip and tips leather. Album is 14-1/2 x 11 inches. Album cover is only Fairly Good with leather rubbed, worn and chipped. Binding inside is very secure and no tears or chips on photos or boards. (a87353)
$370.00Hibiki Shashinkan. SOUVENIR DU NAGASAKI - A SENTIMENTAL NIGHT IN JAPAN (1927)
Nagasaki 1927 first edition thus Hibiki Shashinkan (Photo Studio). Large luscious photograph album of Nagasaki (album measures 9x12 inches ; 24x31 cm.) Text is dated 1926 but initial section (of 7 pages) appears to be a souvenir of a specific event in 1927 which was then bound onto the photograph album. Album is Hardcover covered with tan velvet with inchlong side flaps. Front board panel has image of a schooner in gilt on a leather rectangle mounted in the middle. Silver lettering. Rear panel has embossed name "Hibiki". The 1927 souvenir begins with a page with a mounted original photograph of an unidentified group of Japanese and 4 Westerners. Appears to have been a group interested in botany, possibly gardening, as names of several plants, Agro-Hort Society and the name Robert Fortune appear in the Japanese text which follows. The photo is followed by a titlepage "A Sentimental Night in Japan Apr 1927" in English and Japanese and then 5 pages of text in Japanese printed on rectos only. Then follows 114 page Souvenir of Nagasake - the first page is a color painting, then 113 pages of Hibiki's very beautiful artistic photographs of Nagasaki , some foldout, several tipped in, all with tissue guards. All photos identified in English and in Japanese. Text and Photos are Fine. Cover is VG with no tearing but some fading and rubbing on velvet and one 1/4 inch chip in velvet on middle of rear panel. All hinges secure and uncracked. No ownership marks. RARE. (One copy is in the British Museum which apparently has a different introductory souvenir bound in.) Pictures gladly provided upon request. (a87376)
$700.00 Tamamura, Photographer of Kobe, Japan . THE FISHERMEN'S LIFE IN JAPAN
Album of colored photograph illustrations. Album is 10 x7 inches (25.5 x 18 cm) , stiff boards covered with tan silk and dark brown silk ties. There are twenty 4x6 inches photos, on rectos only, each with description in English below which read together make an engaging story about the life of a traditional Japanese fisherman. There is title page in Japanese with the only words in English being "Published by Tamamura, Photographer, Kobe, Japan." no date (may have date in Japanese). c. 1890? near VG, silkc wearing off extreme cover tips, light spotting on end papers. No ownership marks. Rare. (a87440)
$600.00 Kobe , Japan . GROUP OF 30 ORIGINAL POSTCARDS WITH VIEWS OF KOBE IN ORIGINAL PRINTED PAPER ENVELOPE
Thirty fine photo illustrations of Kobe, her people, countryside and monuments, c. 1900. On unmailed, unused and not marked postcards. Identification of each view is printed beneath image in both English and Japanese. In original printed paper envelope although current condition of this envelope is poor. Photos are strong bold images and are in VG condition. (a89756)
$50.00 Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan . GROUP OF 17 ORIGINAL POSTCARDS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING DESTRUCTION DUE TO ALLIED BOMBING IN WORLD WAR TWO
Seventeen original unmailed postcards. Each 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. Produced by Universal Postal Union. All have bw photo on front with title below in blue ink in both English and in Japanese. No ownership marks. All views in Tokyo and Yokohama. VG. (a89757)
$100.00 Japan Postcard Views . GROUP OF 44 ORIGINAL UNMAILED POSTCARDS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAPAN
Forty-four unmailed postcards. Each 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. Produced by Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo. All views identified in English and most also in Japanese. No ownership marks. Some of the cards are chromolithographic views and some are bw photos to which color has been applied. Most all are excellent strong views; most all are views of items of interest to tourists as Wisteria in blossom at Kowukabe, Tea ceremony, Chrysanthemum show, Nikko Pagoda, Hozu Rapids near Kyoto, etc. (a89758)
$30.00 Japan - Original Photographs . NINE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF TEA, SILK AND RICE PRODUCTION IN JAPAN, C. 1900
c. 1900. Philadelphia Museums. Nine 7x9 inch original photographs mounted on very heavy cardboard each 9-1/2 x 12 inches and each with title below photograph on front and full text description on verso of cardboard. Photographs: Preparing Tea Pan Firing, Picking Tea, Transplanting Rice, Separating Rice from Straw, Going to Market, Cutting Rice, Feeding Silk Worms, Reeling Silk, Weaving. All photos VG or better; boards VG except one which is only Good with inch long closed tear in lower margin (not near photograph.) Lot of 9 photos: (a93634)
$110.00Original Stereocard Photographs. COLLECTION OF 59 ORIGINAL EARLY PHOTOGRAPH STEREOCARDS OF JAPAN - MID 19THC TO EARLY 20thc
59 assorted cards. Each card approx 7x 3-1/2 inches heavy stock with two almost identical original photographs mounted. Viewed with a viewer, the result is an amazing 3-dimensional effect. All photographs identified. Photographers include Underwood, T. Enami, Griffith, Strohmeyer & Wyman, Universal Photo Art Company, American Stereoscope Company, H. C. White, others. Views include: street scenes as "street in Japanese Quarters of Old Port Arthur Manchuria; Birdseye view of Yu-no-Tani Hot Springs near Kumamoto, Asakusa Street Tokyo, Yokohama, At a Farmyard in the Mountians near Dogashima (dated 1901) , etc. One hand colored, rest bw. Most VG, a few Good with light wear; one Fairly Good with a small stain on top edge of one photograph. Group of 59 views. (photography; ephemera) (a94150)
$290.00original photograph. HANDCOLORED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH C. 1880 - MAWARIDORO NIKKO (Revolving Lantern in Nikko, Japan)
C. 1880. Photograph mounted on heavy stock card. Photo is 8 x 10 inches. Slightly and artistically handcolored. Title is printed in the image. Matte is toned and very slightly wavy. There is another large album photo on the verso "Rokakudo.". VG. (a96637)
$35.00Takaboko, Japan. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF TAKABOKO - c. 1880
C. 1880. Photograph mounted on heavy stock card. Photo is 8 x 10 inches. A few very light touchs of hand-applied color. Title is printed in the image. Matte is toned and very slightly wavy. Good plus. (a96639)
$25.00original photograph. HANDCOLORED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH C. 1880 - BUDDHA (in Japan)
C. 1880. Photograph mounted on heavy stock card. Photo is 8 x 10 inches. Slightly and artistically handcolored. Title is written in ink below the photograph on the matte. Matte is toned and very slightly wavy. There is another large photo on the verso "Ishiyamtera". VG. (a96641)
$35.00(Japan and Buddhism). 47 ORIGINAL MONOTONE PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAPAN AND ORIENT MOUNTED ON INDIVIDUAL HEAVY STOCK CARDS , c. 1880 - MANY RELATING TO BUDDHISM
c. 1880. 10 heavy stock cards (10 x 14-1/2 inches) each with one large original photograph on one side 8-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches and 4 smaller photos mounted on verso , smaller photos are 4 x6 inches. (one card has a large photo on both sides.) These are not the usual tourist photos and appear to have been taken by a traveller. All photos professionally and neated mounted. Images strong. Only 7 views are identified (all titles are in the images) Kiyomizudera, Nanjengi, Arasiyama, Buddha in Nara, Maruyama, Qchiai Sekimon in Hodsu-Gawa, Karasaklin Aumi. Many of the views show Buddhist statuary. Good, some foxing and toning on mattes in margins. Eighteen photos show humans. Total of 47 photos - appear to all be of Japan . Pictures available on request. (a96642)
$400.00