William R B Acker (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a fine, as new, hardcover first printed edition in a VG mylar protected DJ, blue spine. 84 pages. Photos on request.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 24.5 x 16 cm. 327pp (part 1), part 2 is unpaginated approximately (~100pp). . Two book set; parts one and two of volume two. Bound into brown cloth. Some scattered light pencil notations from a scholar. Volume II covers Chang Yen-Yüan, Le Tai Ming Hua Chi Chapters IV-X. Part one consists of the translation and annotations while part 2 is the Chinese text. Sinica Leidensia editi Institutum Sinologicum Lugduno Batavum Vol. XII.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Beautiful book in folding portfolio case. Text is largely in English, with a Japanese title page and foreword. Book is unmarked, with bright pages. The page edges are lightly age toned. Sewn binding is sturdy. Case shows a little wear around the corners and is faded on the front and around the edges. The title plate on the front of the case is partially torn.…

Set Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volumes. 8vo. Minor bumping to extremities of covers. Some staining to front cover of part 1. VG THE SET.

hardcover. First Edition. Fine in original VG folding card portfolio with ribbon ties. Title page & foreword in Japanese, text in English translation by Aker. Photographs, color and black & white illustrations. Photoprinted, on double leaves in Japanese style, from manuscript copy. xiii, 84 pages. Colophon in Japanese attached to rear inside cover. …

Acker, William R. B. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF JAPANESE ARCHERY. Privately printed, Japan, 1937. 8vo., Japanese style cloth portfolio with bone clasps and paper label, Japanese style sewn binding in pictorial wraps, with accordion folded sheets. Title page in Japanese, 13pp. introduction, six pages of photographs, 84pp text, label in Japanese also saying "Made in Nippon" on the inside rear wrapper. This is the original edition. OCLC locates 12 copies, APBC records no copies at auction. There is a 1965 reprint by Tuttle, a copy of which accompanies this copy. This copy belonged to Duncan Phillips and his wife, who was Acker's sister. The book Fine, the portfolio spine somewhat faded, and with cracks to the inside paper lining at the folds. Very Rare.…