Kurokawa Kisho no Sakuhin [The Works of Kurokawa Kisho] On the architecture and ideas of Kurokawa Kishō, 1970. US$3,500.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books
[Miniature book with a miniature desk] Miniature book, with desk, Shōwa 58 [1983]. US$280.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
[Miniature book with a miniature cabinet] Miniature book, with cabinet, Shōwa 57 [1982]. US$280.00
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Kokujin wa Teikosuru: Sento teki Kokujin Undo no Puroguramu [The Black People Will Resist: A Program for a Militant Black Movement] On Malcolm X and the Black liberation movement, 1965. US$360.00
▶ Translations of Western Texts
[Untitled set of 36 woodblocks] Printing blocks for two books by Kawakami Sumio, [1950-1980s?]. US$4,060.00
▶ Others
Toki Seo [Shouldering the Weight of Time] Stencil-printed illustrations on time, Shōwa 61 [1986]. US$305.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books
[Untitled katazome print on papermaking] A stencil-printed homage to papermaking villages, [ca. mid-Shōwa period (1950s-1960s)?]. US$120.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
[Untitled collection of booksellers' tickets, book-binders' labels, and ex-libris] Booksellers' tickets and bookbinders' labels from around the world, [compiled ca. 1930s?]. US$1,600.00
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Nouvelles Compositions Decoratives, Premiere Serie [New Decorative Compositions, First Series] Abstraction enters the decorative arts, [ca. 1928–1930?]. US$4,500.00
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Showa Bijo Sugata Kurabe: Benisomezuki, Shusho [Competing Beauties of the Showa Era: The Eighth Month, Lingering Heat] An early Shōwa period beauty, by Watanabe Ikuharu, ca. early Shōwa period [1927-1930?]. US$1,800.00
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Manifesto of the Communist Party The first authorised English translation of the Communist Manifesto, [1927]. US$1,800.00
▶ Western Books
Untitled album of match labels Over 300 match labels from the early Shōwa period, [ca. Shōwa 2-15 (1927-1940)]. US$1,160.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Bijin no Kaisuiyoku [A Beautiful Woman at the Beach] A modern girl enjoys a day at the beach, ca. mid Shōwa period (1950s-1970s)? US$200.00
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Compositions, Couleurs, Idées Sonia Delaunay's landmark Art Deco design portfolio, 1930? US$9,000.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books
[Gyofu (Fisherman)] A memorial edition of the print that heralded the sōsaku hanga movement, [1960]. US$2,500.00
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Untitled photograph of the premises of T.I. Yonemitsu, Jeweler & Watchmaker Photograph of a Japanese watchmaker and jeweler in Vancouver, ca. 1930-40s. US$180.00
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Tenth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Lithographs, Serigraphs, Stencils, Intaglio, Combined Medium, Concrete, Iron and Woodblock Prints Catalogue of a 1965 print exhibition, 1965. US$280.00
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Kikkō-shū (Album of Auspicious Light) Designs by Tatsumura Heizō and poems by Yosano Akiko, preface dated Shōwa 4 (1929). US$220.00
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Nankyoku Tairiku (The Antarctic Continent) A sizeable map of Antarctica produced by the Japan Polar Research Association, 1965. US$160.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Nankyoku Tairiku (The Antarctic Continent) A large map of Antarctica published to commemorate the International Geophysical Year, ca. 1957-1958. US$280.00
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Nankyoku Tanken Jitsuroku (True Record of the Antarctic Expedition) Tada's memoirs of the Antarctic expedition, Shōwa 31 (1956). US$1,680.00
▶ Japanese Literature
Nankyoku Tanken Inuzori-tai: Futari no Ainu no Hanashi (Antarctic Expedition Dog Sled Team: The Story of Two Ainu People) The story of two Ainu men in Antarctica, Shōwa 20 (1945). US$600.00
▶ Japanese Literature
Watashi no Nankyoku Tanken-ki (My Account of the Antarctic Expedition) A re-packaged edition of Shirase's personal account of the Antarctic expedition, Shōwa 18 (1943). US$1,400.00
▶ Japanese Literature
Shirase Chūi Tanken-ki (An Account of Lieutenant Shirase's Expeditions) The first trade edition of Shirase's biography, Shōwa 17 [1942]. US$1,680.00
▶ Japanese Literature
Untitled album of tipped-in photographs of the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden An album of tipped-in photographs of the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden, [ca. 1930s]. US$2,860.00
▶ Photo Books
Shijō Taiheiyō Ryokō (A Trip to the Pacific on Paper) A draft of an article produced for All Women magazine, ca. early to mid-Shōwa period (1940-1950s). US$280.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
[Untitled painting] Oil painting for the cover of a children's magazine, [ca. early Shōwa period (late 1930s-1940s)]. US$480.00
▶ Paintings & Scrolls
Hibiki (Reverberations) Commercial art by Sugiura Hisui, ca. Shōwa period (1930-60s). US$860.00
▶ Others
Two untitled sketchbooks by an amateur artist Stunning watercolours of Japan, Shōwa 11-15 (1936-1940). US$2,180.00
▶ Paintings & Scrolls
Shihonron (Das Kapital) The definitive pre-war translation of Marx's Das Kapital, Shōwa 2-3 (1927-1928). US$780.00
▶ Translations of Western Texts
Shochū O-utagai (Summer Greetings) Cooling woodblock-printed matchbox cards designed for summer, Shōwa 8 (1933). US$75.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Three woodblock-printed envelopes Charming designs by Ogawa Usen, ca. early to mid-Shōwa period (1930-40s)? US$65.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Four untitled woodblock prints from Sekka's Ashide-e Elegant ashide-e by Kamisaka Sekka, Shōwa 19 (1944). US$350.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Timetable: Royal Netherlands-Indian Airways, K.N.I.L.M. Beautifully designed booklet advertising Royal Dutch Indies Airways flights in Indonesia, 1933. US$180.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Yukihisa Isobe Exhibition A cat flap catalogue of works by Yukihisa Isobe, 1964. US$380.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Sasei haiga (Poems and illustrations by Sasei) A playful set of haiga illustrations by Uzuki Sasei, 1940. US$230.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books
Erokan jidai no uta: Nikkatsu eiga shudaika (Song for the age of erotic senses: theme of the Nikkatsu film) An Ero-guro-nansensu era score featuring a 'modern girl' and abstract graphics, 1930 US$1,285.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books
Chiyo-shibori (Decorative tie-dyeing (patterns)) Samples for creative tie-dye patterns, woodblock-printed, Seisen 5 (1941). US$485.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books
An obi featuring ornate book wrappers From the Shōwa period, ca. Shōwa period (20th century). US$490.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
A Charming Obi Decorated with Miniature Books A Playful Obi, ca. Shōwa period (20th century). US$570.00
▶ Others
A postcard featuring Izumiya Ichibei's bookstore From Tōkaidō meisho zue, 1930-50s. US$110.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Shochiku Films Scenario: Farewell to Spring A Booklet on Japan's First 'LGBTQI+ Film', 1959 US$285.00
▶ Photo Books
Hobby Cocktails An Early Japanese Cocktail Book, 1933 US$1,525.00
▶ Japanese Literature
Two-Page Letter in Morse Code A Letter in Morse Code, ca. 1936? US$205.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera
Monyō-sen: moyō zushiki (Selected designs: pattern-illustrations) Circular motifs by the great masters, Shōwa 5 (1930). US$640.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books
Nankyoku he Itta Neko no Hanashi (The Tale of the Cat who Went to Antarctica) A little-known piece of Antarctic fiction, Shōwa 17 (1942). SOLD
▶ Translations of Western Texts
Draft illustrations for Onna Irezumi-shi (The Woman Tattoo Artist) Draft illustrations for a serialised story of a woman tattoo artist, ca. Shōwa 25 (1950). SOLD
▶ Paintings & Scrolls
Title unidentified Printing block for a strip cartoon, ca. mid-Shōwa period (1950-60s)? SOLD
▶ Others