New York: SOHO Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Japan just after their defeat in World War II. "Written by one of Japan's most popular mystery novelists, [this] was first published in Tokyo in 1948 and won the Mystery Writers Club Award. It remains to this day among the most read of Japanese detective mysteries." Translated from the Japanese and adapted by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 324 pp. ISBN: 1-569471088.

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.

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.

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.

Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, (1959) dj. Hardcover - An introduction to Kabuki - a dramatic art based on singing and dancing - originally published in 1938. Illustrated with many photographs, with several in full color, including the frontispiece. Bibiliography. Index, 157 pp

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.

New York: Mayflower Books, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes chapters on images of the Floating World, rivals of Utamaro; the Utagawa school and much more. The text is by Roni Neuer and Herbert Libertson with an introduction and biographical passages by Susugu Yoshida. Illustrated with 377 full color plate, most full-page, as well as some black and white reproductions. Glossary, index of names and works, bibliography.Folio size in original black boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-831790415.

New York: Summit Books, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the "story of Alec Stern, a newly minted Yale graduate on assignment in Japan." 253 pp. ISBN: 0-671666002.

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1985). Contains 136 poems, translated from the Japanese by Wright and arranged in a thematic sequence. These represent just a small selection from the Manyoshu - compiled in the 8th century, it contains 4,516 poems, one of the world's great collections of poetry) Includes an introduction by the translator. Illustrated throughout with classic Japanese paintings and drawings. Notes on the poems and poets. 94 pp. ISBN: 0-879512407.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first crime novel featuring Reiko Himekawa, a young female homicide detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, to be published in the US. Translated from the Japanese by Giles Murray. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1250061591.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. dj. Hardcover - A novel about Japan in the aftermath of the American occupation. Translated by Ivan Morris. 342 pp.

Mount Shasta, CA: Shasta Abbey Press, (1978). First edition - The chronicle of her last six years in Japan by Jiyu-Kennett, one of the first Western women to become a Zen master. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-930066030.

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.

New York: SOHO Press, (2015). First edition - A novel by this award-winning Japanese noir writer, translated by Alison Markin Powell. "On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment Nishikawa decides to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the weapon brings an intoxicating sense of purpose to his dull university life.. . As he spirals into obsession, his focus is consumed by one idea: that possessing the gun is no longer enoughhe must fire it." 198 pp.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1977). Hardcover first edition - A look at netsuke from its origins to contemporary carvers. Includes a photo-essay on the creation of netsuke. Foreword by Hans Conried. Illustrated with 51 black and white photographs by Tsune Sugimura and 108 full color photographs by Tomo-o Ogita and sketches by Adelheid Roth Roscher. Bibliography, glossary-index, and list of dealers.Slightly oversized format, printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-804811598.

New York: Random House, (2010). First edition - The fifth novel by the author of the Man Booker finalists "Cloud Atlas" and "Number9 Dream." Set in 1799 on Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, an artificial island which is the Japanese Empire's sole window onto the world, and the farthest outpost of the Dutch East Indies Company. Among his many awards, Mitchell has been selected as one of the best young British authors by Granta. 469 pp.

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

New York: Harper & Row, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which was both an enormous best seller in Japan and the basis for a very popular film. The Japanese archipelego is being wrenched by enormous forces - a parable for our times on how we deal with natural disasters, the consequences of global warming, national identity and the essential relocation of millions of people. Translated from the Japanese by Michael Gallagher. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-060124490.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Superintendant Otani and his wife Hanae take a vacation on the island of Awaji, and Otani reflects on a murder case he was involved in 20 years ago. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-684-191318.

New York: Putnam / Perigee, (1963). A collection of seven short pieces by this Nobel prize winning author, stories which span half a century of his career. Translated and with an introduction by Howard Hibbett. ix, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-399-505237.

New York: Random House, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by the author of the Man Booker finalists "Cloud Atlas" and "Number9 Dream." Set in 1799 on Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, an artificial island which is the Japanese Empire's sole window onto the world, and the farthest outpost of the Dutch East Indies Company. Among his many awards, Mitchell has been selected as one of the best young British authors by Granta. 479 pp. ISBN: 9781400065455.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "thriller about baseball, sex slavery and trade agreements." Boldly INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-312855532.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's first 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 with stamp in red. 400 pp.

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.

New York: The Viking Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The debut novel from this independent filmmaker features Jane Tagaki-Little, a struggling filmmaker in New York, who is given her big break - a chance to travel through the United States to produce a Japanese television program sponsored by American meat exporters. SIGNED on the title page. Dustjacket praise from Arthur Golden ("Romance, agri-business,self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding - it takes a talent like Ruth Ozeki's to blend all these together") and John Sayles. Winner of the American Book Award and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for fiction. Bibliography, notes, 366 pp. ISBN: 0-670-879045.

New York: Vintage Books, (2005). First edition - A thriller by one of Japan's most highly regarded contemporary writers - a story of domestic violence in suburbs of Tokyo. Translated by Stephen Synder, Note on Japanese currency. Winner of the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, this was her first book to appear in the US, where it was nominated for an Edgar. This was the only novel published in translation to make crimereads recent list of 30 essential novels by women written in the past 100 years.

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.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2000). First edition - The authors first novel, set in turn of century Japan, in the world of the Noh theater and in Paris during the height of impressionism. 371 pp.