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Image for We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.

We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.

By: de Garis, Frederic, Sakai, Atsuharu and Yamaguchi, H.D.K.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Yokohama, Japan, Yamagata Press: 1947

Seller ID: 312

PUBLISHED 2 YEARS AFTER END OF WW2: HISTORY AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN--2 ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BINDINGS SIGNED BY AUTHOR, PRESIDENT OF FAMOUS HOTEL. Two volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall, silk-covered paper wrappers, traditional Japanese string binding with folded rice paper pages, decorative vertical paper label to covers. Volume 1 signed in ink on front endpaper by Alsuharu Sakai (collaborator) Tokyo, Xmas 1948, with Japanese characters; Volume 2 signed on pictorial frontis by K.M. Yamaguchi, President, Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, 20th Jan, 1949, with Japanese characters...
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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall: 1842

Seller ID: 382

FIRST PRINTING OF DICKENS' NARRATIVE OF VISIT TO AMERICA IN 1842, CRITICAL OF SLAVERY. Two volumes in one; 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, contemporary 3/4 pebbled calf with marbled boards, marbled endpapers; covers and edges rubbed, light foxing to first and last pages, text unmarked, binding strong, overall very good. First issue with second page of Table of Contents numbered xvi. American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June 1842. Whilst there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost a...
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A Little Tour in France

By: James, Henry

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, James R. Osgood and Co.: 1885

Seller ID: 385

1885 FIRST EDITION OF HENRY JAMES' IMPRESSIONS OF PROVINCIAL FRANCE. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blindstamped pebbled cloth binding, spine gilt with title and publisher's colophon, text unmarked, binding solid, very good. A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others.
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Africa. Vol. I. North Africa; Vol. II. South Africa

By: Keane AH;

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Edward Stanford: 1895

Seller ID: 140

1895 FINE BINDINGS - KEANE'S 2-VOLUME ILLUSTRATED GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF AFRICA. 7 1/2 inches full green leather prize bindings, with gilt emblems on front covers of Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire, England (Victorian public school opened in July 1841), and on back covers of Jex-Blake (Bene praeparatum pectus [a heart well-prepared]), spines with raised bands, gilt brown and red leather labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Vol. I. xvi, 639 pages, 9 color folding maps, 77 illustrations; Vol. II. xvi, 672 pages, 11 color maps, 92 illustrations. Clean and unmarked, very good. AUGUSTUS ...
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Pen Pictures of Japan

By: Madden, Maude W.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Tokyo, The Hokuseido Press: 1939

Seller ID: 365

RARE SIGNED BEAUTIFULLY BOUND ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF POETRY BY AMERICAN MISSIONARY IN JAPAN. 6 1/2 inches tall book in brown textured silk covered card folding cover with bone clasps, traditional Japanese silk thread bound silk covers with paper title label to cover, and folding rice paper text, signed and dated by author, Maude W. Madden, 1941, on half title. Dedicated To the Japanese people,/ Among whom I've lived/ Many worth while years. MAUDE WHITMORE MADDEN was married to Rev. Milton Madden, graduate of Bethany College, West Virginia, whose family were missionaries of the First Christian Chu...
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Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Hartford and New York, American Publishing Co., Doubleday & McClure Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 333

FIRST EDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND ILLUSTRATED FINAL TRAVEL BOOK BY MARK TWAIN. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original publisher's blue cloth binding with decorative gilt colored elephant to cover, decorative gilt title to spine, decorative bookplate of Cornelius E. Durkee to front paste-down, small printed portraits of Twain affixed to front endpaper, frontis of author with tissue guard, illustrations by Dan Beard, A.B. Frost, B.W. Clinedinst, Frederick Dielman, Peter Newell, F.M. Seinor, T.J. Fogarty, C.H. Warren, A.G. Reinhart, F. Berkeley Smith, and C. Allan Gilbert. Light rubbing to covers un...
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Image for The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims' Progress; being some account of the steamship QQuaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Lalnd; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the Author. With tow hundred and thirty-four illustrations

The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims' Progress; being some account of the steamship QQuaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Lalnd; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the Author. With tow hundred and thirty-four illustrations

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Co.: 1869

Seller ID: 660

1869 FIRST EDITION CONTEMPORARY BINDING OF MARK TWAIN'S BESTSELLING TRAVEL BOOK WITH 234 ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 inches tall hardcover, original 3/4 pebbled leather binding with marbled paper covers, spine with raised bands, gilt title, marbled endpapers and edges, initialed book-label to front paste-down, signature of Eleanor Wilson Jamieson 1893 to front endpaper, 2 steel engravings with tissue guard (frontis and illuminated title page), xviii, 220 illustrations in text, 14 leaves of plates, 651 pp, 5 pp publisher's ads (History of the Bible on p [654] - 3rd state of first edition). Covers rubbed,...
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We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.

American Notes for General Circulation

A Little Tour in France

Africa. Vol. I. North Africa; Vol. II. South Africa

Pen Pictures of Japan

Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World

The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims' Progress; being some account of the steamship QQuaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Lalnd; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the Author. With tow hundred and thirty-four illustrations