T Kawata Editor (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. A very rare volume. Moderate scuffs, soils, edge wear, with some creasing and fading. An adequate readable copy. A detailed report. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. A very rare volume. Moderate scuffs, soils, edge wear, with some creasing and fading. An adequate readable copy. A detailed report. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. very good condition in red-orange cloth with a leather spine- there is a bit of wear & bumping - no dust jacket.

Endpaper map, lacking the folding colour woodblock illustration, illustrations (black and white and over 200 colour illustrations), geographical sections separately paginated, thumb indexed, index of contents, index of advertisers, bevelled boards. An ex-library copy with the usual markings, endpapers little browned, pictorial cloth a little marked and slightly shelf worn, still a good firm copy. 25.5 x 18cm. This illustrated guide is filled with interesting adverts, illustrations and short articles on the places visited by the NYK line. Includes Taiwan, Korea, Manchoukuo, Burma and Ceylon, Java and the Celebes, Straits settlements, Siam, Indo-China, Philippines, Hong Kong, Korea and China. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Many pages with separate page numbering within each section. Regional colorized and black-and-white photos, as well as advertisements for each regions serviced by the N.Y.K. Line. Cover wear & soiling, joint is mostly split between front cover & spine, book block is detached with front detachment after foreword page and rear detachment between back cover & FFEP, binding is also pulling apart near the middle.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tokyo, Japan: Published By T. Kawata for Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 1927. Various paginations. 26.5 x 20.5 cm. Maroon faux-leather patterned cloth covered boards with lettering and illustrations stamped in gilt, silver, yellow, and in blind on cover and spine. Rubbing and light bumps to spine ends and corners of boards. Some light soil to cover and spine, with some dulling and oss to gilt and ink. Moderate age toning and spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's address label at head of front pastedown. Light toning to extremities of pages, which are otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Published annually for shippers, business persons, and travellers alike, the Glimpses of the East guides featured photos, articles, fact charts, and ads for the countries on the N.Y.K. shipping routes. No copies of this edition found in OCLC/WorldCat. Hard Cover. Very Good.…

Maps, illustrated with black and white images from photographs, some coloured. Illustrated advertisements for each region. Thumb-index lettered in gilt. A clean and sound copy in very good order. The text is divided into sections including adverts, contains 95pp on Japan, 137pp on Taiwan and Chosen, Hong Kong 23pp, Philippines 35pp, French IndoChina 26pp, Straits Siam 25pp,Java 41pp, British India 25 pp, Burmah Ceylon 24pp, Australia 14 pp, South Africa 8pp, Egypt 7pp, Italy Swiss 9pp, France 12pp, Germany 20pp, Holland Belgium 19pp, Great Britain 25pp, British Columbia 9pp, United States 46pp and South America 17 pages. The advertisments, which are one of the special features of these NYK annuals, has been enhanced in this issue by their classification by trade and arranged alphabetically. …

Rebacked with the original spine laid down, modern endpapers, decorative spine considerably marked and rubbed, lettering of title on spine largely obliterated, corners worn, boards marked and worn, edges rubbed and chipped, photographic illustrations in black and white and colour, geographical sections separately paginated, over 700 pages in total, thumb indexed, index of contents, index of advertisers. The contents are clean and sound and have recently been recased. A sound and clean copy with a worn binding as noted and better than it sounds. 25.5 x 19cm. This profusely illustrated guide is filled with interesting adverts, illustrations and short articles on the places visited by the NYK line. Includes Taiwan, Chosen (Korea), Manchoukuo, Burma and Ceylon, Java and the Celebes, Straits settlements, Siam, Indo-China, Philippines, Hong Kong and China.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Official Shipper's & Traveller's Guide to all the ports in the world produced by Nippon Yusen Kaisha ( The Japan Mail Steamship Co., Ltd) Covers all Asian countries, Europe, USA and Canada. Articles with colour and b&w photos and many pages of period advertisements. Over 600pp. Original pebble-grained pictorial cloth covers. The book has been rebacked in red cloth. Edges rubbed, a few scuffs to the front board. Contents clean. 4to, 600+ pp, 2.64kg. Please enquire for costs for overseas shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG++. 1st Edition. Minor rubbing to top of spine and tips otherwise quite a nice copy of this scarce edition of this large profusely illustrated Japanese commercial guide that includes the first section on Manchoukuo, the chunk of China Japan occupied in 1932. Quite an amazing book, actually, which will require Extra Postage due to its size and weight. Illustrated (illustrator).…