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A Bar of Shadow
Van Der Post, Laurens
Hogarth Press London 1954 1st Thus
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Drama set in Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, the basis for the film "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence". BOOK: Very mild shelfwear; dealer sticker at foot of front pastedown, no ink names, stamps etc.; light offset to the endpapers; very faint scattered foxing across the edges of the text-block. JACKET: Intact, with price. Mild edgewear; "V" wear to the hinge corners; three tears, the largest approx 1.2cm; some abrasion to the hinges; browning to spine; light offset browning to interior, with showthrough; faint splash-mark stain on rear panel bottom. Scan on request. VG++
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 002684 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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A Bridge for Passing
Buck, Pearl S
Methuen London 1963 1st UK Edition
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket VG, Shelfwear, bump, ink gift inscrption, mild spine lean/G, Price-clipped, edgewear, chips, tears, staining. Continuation of her autobiography. Expanded condition report/scan on request.
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 024534 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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A Curse of Blossom: A Year In Japan
Quentin Crewe
Weidenfeld & Nicholson London, Great Britain 1960 First Edition
Book cover protected with new plastic covering. Hard Cover 176 pages. Foxing to the outer edges and parts of the dust jacket are torn quite badly. Good to Very Good
Price: $12.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 043309 Bookseller: Leura Books
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A Fever for Living
Roripaugh, Robert A
Gollancz London 1962 1st UK Edition
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Drama set in Japan after the Korean war. Expanded condition report/scan on request. VG++, Ink Name, Sl Bumping
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 007066 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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A Gentleman in Prison story of Tokichi Ishii written in Tokyo Prison
Ishii, Tokichi (Caroline Macdonald -- translator)
George H. Doran Company New York 1922 First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 360 g; XXVIII, 29-164 pages, with frontispiece, and five other photographs reproduced within the text. The title block pasted to the spine is slightly chipped on the left-hand side, and the octagonal title plaque on the front panel appears to be slightly darkened with age. Traces of foxing to the top and front edges of the textbook, and on of the front end page has been inserted a visiting card measuring 3" x 1.5" (I say inserted because someone has very carefully made eight small slices into the front end page, to allow the card to sit much in the same way that postage stamps are held in their albums. A digital image can be provided to confirm condition. "A man confesses to a crime, later denies it, but is sentenced to death on circumstantial evidence. Another man appears, confesses to the same crime, but is acquitted despite his confession. During the appeal trial, however, evidence was adduced which confirmed Ishii's confession to its minutest detail, and he was sentenced to death. As he says himself in his writing, he was thus able to make some amends for his sins and at the same time to save an innocent man from death." -- page XV Biography -- Inspirational Very Good
Price: $34.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0223682 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Glorious Way To Die; the kamikaze mission of the battleship Yamato April 1945
Spurr, Russell
ISBN: 0283988509
Sidgwick & Jackson London 1982 First British Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 800 g; X, three for two pages, last page blank, indexed, includes bibliography, appendices (including two diagrams of the ship, four maps, and 16 pages of black-and-white photography from the time the Yamato was being constructed, till it capsised after being bombed unremittingly by the Allies. Colour illustrated dust jacket. There is slight rubbing of the edges of the dust jacket, with chipping at the top and bottom of the spine section. Traces of foxing to the top edge and front edge of the text block, whiteout has been applied to the centre top of the front end page.. A digital image can be provided to help assess condition. Military History -- Japan Good
Price: $17.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 0219691 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Glorious Way To Die; The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato April 1945
Spurr, Russell
ISBN: 0283988509
Sidgwick & Jackson London 1982 First Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Hard Cover 800 g.; X, 342 pages, last page blank, introduction by author, list of maps appendices, geography and index. The text is illustrated with four maps within the text and a section of 16 pages of black-and-white photographs between page 118 and 119. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Light age toning of the text block edges and of the internal text. Illustrated dustwrapper with red and yellow background with white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels. The history of the Japanese battleship Yamato. From the time of its building, in secret, prior to World War II to its eventual demise on the seventh of April 1945. Along with the history of the battleship is the political, societal and morale of the Japanese military hierarchy, particularly near the end of the war where they sent young men on a one way bombing trips -- the kamikaze. As the author himself says the book ".... offers some insights into the agonising dilemma of a misguided, courageous people who persisted in continuing a hopeless war." -- from the rear fold over panel blurb. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Fish military history Military History -- Japan Good
Price: $22.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0108445 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Hundred Things Japanese
No Author Credited
ISBN: 0870403648
Japan Culture Institute Tokyo, Japan 1978 Reprint
Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 208 pages. 100 searching, insightful essays about the things, traditional and modern, that make up contemporary Japan. B/W photos. Some browning to outer edges. Some foxing to dust jacket. Good to Very Good
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 031212 Bookseller: Leura Books
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A Tarnished Phoenix
Melville, James
Barrie & Jenkins London 1990 1st Edition
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Thriller, set in Japan in 1947. Jacket by Angus McKie. Expanded condition report/scan on request. VG++, Shelfwear, Browning
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 009730 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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Amok
Fox, George
ISBN: 043616230X
London: Secker & Warburg, 1978
VG++, Ink Name, Bumping/VG++, Sl Edgewear. 1st UK Edition. Strange murder mystery set in the Phillipines. Author's second novel. A full condition report for this book is available on request.
Price: $10.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 001326 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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Ancient Japan
Kidder, J. Edward
ISBN: 0729000478
Oxford Elsevier-Phaidon 1977
4to hardcover 152pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 34802 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Ancient Tales & Folklore of Japan
Richard Gordon Smith
ISBN: 1859580793
Senate / Random House London, England 1995 Reprint
Soft Cover 360 pages. Black and white illustrations. Minor creasing to spine, edges and corners of cover. Very Good
Price: $9.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 040099 Bookseller: Leura Books
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At War with the Wind; The Epic Struggle with Japan’s World War II Suicide Bombers
Sears, David
ISBN: 9780806528946
Citadel Press New York 2008 First Edition
Trade Format Paperback Photographic Card 800 g.; (7) VIII (3) 2-502 pages, notes, glossary, sources and acknowledgements, citations, Roll Call and index, the text is illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs between page 246 and 247. Colourised photographic cover with blue, ochre and black titles to the front panel and white and blue titles to the backstrip. A little creasing to the book corners. " In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorised the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learn to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as "suiciders"; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze." -- From the rear panel blurb. A history of that fearsome time. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Military History - WWII Very Good
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0110667 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Bachelor’s Japan
De Mente, Boye Lafayette
ISBN: 0804816921
Yenbooks Tokyo 1992 Reprint
Soft Cover VG++, Mild Wear. "A tour of the 'mizu shobai', ... the sex and liquor industry ...of Japan's exotic water trade". Cover design by Jude Brand. 159 pages, including the glossary. Expanded condition report/scan on request.
Price: $7.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 016131 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
ISBN: 0671880187
Washington Square Press New York, USA 1988 First Edition
Soft Cover 152 pages. Translated from Japanese by Megan Backus. Contents: Kitchen; Moonlight Shadow. Good to Very Good
Price: $7.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 027112 Bookseller: Leura Books
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Battleground Atlantic; How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Ensured the Outcome of World War II
Billings, Richard N.
ISBN: 9780451220455
NAL Caliber New York 2006 First Edition
Large Format Paperback Paperback 355 g.; VIII, 312 pages, bibliography and index. Black-and-white photograph of author to the last page of the text. Photographic front cover with gold and black titles to the front panel and white, gold and black titles to the backstrip. Creasing to the book corners. On June 24, 1944 the Japanese submarine known as the I-52 was sunk by American warplanes in the mid-Atlantic. This one submarines sinking ensured the outcome of World War II. Its payload was radiological ingredients to make a "dirty bomb" and gold bullion to finance the making of said bomb. That this submarine was carrying such cargo remained a US military secret for many years. This book goes in to the history of the I-52, it sinking and more importantly its attempted salvage from 18,000 feet below the surface of the sea in the mid-Atlantic. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Military History - WWII Very Good
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0109279 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Blossoms in the Wind; Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
Sheftal, M.G
ISBN: 0451214870
New American Library New York 2006 First American Paperback
Trade Format Paperback Photographic Card 680 g.; (6) VII-X (3) 3-430 pages, (6), bibliography, suggested reading and index. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photography between page 244 and 245 . Sepia toned photographic cover with gold and black titles to the front panel and gold and pale yellow titles to the backstrip. Minor creasing to the book corners. " By October 1944, Japan was fighting for life against the unstoppable Allied juggernaut. In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, the Japanese high command unleashed the kamikaze -- idealistic young men who believed there was no greater glory than sacrificing their lives to defend their homeland. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle -- and lived? Soon after the 9/11 attacks that shattered the peace of his own country, ethnographer M.G. Sheftall was given unprecedented access to the rements of Japan's kamikaze corps of survivors -- pilots who, through chance or fate, were prevented from completing their final missions. There are poignant stories of courage and Kumari, a fanatical devotion to a lost cause, of the mass indoctrination of the entire people into a cult of death -- and of brotherhood, forged in the fire of war, that would last through six decades of peace." -- From the rear panel blurb. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Military History -- Aviation Very Good
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0110670 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Botchan
Natsume, Soseki, translated by Umeji Sasaki
ISBN: 0804800715
Charles E. Tuttle Company Tokyo, Japan 1981 Twenty-fourth Printing
Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hardcover Pages clean and tightly bound. spine slightly slanted. Spine of dj faded Very Good
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: s15532 Bookseller: Leura Books
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Brrm! Brrm!
Clive James
ISBN: 0330325485
Picador London, Great Britain 1992
Soft Cover 160 pages.There is foxing to pages. Good
Price: $5.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 026542 Bookseller: Leura Books
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Brrm! Brrm!
Clive James
ISBN: 0330325485
Picador London, Great Britain 1992 First Edition
Soft Cover 160 pages. Very minor creasing to spine, edges and corners of book cover. Very minor foxing to page edges and titlepage. Very Good
Price: $5.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 060387 Bookseller: Leura Books
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Children of Hachiman
Guest, Lynn
ISBN: 0370303113
Bodley Head London 1980 1st Edition
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Historical drama, set in medieval Japan. 'Winner of the 1980 Historical Novel Prize in Memory of Georgette Heyer'. Jacket by Leslie Harcourt. Expanded condition report/scan on request. VG++, Sp Crease, Pencil Ghost
Price: $10.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 000401 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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Children’s Days in Japan
Iwado, Tamotsu
Maruzen Co Ltd Japan 1936 First Edition
Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall Illustrated Card 84pp., editorial note, bibliography. Coloured Illustrated frontispiece, by Takewo Takei, showing children playing battledore and shuttlecock at New Year. The text is illustrated with numerous two toned illustrations and the occasional full-page colour illustration, again by Takewo Takei. Grey coloured covers, showing "carp streamers flowing on the boys' Festival, May 5". Illustration pasted on front postproduction. All edges of the book are crumpled and there is slight discoloration at the extreme edges as well. Dust marks and browning to the paper edges. Previous owner's name on title page. There has been foxing and watermarking on the half title page and title page. Internal pages are very slightly brown as well. The only part of the glassine cover left, is the front panel. An explanation of the celebration of children's Days in pre-World War II Japan. Part of the Tourist Library -- series -- No. 12. Anthropology Reasonable for Age
Price: $35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0102971 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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City of Torture
Bent, James
Horwitz Sydney 1963 1st Edition
Mass Market Paperback Pulp fiction set in Japanese-occupied Singapore. Book # PB146. Expanded condition report/scan on request. G, Abrasion, Creases, Browning
Price: $7.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 006132 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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Collisions in the New Edo
Henderson, Tony
ISBN: 9627919012
Omega Press Hong Kong 1994 1st Edition
Soft Cover VG, wear, fading, indentations, browning/NO DUST JACKET. Modern adventure, set in Japan. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Cover by John Shramenko. Expanded condition report/scan on request.
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 017123 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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Crafts and Trades of Japan with Doll-and-Flower Arrangements
Chandler, Billie T.
Charles E. Tuttle Co. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan 1964 First American Edition
Square Duodecimo Fabric-Covered Boards 58 pages, last blank, introduction by author, acknowledgements. Coloured photographic frontispiece showing a potter figurine against a small flower arrangement. The text is illustrated with 11 coloured photographs by Shigemasa Nagai. The boards are covered with numerous small gilt surrounded illustrations against a black background, in cloth, with a buff coloured insert pasted on the top right-hand corner of the front panel and also on the spine postproduction with black writing within both the inserts. There appears to be a little rubbing of the top and bottom book edges and bumping to the head and to the spine. The spine is cocked. Browning and foxing to the top paper edge handling marks to the endpapers and original owners named to the top edge of the half title page. Original clear laminated dustwrapper still in situ. There has been some rubbing and slight chipping to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the top edge of the rear panel. With the passage of time the dustwrapper appears to have " shrunk " and consequently has caused the cocking of the boards. A small book celebrating the arts and crafts of Japan along with the very Japanese art of flower arranging. Each art and or craft is represented by a small doll or figurine. On the free front end paper, the original advertising card is still in situ [ wraparound ]. Fine Arts Reasonable for Age
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0103670 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Creating Japanese Gardens
Philip Cave
ISBN: 1854102125
Aurum Press London, England. 1993 First Edition
Dust jacket protected with new plastic covering. Hard Cover 176 pages. Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe. Scuffing to dust jacket with few closed tears to corners. Minor scuffing to hard cover corners and spine. Good
Price: $12.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 054505 Bookseller: Leura Books
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Cry Slaughter!
Tiempo, E K
London: Allan Wingate, 1959
VG++, Bumping/VG+, E-wear, Creases, Browning. 1st Edition. Novel set in the Philipines during the Japanese Occupation. A full condition report for this book is available on request.
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 001446 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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Darkness in Summer
Takeshi Kaiko (Transl Cecilia Segawa Seigle)
ISBN: 0720607256
Peter Owen London 1988 1st UK Edition
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Drama. Jacket by Keith Cunningham. Inscribed opposite the title-page "To Tom Kaye, Looking forward to a lasting friendship. / Cecilia Segawa Seigle". Expanded condition report/scan on request. VG+, Wear, Bumps, Soiling
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 011411 Bookseller: Klanhorn
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