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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - A boy dreams about a story told him by his mother about a crane which turns into a woman, and the boundaries between reality and dreams fade. Illustrated in full color by this Caldecott winning artist. Large format. ISBN: 978-0547214108.

London: Atlantic Books, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature with its roots in a World War II tragedy. "His recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his fathers death during WWII: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel." Translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 424 pp. ISBN: 978-0857895455.

Boston: Shambhala, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A journey deep into the heart of American and Japanese Zen Buddhism, culminating with Matthiessen's 1982 pilgrimage to Japan with his Zen teacher. Foreword by Hakuyu T. Maezumi. Index. xii, 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394-552512.

New York: Harper Perennial, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning writer's highly praised first novel. "Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past. . a novel at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind of love story. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 356 pp plus 16 pp of additional material, including an interview with the author. ISBN: 978-0061732850.

New York: SOHO Press, (1999). First edition - A novel by this Australian writer which focuses on the lives of three women expatriates in Japan... "Their Japan is one of cherry blossoms and tea ceremonies, to be sure, but it's also one of love hotels, department-store 'disaster corners,' and monotonous second-rate teaching jobs. Rather than pretending to tell us something new about Japan, Highbridge has told us something new about those who seek it out; the result is a delicate, unsentimental, and surprisingly cohesive book." (Chloe Byrne)"

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.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - A young adult novel which "explores the two most powerful forces known to man - death and love. . . Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone. . When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months."

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight stories by this award winning writer, written over a period of 20 years from 1959 to 1979, and set in Vietnam, in the South China Sea, and in the cities and mountains of Japan. Translated from the Japanese by Cecelia Segawa Seigle. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-396091083.

Seattle and Tokyo: Association for Asian Studies. University of Washington Press / University of Tokyo Press. n.d. (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which "explores the political implications of various kinds of Japanese conciliatory techniques, particularly as they affect the enforcement of rights and popular right-consciousness essential to democratic government and rational industrial society." 2 volumes. Volume I includes a map, chart, 181 pp. Volume II contains several appendices glossary, bibliography, index, 183 - 420 pp.

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.

New York: Grove Press, (2015). First edition - A novel by this winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature with its roots in a World War II tragedy. "His recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his fathers death during WWII: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel." Translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 424 pp.

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.

Seattle: Chin Music Press Inc., (2012). Hardcover first edition - A novel set on a tiny, earthquake-plagued island in a remote corner of Japan. Endo, a young physician unjustly charged with a patient's death, is banished to the island to care for the few remaining elderly residents. A book which "combines modern earthquake science, ancient Japanese myths on the origin of earthquakes, and an unforgettable cast of characters to create a suspenseful, richly illustrated novel." (Publishers Weekly) A beautifully designed book, with L.J.C. Shimoda's artwork throughout, 279 pp plus a sixteen-page illustrated retelling of the myth of Kashima, the god who controls a giant, thrashing catfish that causes earthquakes. ISBN: 978-0984457670.

Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle (1972, c 1964) dj. Hardcover - The first book in English to describe and analyze this Japanese art. Illustrated with over 100 photographs and drawings. Glossary, bibliography, index. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-804805741.

New York: Scholastic, (1995) dj. Hardcover - A story of of his grandfather's life in America and in Japan by this award winning artist. and how as a boy he listened to his stories of California, where he now lives. Includes a complete number line ending in 1, but the back cover mentions the Caldecott medal and notes that this is for distribution through the school market. Large format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-395979749.

University of Tokyo Press: (1991). Compiles papers by nine scholar on the two and a half centuries ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868) Translated and edited by Conrad Totman. Illustrations, index, viii, 240 pp. ISBN: 0-860084906.

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.

London: Picador, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of Lucy Fly, an English woman working as a translator in Tokyo. When the story opens she has been arrested for the murder of another English woman, Lily Bridges, whose partial remains have just been found. Otto Penzler called this "little gem of a book is a startlingly good debut - it grips you while you read and stays with you long after you've finished." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Crime Writer's Association John Creasey Memorial Award for the best first crime novel of 2001. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-330485016.

New York: Random House, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "authoritative account of the Great Age of Japanese prints (about 1660 to 1860), and the artists who created them. The age in which these men flourished was robust, colorful and art-fostering even though it happened entirely within the period of the powerful Tokugawa dictatorship." Includes 65 illustrations with 40 of them are in full color. Includes information on the Japanese print market today, including an estimate of prices. Brief biographies of the ukiyo-e artists whose works are included in this book. Bibliography, index and glossary. xii, 403 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's fourth novel, a thriller featuring Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antique dealer, who inherited his father's detective agency in Tokyo. When two of his friends are killed backstage at the Kennedy Center, Brodie is enlisted - off the books - to help track down the assassin. Fast-paced, often brutal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 358 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, a thriller featuring Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antique dealer, who inherited his father's detective agency in Tokyo. An old friend - a noted Japanese potter and artist - and his entire family have been targeted for death. Fast-paced, often brutal. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller featuring Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antique dealer, the father of a six-year old girl, who recently inherited his father's detective agency in Tokyo. Fast-paced, often brutal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 400 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon second novel by the author best known for "Patch of Blue." Set in Japan in an isolated village on the slopes of a volcano in the years from 1941 to 1945, this is the story of an oddly assorted group of foreign civilians living out the war in near starvation and misery, and especially of the American wife of a Japanese scientist. Kata, born in Australia and married to a Japanese scientist, based this on many of her own experiences, although she commented on how good both her in-laws and her Japanese friends were to her. 206 pp.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award winning writer originally published in 1987 under the title "Whore Banquets." The story of a young Englishman stuck in Tokyo, his passport lost, working illegally is part thriller and part black comedy. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-297828991.

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.