Japan (Baedeker Guide)
Ostfildern, Germany: Verlag Karl Baedeker, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. More
Japan
The Historical Demography of Pre-modern Japan
Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 2001. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. Historical demography is the study of patterns and changes in a society's population before the collection of data through modern censuses. For Japan, data on family size and structure, fertility and infant mortality, marriage patterns, urban and rural..... More
The Historical Demography of Pre-modern Japan
Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 2001. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. With promotional band on dust jacket. Historical demography is the study of patterns and changes in a society's population before the collection of data through modern censuses. For Japan, data on family size and structure, fertility and infant..... More
The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap
London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This book aims to solve the problem of how parts of mankind escaped from an apparently inevitable trap of war, famine and disease in the last three hundred years. Through a detailed comparative analysis of English and Japanese history it explores..... More
Manga Design
Koln: Taschen, 2004. First Edition (presumed). Outsized Softcover. A DVD is included. manga /mon-gah/ noun A type of Japanese comic book published in anthologized series, vastly popular in Japan among adults and widely influential on advertising, visual arts, and particularly the Anime film genre. The influence of..... More
Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks 1680 - 1900
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2010. Stephen Addiss (foreword). Reprint. Hardcover. Heavy item, extra handling charge for local delivery. Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of..... More
Tokyo: A City Heading for Death
Tokyo: Magazine House Co. Ltd, 1993. Fourth Printing. Softcover with dust jacket. Rare. Text in Japanese and English. Street scenes of Tokyo contrasted with occasional female nudes, all made by Araki in 1989 while his wife Yoko was dying of ovarian cancer. Photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki; afterword by Toshimaru Ito..... More
Spinning Tropics: A Novel
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 2009. Wayne P. Lammers (tr.). Paperback. Meet Hiro. She’s tall, lanky and awkward—a twenty-something Japanese woman who has decamped to Vietnam from Tokyo to work as a language teacher. Meet Dung. She’s shy, beautiful, and tough—a young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese, determined to create a...... More
Japanese For Busy People I (Kana Version)
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1995. Second Printing. Softcover. More
Fist of the North Star
San Francisco: Viz Communications, 1995. Tetsuo Hara (art). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. In the original classic manga set in a postapocalyptic wasteland ruled by savage gangs, a hero appears to bring justice to the guilty. This warrior named Ken holds the deadly secrets of a mysterious martial art known..... More
A Guide to Food Buying in Japan
Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1994. Softcover. More
Creating Japanese Gardens
San Ramon, CA: Ortho Books, 1989. Reprint. Softcover. These days, people crave gardens that fill the soul and comfort the body. Japanese gardening answers those yearnings. This book demonstrates how to: - Create a feeling of sanctuary - Make tranquil spaces - Arrange plants and ornaments Use..... More
Clover Omnibus Edition
Milwaukie: Dark Horse Manga, 2009. First Printing. Softcover. Kazuhiko is a young, but already deeply wounded black ops agent of a baroque, retro-tech future-pulled out of retirement to escort Sue, a mysterious waif, to a destination she alone knows. Sue and Kazuhiko have never met . . . yet she..... More
Japanese Pottery Old and New (The Detroit Institute of Arts October 8 - November 12, 1950)
Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952. William A. Bostick (catalogue design), Sylvester Luca (photos), Leo Teholiz (map of Japan). Second Edition. Paperback, Staple-Bound. Features map of Japan with indications of localities represented in exhibit. More
Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727. Born in Westphalia in 1651, Kaempfer travelled throughout the Near and Far East before settling in Japan as physician to the trading..... More
Contemporary Japanese Workbook: An Introductory Workbook for Students of Japanese Volume 2 (with Audio CD)
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). Contemporary Japanese Workbook, Volume 2 was created as a supplementary material for Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook for College Students. A workbook which is best used for reviewing and reinforcing the concepts and learning materials introduced in the textbook, it is also..... More
Killing Commendatore
London: Vintage Books, 2019. Philip Gabriel (tr), Ted Goossen (tr). Paperback. When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings. But then he..... More
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir
New York: Vintage International, 2009. Philip Gabriel (tr.). 24th Printing. Paperback. An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is an illuminating glimpse into the solitary passions of one of our greatest artists. While training for..... More
Wind/Pinball: Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 (Two Novels)
New York: Vintage International, 2016. Ted Goossen (tr.). First Edition. Eleventh Printing. Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami’s first novel Hear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973. Each book has its..... More
Underground
London: Vintage, 2013. Paperback. In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members..... More
After Dark
London: Vintage Books, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help..... More
Sputnik Sweetheart
London: Vintage Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours..... More
"Tabibito" (The Traveler)
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1982. Galen Song (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Translated by L. Brown and R. Yoshida. This is Yukawa's autobiography of his early years, written in Japanese when he was fifty years old. It describes his family background and the education and experiences..... More
Blade of the Immortal, Vol. 8: The Gathering
Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality and to rid his eternal suffering and lift the curse, he must slay one thousand enemies, and his quest begins with a young girl who seeks revenge on her parents'..... More
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
UK: Penguin Books, 2019. Haruki Murakami (introduction). First Penguin Classics Edition. Fifth Printing. Paperback. A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art..... More
