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	STANLEY-BAKER, JOAN Japanese Art London and New York, Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser. 1984. (ISBN: 0500201927) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint, 1995. 216 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Profusely illustrated. "When it was first published, this book was immediately recognized as the best critical overview available on the subject. The arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the present are surveyed authoritatively and provocatively, bringing together the most recent research on the subject." - Publisher. Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 003558 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	STANLEY-BAKER, JOAN Japanese Art London and New York, Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser. 1984. (ISBN: 0500201927) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 216 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 21 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated. Another copy available. "When it was first published, this book was immediately recognized as the best critical overview available on the subject. The arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the present are surveyed authoritatively and provocatively, bringing together the most recent research on the subject." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 007199 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BALDWIN, FRANK (EDITED BY) From Politics to Lifestyles: Japan in Print, II Ithaca, NY, China-Japan Program, Cornell University. 1986. Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 147 pp. biblio.; 22 cm. Cornell University East Asia Papers Ser. no. 42. AS NEW. Please note: Volume Two only. "Selected articles from the Japanese press." ISSN 8756-5293. Fine. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 017112 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	DREW, PHILIP Architecture of Arata Isozaki New York, Harper & Row; Icon Editions Ser. 1982. (ISBN: 0064315509) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library, First American Edition. 206 pp. illus. biblio. index; 26 cm. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings, otherwise very good. No writing in text. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Good/Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 004079 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ISHIGURO, KAZUO An Artist of the Floating World New York, Vintage Books; Vintage International Ser. 1989, Reprint. (ISBN: 0679722661) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 206 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel. / Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of five novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international bestseller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter." - Publisher. Fine. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 022088 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ISHII, KANJI (PHOTOGRAPHS BY), AND JANOWITZ, TAMA (TEXT BY) New York: Photographs by Kanji Ishii New York, Assouline Publishing. 2006. (ISBN: 2843239664) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, Cloth, 976 pp. chiefly col. illus. filmography, biblio. index; 22 cm. With photos by Petra Mason. Issued in a slipcase. AS NEW. Fine DJ & slipcase. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Fine/Fine. USD 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7061] Book number: 037121 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SENOH, KAPPA; BESTER, JOHN (TRANSLATED BY) A Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan Tokyo, New York, London, Kodansha International. 1999, First edition thus. (ISBN: 4770023251) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, 528 pp.; 24 cm. Kan Yamaguchi Ser. First published, 1997, under title: Shonen H. Translated from the Japanese. Near fine. Miniscule initials and date handwritten on the front free endpaper, otherwise fine. Appears unread. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "He might easily have been a perfectly ordinary schoolboy.. If, say, he hadn't happened to be born in Japan, just when that country was embarking on the militaristic course that would lead to its ruin before he was out of his teens.. If his family hadn't been just out-of-the-ordinary enough to make him a nonconformist in an overwhelmingly conformist society.. And if, above all, he hadn't had a precociously inquiring mind that would never be fobbed off with an easy answer.. But he was, and he had -- and the final result is this personal account of his boyhood, a story so readable and so full of resonances subtly linking past and present that it became a runaway best-seller in Japan and other parts of Asia. The episodes he describes in fifty short chapters range from humorous scenes of domestic life to the pathetic suicide of an army deserter; from an affectionate picture of country life to the horror of the fire bombs; from the naive celebrations of early victories to the frank bitterness of a war widow; from shock and relief at the Emperor's speech ending the war to the first encounters with the occupation forces; from the author's boyish exploits to the crisis of approaching adulthood that nearly ends his life. The final effect is of a mosaic. The pieces are multicolored, but they come together to form, not one, but two pictures -- of the development under extraordinary conditions of a boy who isn't especially virtuous or charitable and may at times be annoyingly overconfident, but who is basically likable and sensitive; and of a particular nation rushing half-blind into a great conflict that could only end in tragedy. A rich, immediately accessible, eminently enjoyable double portrait that sheds new light on a turbulent period in history, A Boy Called H surely deserves a similar success in the West as well. / On leaving school, KAPPA SENOH worked as a graphic designer before making his largely self-taught debut as a stage designer in 1954. Since then his work for the theater, as well as for operas and musicals, has made him one of Japan's leading artists in the field and won him many awards. He is also known as a best-selling essayist and illustrator, especially for his 'Kappa Takes a Look at ..' travel book series on various parts of the world, with their uniquely detailed drawings. A Boy Called H is his first venture into full-length book form. The translator, JOHN BESTER, an Englishman who has lived most of his life in Japan, is one of the foremost translators of Japanese literature. Among his translations are works by Masuji Ibuse, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kenji Miyazawa. In 1990 he received the first Noma Translation Award." - Publisher. Very Good/Fine. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 037586 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LIFTON, BETTY JEAN (TEXT BY), AND HOSOE, EIKOH (PHOTOGRAPHS BY) A Place Called Hiroshima Tokyo and New York, Kodansha International. 1990, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0870119613) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 151 pp. illus.; 26 cm. First published, 1985. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Very Good. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 035518 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MAEKAWA, KUNIO, AND MIYAUCHI, YOSHIHISA Maekawa Kunio sakuhinshu: Kenchiku no Hoho Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppansha. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 456860026X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible, Cloth, 2 vols. illus. bib. notes, index; 31 cm. Issued in a slipcase. COMPLETE SET: 2 volumes in fine condition, in the original cardboard slipcase. A monograph on the Japanese architect Maekawa Kunio, who worked with Le Corbusier in the 1920s. Volume 1 is entirely in Japanese and consists of architectural plans and photographs. Volume 2 has a lengthy essay in Japanese and English, titled "Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of a Japanese Modernist Aesthetic," by Jonathan M. Reynolds. Fine/Fine. USD 700.00 [Appr.: EURO 467 \| £UK 420.75 \| JP¥ 61780] Book number: 037462 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MORTON, W. SCOTT (WILLIAM SCOTT) Japan, Its History and Culture New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1984, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0070434220) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 267 pp. illus. map, biblio. index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Very Good. USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1147] Book number: 036730 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	WARNER, LANGDON The Enduring Art of Japan New York, Grove Press. 1952. (ISBN: 0802131328) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 113 pp. [62] pp. of plates, illus.; 21 cm. Evergreen book; E 97. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp, otherwise unmarked. Very Good. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 530] Book number: AIM_1701360376 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	YOSHIMURA, JUNZO House Manners Japan, Junzo Yoshimura. 1991. (ISBN: 4418915141) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 205 pp.; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine. USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 \| £UK 33.25 \| JP¥ 4854] Book number: 038093 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.

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	STANLEY-BAKER, JOAN Japanese Art London and New York, Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser. 1984. (ISBN: 0500201927) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint, 1995. 216 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Profusely illustrated. "When it was first published, this book was immediately recognized as the best critical overview available on the subject. The arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the present are surveyed authoritatively and provocatively, bringing together the most recent research on the subject." - Publisher. Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 003558 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	STANLEY-BAKER, JOAN Japanese Art London and New York, Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser. 1984. (ISBN: 0500201927) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 216 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 21 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated. Another copy available. "When it was first published, this book was immediately recognized as the best critical overview available on the subject. The arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the present are surveyed authoritatively and provocatively, bringing together the most recent research on the subject." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 007199 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BALDWIN, FRANK (EDITED BY) From Politics to Lifestyles: Japan in Print, II Ithaca, NY, China-Japan Program, Cornell University. 1986. Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 147 pp. biblio.; 22 cm. Cornell University East Asia Papers Ser. no. 42. AS NEW. Please note: Volume Two only. "Selected articles from the Japanese press." ISSN 8756-5293. Fine. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 017112 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	DREW, PHILIP Architecture of Arata Isozaki New York, Harper & Row; Icon Editions Ser. 1982. (ISBN: 0064315509) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library, First American Edition. 206 pp. illus. biblio. index; 26 cm. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings, otherwise very good. No writing in text. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Good/Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 004079 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ISHIGURO, KAZUO An Artist of the Floating World New York, Vintage Books; Vintage International Ser. 1989, Reprint. (ISBN: 0679722661) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 206 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel. / Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of five novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international bestseller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter." - Publisher. Fine. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 022088 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ISHII, KANJI (PHOTOGRAPHS BY), AND JANOWITZ, TAMA (TEXT BY) New York: Photographs by Kanji Ishii New York, Assouline Publishing. 2006. (ISBN: 2843239664) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, Cloth, 976 pp. chiefly col. illus. filmography, biblio. index; 22 cm. With photos by Petra Mason. Issued in a slipcase. AS NEW. Fine DJ & slipcase. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Fine/Fine. USD 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7061] Book number: 037121 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SENOH, KAPPA; BESTER, JOHN (TRANSLATED BY) A Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan Tokyo, New York, London, Kodansha International. 1999, First edition thus. (ISBN: 4770023251) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, 528 pp.; 24 cm. Kan Yamaguchi Ser. First published, 1997, under title: Shonen H. Translated from the Japanese. Near fine. Miniscule initials and date handwritten on the front free endpaper, otherwise fine. Appears unread. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "He might easily have been a perfectly ordinary schoolboy.. If, say, he hadn't happened to be born in Japan, just when that country was embarking on the militaristic course that would lead to its ruin before he was out of his teens.. If his family hadn't been just out-of-the-ordinary enough to make him a nonconformist in an overwhelmingly conformist society.. And if, above all, he hadn't had a precociously inquiring mind that would never be fobbed off with an easy answer.. But he was, and he had -- and the final result is this personal account of his boyhood, a story so readable and so full of resonances subtly linking past and present that it became a runaway best-seller in Japan and other parts of Asia. The episodes he describes in fifty short chapters range from humorous scenes of domestic life to the pathetic suicide of an army deserter; from an affectionate picture of country life to the horror of the fire bombs; from the naive celebrations of early victories to the frank bitterness of a war widow; from shock and relief at the Emperor's speech ending the war to the first encounters with the occupation forces; from the author's boyish exploits to the crisis of approaching adulthood that nearly ends his life. The final effect is of a mosaic. The pieces are multicolored, but they come together to form, not one, but two pictures -- of the development under extraordinary conditions of a boy who isn't especially virtuous or charitable and may at times be annoyingly overconfident, but who is basically likable and sensitive; and of a particular nation rushing half-blind into a great conflict that could only end in tragedy. A rich, immediately accessible, eminently enjoyable double portrait that sheds new light on a turbulent period in history, A Boy Called H surely deserves a similar success in the West as well. / On leaving school, KAPPA SENOH worked as a graphic designer before making his largely self-taught debut as a stage designer in 1954. Since then his work for the theater, as well as for operas and musicals, has made him one of Japan's leading artists in the field and won him many awards. He is also known as a best-selling essayist and illustrator, especially for his 'Kappa Takes a Look at ..' travel book series on various parts of the world, with their uniquely detailed drawings. A Boy Called H is his first venture into full-length book form. The translator, JOHN BESTER, an Englishman who has lived most of his life in Japan, is one of the foremost translators of Japanese literature. Among his translations are works by Masuji Ibuse, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kenji Miyazawa. In 1990 he received the first Noma Translation Award." - Publisher. Very Good/Fine. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 037586 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LIFTON, BETTY JEAN (TEXT BY), AND HOSOE, EIKOH (PHOTOGRAPHS BY) A Place Called Hiroshima Tokyo and New York, Kodansha International. 1990, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0870119613) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 151 pp. illus.; 26 cm. First published, 1985. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Very Good. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 035518 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MAEKAWA, KUNIO, AND MIYAUCHI, YOSHIHISA Maekawa Kunio sakuhinshu: Kenchiku no Hoho Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppansha. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 456860026X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible, Cloth, 2 vols. illus. bib. notes, index; 31 cm. Issued in a slipcase. COMPLETE SET: 2 volumes in fine condition, in the original cardboard slipcase. A monograph on the Japanese architect Maekawa Kunio, who worked with Le Corbusier in the 1920s. Volume 1 is entirely in Japanese and consists of architectural plans and photographs. Volume 2 has a lengthy essay in Japanese and English, titled "Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of a Japanese Modernist Aesthetic," by Jonathan M. Reynolds. Fine/Fine. USD 700.00 [Appr.: EURO 467 \| £UK 420.75 \| JP¥ 61780] Book number: 037462 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MORTON, W. SCOTT (WILLIAM SCOTT) Japan, Its History and Culture New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1984, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0070434220) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 267 pp. illus. map, biblio. index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Very Good. USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1147] Book number: 036730 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	WARNER, LANGDON The Enduring Art of Japan New York, Grove Press. 1952. (ISBN: 0802131328) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 113 pp. [62] pp. of plates, illus.; 21 cm. Evergreen book; E 97. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp, otherwise unmarked. Very Good. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 530] Book number: AIM_1701360376 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	YOSHIMURA, JUNZO House Manners Japan, Junzo Yoshimura. 1991. (ISBN: 4418915141) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 205 pp.; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine. USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 \| £UK 33.25 \| JP¥ 4854] Book number: 038093 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.