Hardcover. Near fine. 11.75" x 9.5" accordion-fold album with 12 color woodblock prints mounted to thick cardstock leaves (one side only), each measuring 8.25" x 7" and signed by the artist, who we have not identified. Each print shows one or two Gosho Ningyo -- traditional Japanese dolls often gifted..... Item #24444
Carte de visite photograph of Frances Coryell (here spelled Coryel), "a Hindoo girl buried alive by her heathen parents," sold to raise funds for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Protestant woman's missionary organization founded by Methodists in Boston in 1869. The story of..... Item #21179
Very good. Four photograph albums containing a total of 558 mounted images documenting military training and service in Japan in 1920s and 30s, all in very good condition. Although we acquired these albums together, they appear to have belonged to different people. Most, if not all, were officers. One album..... Item #20997
Japan Hydrogen Industry Co, Ltd. [Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan], 1947. Cloth album, 12 x 8.5 inches, containing 33 silver gelatin photographs mounted to rectos only, with printed captions in English and Japanese on facing pages. Very good. In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied powers recognized the importance..... Item #20999
San Francisco: Cunningham, Curtiss, & Welch. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1890s-1910. 7" x 9", in original string tied wrappers, with 30 printed photographs produced by the Albertype Company of Brooklyn mounted one per page (rectos only), including front cover. With the exception of the oval cover illustration, images are..... Item #24689
Chicago: The Woman's American Baptist Home Missionary Society, 1917. Softcover. Good. 6.75" x 5," 104 pp, illustrated, in original wrappers. A scarce and early first-person account of a visit to the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, where immigrants to the United States -- the majority from Asia..... Item #23858
London: T.Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix, [3], 632, with 8 plates (including frontispiece), five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers, original red spine label preserved, three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue..... Item #15505
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 444 pp + publisher's ads, with 96 illustrations, including color frontispiece. Original red cloth binding decorated in black and gilt, with top edge gilt. Spine a bit dulled, minor abrasion to gilt at top edge; still quite an attractive..... Item #22334
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 367 pp, with index, illustrations from photographs, maps. Bookplate on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in an attractive price-clipped dust jacket with some tiny chips to the top edge. Neate C53..... Item #22444
[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions], [1891]. Softcover. Near fine. Second edition. 18 pp + donation form, in original stapled wrappers. Minor handling wear, else fine. Collection of letters to Rev. Cozad from missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions relating to the organization's work in..... Item #24314
New York: Henry Holt, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 415 pp, with illustrated endpapers, many photographic illustrations. Spine cloth faded, small water stain on front board; internally sound and clean. No dust jacket. Inscribed on the half title page "To Cadet Stanley Payson Blish, Sincerely yours, Hassoldt Davis." A...... Item #22447
Foreign Department, National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associations of the United States, 1919. Softcover. Near fine. 5" x 7", 8 pp, stapled wrappers. A few light stains on front cover, else fine. Describes both in general terms and with specific examples ways in which Indian women and becoming..... Item #24649
London: Gowans & Gray. 15 cm, pp. 42, [6] (publisher's catalogue). Undated, first or early printing (first issued 1911, according to OCLC). Gowan's Inernational Library No. 38 (catalogue at rear lists titles to No. 40). Chipping and a long tear to the delicate dust jacket, internals very good. The author..... Item #24257
Batavia, Java: Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij. Softcover. Good. Undated, c. 1930. Approximately 9 x 12 inches, oblong; [80] pp. Chipped at head and foot of spine, with loss of about 2 inches of paper at the foot, and old tape repairs visible; general shelfwear, binding tender. Gift inscriptions on inside and..... Item #18952
Madras: Higginbotham and Co., 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Scarce first edition of this important compilation of popular songs (with notes by Gover). 299 pp, in a later binding of three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Corners and spine ends rubbed, joints cracking, but..... Item #24347
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 11.25" x 9", 184, (3) pp, with 24 tipped-in color plates reproducing watercolors, bound in original yellow cloth with red lettering. Mild spine slant, light dust soiling to boards, lower corners bumped, gift inscription dated 1976 on front free endpaper..... Item #23337
Kobe, Japan: Mitsumura Printing Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 11 x 14.25 inches, oblong. String-tied decorative cloth boards. Six pages of text, followed by 16 full-page collotype plates and one double-page folding panorama. Light soiling and wear to boards, final leaf with a repair to the margin (not affecting image). National..... Item #20328
Sydney and Brisbane: A. Hutchison & Son, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 6.25", pp xxiv, 690, with 22 tissue-guarded chromilithograph plates. Original cloth binding, Moderate rubbing to edges and corners of boards; binding tight, a few pages with finger smudges, but generally clean. Inglis (1845 -1908) ran..... Item #23376
Nakatsucho, Japan: ca. 1910. Hardcover. Very good. 7.5 x 10.5 in., oblong, in string-tied faux-leather boards. Some edgewear, one tie replaced and one lacking. Very good. Souvenir view book with two pages of text in Japanese, folding map, and 34 half-tone photographic plates captioned in Japanese and English. Located in..... Item #20624
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [34] unnumbered pages, with illustrations in color. Color pictorial boards show moderate rubbing and wear, binding sound, pages clean. No dust jacket. Tale of a happy young boy in China who lives on a farm, but trades places for a...... Item #22167
Madison, Wis. Mrs. F.H. King, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Scarce first edition of this classic work on traditional sustainable farming techniques. King (1848-1911) was a professor of agricultural physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, from 1888 to 1902, during which time he made important contributions to the literature..... Item #24265
New York: John Lane Company, 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 8", xiii, 202 pp, beautifully illustrated with 40 color plates by the author. Bookplate on front pastedown (with another underneath it), light edgewear to boards, some light discoloration to rear board; binding sound, contents clean. Liddell..... Item #23366
New York: Macmillan, 1911. Hardcover. Very good. "New Illustrated Edition." 7.75" x 5.25". 226 pp + publisher's ads, illustrated. Bound in original white cloth with illustration of rising sun in gilt on front cover. Some staining to front joint, small bump to one corner, previous owner's name and small label..... Item #24544
New York: Macmillan, 1895. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. 306 pp, with folding Map of the Kingdom of Kashmir and many illustrations by the author. Lettering and illustration on cloth boards is quite faded, one crack in binding, scattered foxing, old dampstain and private library embossed stamp visible on title..... Item #22446
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xxii, 259 pp, with index, folding map, 66 illustrations from photographs by the author, three color plates by Mrs. A.E. Berry. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. Rubbing to corners and spine ends..... Item #23348
