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  • THE RUINED MAP. by Abe, Kobo,
    Abe, Kobo,
    THE RUINED MAP.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (2001). A literary thriller, the story of an unnamed detective, hired by a beautiful, alcoholic woman, to find clues related to the disappearance of her husband but instead he gradually begins to identify himself with the man he was supposed to find. A novel which uses elements of the noir genre to explore urbanization and alienation. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-375726527.

    Condition: Near fine (usual light toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 90205
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  • THE TEAHOUSE FIRE. by Avery, Ellis.
    Avery, Ellis.
    THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 390 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 55555
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  • THE TEAHOUSE FIRE. by Avery, Ellis.
    Avery, Ellis.
    THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 391 pp. ISBN: 1-594489300.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80878
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  • DUE WEST or Round the World in Ten Months. by Ballou, Maturin M.
    Ballou, Maturin M.
    DUE WEST or Round the World in Ten Months.

    Edition: Sixth edition.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. Hardcover - Four people - 2 men, including the author, and 2 women - set off from Massachusetts in the autumn for an around the world trip beginning by train across the US to Salt Lake City and San Francisco, with a side trip to Yosemite - and then on to Japan, Hong Kong, India, Malaya, Cairo and more. Entertainingly written with a lot of detail. 387 pp plus 8 pp publisher's ads.

    Condition: Good condition in brown cloth decorated on the cover and spine in gilt and embossed dark brown designs, sage green endpapers. Some fraying to ends of spine, endpapers improperly glued in gutters.

    Book ID: 89406
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  • RABBITS, CRABS, ETC.: Stories by Japanese Women. by Birnbaum, Phyllis, translator.
    Birnbaum, Phyllis, translator.
    RABBITS, CRABS, ETC.: Stories by Japanese Women.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.

    Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, (1982). First edition - Translations of six 20th century Japanese women's stories - writers who choose not to recognize the docile stereotype of Japanese women, but rather to write probing, provocative and sometimes chilling explorations of the female pysche. Translated and with an introduction by Birnbaum. Among the writers are Kanei Mieko, Sono Ayako, Enchi Fumiko and others. ix, 147 p . ISBN: -824808177.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name)

    Book ID: 76309
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  • SOJOURN IN OCCUPIED JAPAN. by Blackstock, Graham Belcher
    Blackstock, Graham Belcher
    SOJOURN IN OCCUPIED JAPAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Vantage Press, (1979.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by the author with the words "with the best of good wishes" on the dedication page. A fictionalized account - a novel based on the author's experiences - of a young American girl who arrives in Japan in 1945, at the end of World War II, to work with the American Red Cross - among the soldiers was the Army officer, who became her husband. As they spent the years working in Japan, they fell in love with the country and with the people as they struggled to build a new life among the devastation of the old. Illustrated with 42 full-page black and white paintings by…

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    New York: Vantage Press, (1979.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by the author with the words "with the best of good wishes" on the dedication page. A fictionalized account - a novel based on the author's experiences - of a young American girl who arrives in Japan in 1945, at the end of World War II, to work with the American Red Cross - among the soldiers was the Army officer, who became her husband. As they spent the years working in Japan, they fell in love with the country and with the people as they struggled to build a new life among the devastation of the old. Illustrated with 42 full-page black and white paintings by the artist-cartoonist Takeo Nishijima (based on watercolors which inspired this book). 399 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-53303843X.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39040
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  • Blyth, R.H. [Reginald Horace]
    ORIENTAL HUMOUR.

    Edition: First printing.

    Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press, 1959. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first edition of this classic and comprehensive English-language work on Japanese, Chinese & Korean humor from all periods (India is not included, although the introduction describes India as the chief origin of world humour.) Among the topics are Chinese classics and poetry, ghost stories, Liehtse, proverbs, Taoism, Zen, short stories, Korean humor and proverbs, Chinese influence on Japan, Japanese caricature, old and modern Senryu, Yanagidaru, and more. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, 26 rather striking inserted plates (7 in color), each with a tissue guard imprinted with notations about the plate, by Kang Hi An, Li Am, Sengai, Hakuin, Tosa Minsunaga and others, and 6 en texte illustrations. Chronological chart, bibliography, index. 582 pp.

    Condition: Very good in a good only dustjacket - a solid, clean copy in orange cloth with just a hint of dampness/crinkling to the upper edges of the first few pages, previous owner's name, in a fragile dustacket with rubbing along the folds, and one fold partially split (now protected by an archival cover.)

    Book ID: 36003
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  • TWENTY-FOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH BORGES Including A Selection Of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983. by Borges, Jorge Luis; Roberto Alifano
    Borges, Jorge Luis; Roberto Alifano
    TWENTY-FOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH BORGES Including A Selection Of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983.

    Edition: First printing.

    Housatonic, MA & New York: Lascaux Publishers / Grove Press, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Wide-ranging conversations with this great Argentinian writee on topics ranging from Borges life and work to books, poetry, the detective story, the tango, the Kaballah, and more, translated by Nicomedes Suarez Araruz, Willias Barnstone and Noemi Escandell. Includes a selection of poems translated by Willis Barnstone, Jorge Luis Borges and Nicomedes Suarez Araruz, Frontispiece illustration by Roberto Paez, photographs by Willis Barnstone. A title in the Altamira Inter-American series. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-39453879X.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (folded slightly off-center, a bit of rubbing to the corners of the folds of the black dj) .Uncommon in this condition,

    Book ID: 62161
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  • Bornoff, Nicholas.
    PINK SAMURAI: Love, Marriage & Sex in Contemorary Japan.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dj: 'Journalist Nicholas Bornoff opens a unique, richly researched window to the East in this revealing, often surprising account of sexual pursuits and politics in modern Japan. Attitudes towards women, men, family, work and erotic preferences are explored in depth, from the first primitive myths to the neon glare of the modern cities' - including geishas, love hotels, no-pantie coffee shops, erotic comics and more. Photographs. xvi, 479 pp. ISBN: 0-671-742655.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 37901
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  • THE IMPERIAL CRUISE: A Secret History of Empire and War. by Bradley, James.
    Bradley, James.
    THE IMPERIAL CRUISE: A Secret History of Empire and War.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Bradley traces a 1905 voyage to Asia by Roosevelt's emissary William Howard Taft, who negotiated a secret agreement in which America and Japan recognized each other's conquests of the Philippines and Korea. (Roosevelt's flamboyant, pistol-packing daughter Alice went along to generate publicity, and Bradley highlights her antics.) Each port of call prompts a case study of American misdeeds: the brutal counterinsurgency in the Philippines; the takeover of Hawaii by American sugar barons; Roosevelt's betrayal of promises to protect Korea, which greenlighted Japanese expansionism and thus makes him responsible for Pearl Harbor. Bradley explores the racist underpinnings of Roosevelt's policies and paradoxical embrace of the Japanese as Honorary…

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    New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Bradley traces a 1905 voyage to Asia by Roosevelt's emissary William Howard Taft, who negotiated a secret agreement in which America and Japan recognized each other's conquests of the Philippines and Korea. (Roosevelt's flamboyant, pistol-packing daughter Alice went along to generate publicity, and Bradley highlights her antics.) Each port of call prompts a case study of American misdeeds: the brutal counterinsurgency in the Philippines; the takeover of Hawaii by American sugar barons; Roosevelt's betrayal of promises to protect Korea, which greenlighted Japanese expansionism and thus makes him responsible for Pearl Harbor. Bradley explores the racist underpinnings of Roosevelt's policies and paradoxical embrace of the Japanese as Honorary Aryans. Bradley's critique of Rooseveltian imperialism is compelling but unbalanced." Maps, photographs, notes, index. Map endpapers. 387 pp. ISBN: 9780316008952.

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    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 62138
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  • THE CHINA LOVER. by Buruma, Ian.
    Buruma, Ian.
    THE CHINA LOVER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Penguin, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award winning writer and journalism scholar based in part on the life of the legendary Otaka Yoshiko, set in Shanghai during World War II, occupation Japan and the Middle East in the 1970s. 392 pp. ISBN: 9781843549048.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 55818
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  • MAX DANGER: The Adventures of an Expat in Tokyo. by Collins, Robert J.
    Collins, Robert J.
    MAX DANGER: The Adventures of an Expat in Tokyo.

    Edition: Paperback.

    Rutland, VT and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co. (1989). Foreword by Millard (Corky) Alexander. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-804815313.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 67815
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  • SEVEN DEADLY SHADOWS. by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani.
    Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani.
    SEVEN DEADLY SHADOWS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - The first collaboration between these two authors, a retelling of Kurosawas Seven Samurai featuring a girl - an outcast because she has the ability to see the supernatural - who tasked with saving the world from eternal darkness. Glossary. 376 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88112
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  • TO THE WHITE SEA. by Dickey, James (1923-1997)
    Dickey, James (1923-1997)
    TO THE WHITE SEA.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The poet's third and final novel set in Japan in the last days of the second World War. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-475651.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 71172
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  • ISLANDS, THE UNIVERSE, HOME. by Ehrlich, Gretel.
    Ehrlich, Gretel.
    ISLANDS, THE UNIVERSE, HOME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book, a collection of 10 lyrical and very personal essays on living - not just in the West - but in the universe. When her first book was published, Annie Dillard said 'Wyoming has found its Whitman' and like Dillard's own writings, Ehrlich explores the relationship between the human and natural worlds. Illustrated with brush paintings by the author. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-670-821616.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 27962
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  • ISLANDS, THE UNIVERSE, HOME. by Ehrlich, Gretel.
    Ehrlich, Gretel.
    ISLANDS, THE UNIVERSE, HOME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book, a collection of 10 lyrical and very personal essays on living - not just in the West - but in the universe. When her first book was published, Annie Dillard said 'Wyoming has found its Whitman' and like Dillard's own writings, Ehrlich explores the relationship between the human and natural worlds. Illustrated with brush paintings by the author. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-670-821616.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 52537
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  • Farrell, Andrew (transcribed and edited by.)
    JOHN CAMERON'S ODYSSEY.

    Edition: 3rd printing (just 2 months after the first).

    New York: Macmillan, 1928. Hardcover first edition - Based on a holographic manuscript of Cameron, written when he was 72, shortly before his death in Japan, this is the story of his travels from Scotland at age 17, in 1867, to Hawaii and over 3 oceans. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 10 other photographic plates (of an old-time luau, Honolulu harbor, etc.) and many drawings. Notes. 460 pages.

    Condition: Near fine in watered green silk cloth covers, with a black decorative panel on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. ( some spotting to the top edge of the textblock.)

    Book ID: 13221
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  • PACIFIC CROSSING. by Gary Soto.
    Gary Soto.
    PACIFIC CROSSING.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Needham, MA: Silver Burdett Ginn. (1992.). SIGNED - Young adult novel - two 'barrio brothers from San Francisco' go to Japan for the summer. SIGNED on title page. Glossaries of Spanish and Japanese words and phrases. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-663585228.

    Condition: Very good+ in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 41763
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  • PACIFIC CROSSING. by Gary Soto.
    Gary Soto.
    PACIFIC CROSSING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel - two 'barrio brothers from San Francisco' go to Japan for the summer. Glossaries of Spanish and Japanese words and phrases. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-152591877.

    Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, and overall tight and clean in a near fine and unmarked dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 84878
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  • PACIFIC CROSSING. by Gary Soto.
    Gary Soto.
    PACIFIC CROSSING.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Young adult novel - two 'barrio brothers from San Francisco' go to Japan for the summer. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1995 Glossaries of Spanish and Japanese words and phrases. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-152591877.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86313
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  • PACIFIC CROSSING. by Gary Soto.
    Gary Soto.
    PACIFIC CROSSING.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.). SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel - two 'barrio brothers from San Francisco' go to Japan for the summer. SIGNED on the title page. Glossaries of Spanish and Japanese words and phrases. 126 pp.

    Condition: Fine in pale blue printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 49416
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  • IDORU. by Gibson, William.
    Gibson, William.
    IDORU.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 21st Century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Rei Toei is the beautiful entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan: the Idoru. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-399-141308.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 80114
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  • Golden, Arthur.
    MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). Author's highly praised first novel - told as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, ranging from a poor fishing village in the 1920's to Kyoto in the 1940's and through World War II. Basis for the 2005 Academy award winning movie of the same title. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-679-781587.

    Condition: Good condition in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 47010
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  • MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA. by Golden, Arthur.
    Golden, Arthur.
    MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition - Rather uncommon advance issue of this debut novel - told as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, ranging from a poor fishing village in the 1920's to Kyoto in the 1940's and through World War II. Basis for the 2005 Academy award winning movie of the same title. 393 pp. Letter to booksellers bound in at beginning of book.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (a bit of rubbing to front cover.)

    Book ID: 43603
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  • THE PRINTMAKER'S DAUGHTER by Govier, Katherine.
    Govier, Katherine.
    THE PRINTMAKER'S DAUGHTER

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper Perennial, (2011). First edition - "A sweeping saga of nineteenth century Jaopan, where Oei, the daughter of the great Japanaese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai. " Glossary, 501 pp. Issued as a trade paperback original.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (a bit of rubbing to rear cover).

    Book ID: 59633
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  • Griffis, Faye Campbell
    LANTERN IN THE VALLEY

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Macmillan, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - A warm and lively story of a Japanese family and the importance of festivals and the continuous work in the rice fields. Illustrated by Vera Bock.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a somewhat edgeworn and price-clipped but overall very good dj.

    Book ID: 11789
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  • YEDO. by Guest, Lynn
    Guest, Lynn
    YEDO.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1985). Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in Japan in 1860 at the opening of the first British Legation in Yedo - Tokyo - in 250 years. Author's note, glossary, map. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-312896328.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (light toning to pages).

    Book ID: 76475
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  • THE NEXT CENTURY. by Halberstam, David.
    Halberstam, David.
    THE NEXT CENTURY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, (1991). Hardcover first edition - A book which reflects on the recent past and offers a wide-ranging perspective on the startling changes now reshaping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and an analysis of Japan's rise to its present position in the world's economy. I don't think he could have imagined how prophetic he was being when he said the American century is over! 126 pp. ISBN: 0-68810391X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79640
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  • OPERATION VENGEANCE: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II. by Hampton, Dan.
    Hampton, Dan.
    OPERATION VENGEANCE: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor. "In 1943, the United States military began to plan one of the most dramatic secret missions of World War II. Its code name was Operation Vengeance. Naval Intelligence had intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated Americas entry into the war." Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. xvi, 430 pp. ISBN: 978-0062938091.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. l

    Book ID: 85880
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  • THE DEVIL OF NANKING. by Hayder, Mo.
    Hayder, Mo.
    THE DEVIL OF NANKING.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A young Englishwoman obssessed with a past she cannot understandcomes to Tokyo seeking a rare piece of film footage that has been lost for decades. It shows a specific horrifying incident that took place during the notorious 1937 Nanking Massacre." Hayder's powerful third novel, one which alternates between Nanking in China as the Japanese Army comes closer and closer and the underworld of the yakuzi in modern Tokyo. Author's note. 363 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-17945.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 53640
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