Yashima Mitsu (30 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Yashima, Mitsu (illustrator). 1st Edition- 1ST PRT. FINE IN VERY GOOD+ DJ. Folklore about a farmer who digs up a huge imo (yam). Ed Young style pencil drawings BY Japanese artist MITSU YASHIMA. Illustrated by Yashima, Mitsu. 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (Japan, Juvenile Fiction) A reading only copy. Boards/spine/hinges may be broken, detached, or missing. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes/highlighting, be heavily stained, or detached. May be missing non-text pages (e.g. end pages, half title, title, frontispiece.).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. 4to; cloth in pictorial jacket with moderate wear and tanning. Very Good dust , in protective mylar wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Yashima, Taro & Mitsu (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tara Yashima has won CALDECOTT HONOR 3x (CROW BOY, etc). In this simple, poignant tale, a young boy tells about all the things he watches every day after he leaves his village school. Outstanding art. 1st prt. Yellow cloth with bright design. Slight wear to edges, small prior owner's name on half-title page.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Very large, thinner children's book, yellow cloth very slightly soiled with red circle design at top front, red lettering on spine very fine, variety of blue colors with homes illustrated inside covers and adjacent end papers, 39 pages, beautiful color-illustrations of daily life in a Japanese village throughout, some full-page. Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Yashima, Taro (illustrator). Second Printing. Second printing. Yellow, illustrated cloth, oblong, 33 pp. This copy has been privately owned, in library binding, but never in a library. Text and illustrations are AS NEW--pages are bright, crisp, very fresh. Jacket is has a bit of dust and mild wear to caps and corner, small piece out at top spine, a tear at top front panel, but bright and crisp. Trade price has been clipped at top flap; library price intact at bottom flap. Difficult to find in this kind of condition. Lovely color quality; really nice. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Gr.-8°, Leinen mit Umschlag-O. Condition: Gut. 39 S., Mit zahlreichen farbigen Abbildungen, sauberes Exemplar. 204736_Kinderb. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Yashima, Taro (illustrator). First Edition. Beautiful first printing copy of this beloved book, signed by Taro Yashima, also adding his special ink imprint. He also painted a girl doll and a cat doll in watercolors near his signature; this measures 4.5x4 inches. Light green cloth boards with blue ink illustration of cat collar with a bell; blue lettering to spine. Bright and lovely illustrated endpapers. Very clean and crisp copy; no writing or marks (apart from Yashima's). Just a touch of rubbing to tips, else a FINE copy. Gorgeous color quality! Scarce in such lovely condition. Not inscribed to anyone. No dust jacket. Please see photos. Signed, with Original Watercol.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. US hardback first impression from 1961. Near fine with previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, in near fine unclipped jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Acceptable. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Yellow cloth, lettered in red. A very clean, tight copy. Without names or bookplate. The dust jacket has foxing to the exterior and the underside. A few short tears. Minor soiling. Price of $2.50 to the front flap. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Yashima, Taro (illustrator). Seventh Printing. Yellow cloth -- LIKE NEW. Crisp, clean, FINE un-clipped ($5.95) jacket. Taro Yashima's second picture book about his childhood and illustrated by his wife, recreates the heart of Japan. An exceptional copy.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Ninth Printing -- Inscribed, Signed and dated (1972) by author on front end paper reverse with two sketches -- see images. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down end paper, else a Fine copy in price-clipped jacket with barely visable small tear. A Caldecott Honor book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Thin quarto. Two small abrasions at the bottom of the boards, near fine in attractive very good or better dustwrapper with a few small chips and tears. A handsome copy.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition of this scarce Yashima title, in which their daughter Momo brings home a stray cat. Taro and his wife Mitsu, real names Jun Iwamatsu and Tomoe Sasako, were antifascist activists in addition to artists; they met in the Japanese Proletarian Artists' League. After being arrested and tortured by the Japanese government for their activism, they fled to America; they took on their pseudonyms when they were hired by the Office of War Information, and later the Office of Strategic Services, to protect their family still living in Japan. They produced anti-military propaganda for Japanese consumption in various forms throughout World War II, including illustrating handbills for dropping over battlefields. The Yashimas began writing children's books for Momo, their American-born daughter. While these were originally recollections life as a child in Japan, as Momo grew, they began writing stories about her American childhood. They capture a snapshot of the life of a midcentury Asian American family. 8'' x 9.25''. Original green publisher's cloth binding with blue stamped titles and design. Original color pictorial dust jacket, unclipped ($2.50). Color pictorial endpapers of leaves and flowers. Illustrated in color throughout. 33 pages. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with light soil. Small scuff to extreme edge of front board, spine ends mildly bumped. Vibrant and sharp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Early edition of the charming tale of a walk home from school through a lively Japanese village, inscribed and with a stunning original watercolor by Yashima. Taro and his wife Mitsu, real names Jun Iwamatsu and Tomoe Sasako, were antifascist activists in addition to artists; they met in the Japanese Proletarian Artists' League. After being arrested and tortured by the Japanese government for their activism, they fled to America; they took on their pseudonyms when they were hired by the Office of War Information, and later the Office of Strategic Services, to protect their family still living in Japan. They produced anti-military propaganda for Japanese consumption in various forms throughout World War II, including illustrating handbills for dropping over battlefields. After the war, Taro and Mitsu wrote PLENTY TO WATCH and their other children's books to tell their American-born daughter Momo about life in Japan before the war. Based on Taro's childhood in a small village, this story brings to life all of the active workshops and craftspeople of early 20th century Japan. 10'' x 7.5''. Original yellow publisher's cloth binding with red stamped titles and designs. Original color pictorial dust jacket, unclipped ($2.75). Pictorial front endpapers with scenes of the Japanese summer. Illustrated in color throughout. 39 pages. Original watercolor artwork to verso of front flyleaf by Taro Yashima of a bird in flight over a nest of eggs, inscribed, stamped, and dated "Dec. 16, 1959."Some rubbing and chipping to extremities of dust jacket, with 1" of loss to top and bottom of spine. Corners and spine ends of binding very lightly bumped, with light toning to top edge. A sound and vibrant copy. Near fine in very good minus dust jacket. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Inscribed first edition of the charming tale of a walk home from school through a lively Japanese village, with an original watercolor by Yashima. Taro and his wife Mitsu, real names Jun Iwamatsu and Tomoe Sasako, were antifascist activists in addition to artists; they met in the Japanese Proletarian Artists' League. After being arrested and tortured by the Japanese government for their activism, they fled to America; they took on their pseudonyms when they were hired by the Office of War Information, and later the Office of Strategic Services, to protect their family still living in Japan. They produced anti-military propaganda for Japanese consumption in various forms throughout World War II, including illustrating handbills for dropping over battlefields. After the war, Taro and Mitsu wrote PLENTY TO WATCH and their other children's books to tell their American-born daughter Momo about life in Japan before the war. Based on Taro's childhood in a small village, this story brings to life all of the active workshops and craftspeople of early 20th century Japan. 10'' x 7.5''. Original yellow publisher's cloth binding with red stamped titles and designs. Original color pictorial dust jacket, awkwardly price-clipped. Pictorial front endpapers with scenes of the Japanese summer. Illustrated in color throughout. 39 pages. Original watercolor artwork to verso of front flyleaf by Taro Yashima of a flowering branch and kanji, signed, stamped, and dated "Dec. 2, 1957." Dust jacket with chipping and wear to extremities; long tear to spine, repaired with tape on verso. Corners and spine ends of binding very lightly bumped, boards mildly bowed. A sound and vibrant copy. Near fine in good plus dust jacket. Signed.