Compton Walter a Et Al (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is a very good harfcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear, and a very good slipcase that is toned. Very clean inside and out, but a short previous owner name on the dark blue textured front endpaper, faint but there. Otherwise completely clean throughout. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Japan House Gallery in 1976. Essays by Homma Junji, Sato Kanichi, Walter Ames Compton, and Ogawa Morihiro. Illustrated in color and black & white. Maps. The original print is present and fine. 15" high X 10" wide, 134 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.…

paperback. Condition: near fine. Profusely illustrated in color and b/w. 134 pages. Thin folio, original stiff printed wrappers (lightly scuffed). Tokyo: Japan House Gallery, Japan Society, (1976). A near fine copy. Scarce. One of the most significant catalogues of Japanese art Swords.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Folio. Pictorial softcover with blue textured paper endpapers. Black and white diagrams and black and white and colour photographs with complete catalogue of show exhibited at Japan House Gallery in 1976. Light bump to foot of spine and one corners, otherwise a fine copy. In the cardboard shipping box. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. An all-but-immaculate copy of the 1976 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Folio, lovely color and black-and-white photos throughout. The publisher's original card slipcase shows light soiling and offsetting to the panels. The catalogue of the spring 1976 exhibition shown at Japan House Gallery.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The first American edition of the third Joy Street annual, a richly illustrated children's anthology featuring A. A. Milne, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, and many others, in the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. First American edition, published in 1925, following the British first edition issued by Basil Blackwell earlier the same year. Illustrated with eight tipped-in colour plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Vera Hibbert, Doris Palthorpe, A. H. Watson, Hugh Chesterman, Harry Rountree, W. G. Raffe and others. Collated, complete. Complete with the scarce original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, designed by Alec Buckels. The third volume in the Joy Street series, an annual anthology of prose and verse for children, bringing together stories, poems and imaginative pieces by a distinguished group of contemporary writers In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to spine with slight rubbing to extremities resulting in minor fading to the pattern. Very slight discolouration to perimeters of boards with one or two very slight marks. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Slight edge wear to extremities resulting in the odd chip, closed tear, and crease, more so to spine ends, with slight loss. Spine slightly sunned. Minor rubbing to wraps. Slight colour offsetting to inside wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light age toning to fore edge. Near Fine. Vera Hibbert; Doris Palthorpe; A. H. Watson; Hugh Chesterman; Harry Rountree; W. G. Raffe; Et al. (illustrator). book.…

New York 1976, Japan Society. Stiff black wrs., NEW UNUSED, 134p., 38 superb color, 82 b.w. plates, 18 illustrations, folio, ca. 27 x 37 cm., map, folio. * FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . This is one of the most important catalogs on Japanese sword blades & furniture ever issued. Printed in chromolithography on heavy rag paper. Covering Japanese Sword and its Cultural Significance by Homma Junji. On This Exhibiton by K. Sato. . Artistic Quality of the Japanese Sword by Compton. Characteristics of the Japanese Sword & Exhibition Catalogue by M. Ogawa. Statement of Appreciation by Compton. . A superb collection of Tsuba, blades & Midare, Kozuka, Kogai & Menuki. With outline of blades, nomenclature, points of value, appreciation, history of the Japanese sword, shapes, identification of Japanese sword by its characteristics, Koshirae, Kodogu &c. . The exhibition catalog draws upon over 100 examples, each well identified and explained. Explanation of tang form and file-marks, tempering & forging characteristics, engravings, signature, mountings & accessories. . By and large the most valuable reference to any collector's library. R A R E . *** Color photos are posted to our website.…