New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Mustard cloth with blue and gilt lettering and decorations. x, 127pp, (6pp ads). Very good. Faintest of spine sunning, else tight and bright. Lovely first edition. More
Tokyo: The Kamakurabunko, 1948. Hardcover. Foreword by Edmund Blunden. 8vo. Beige paper over boards with orange lettering. 50pp. Very good. Faint wear to binding only, else tight and internally near fine. Handsome and tight first edition of the second book by Kenneth Yasuda (1914-2002), well-known Japanese-American translator, poet and scholar..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 514pp. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket wear, with spine age toned. Handsome and tight later printing of #24, first published in this series in 1949..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Translation by Carlyle-Wicksteed. Introduction by C.H. Grandgent. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxi, 625pp, (8pp ads). Maps, line drawings, genealogical charts, grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. A tight, handsome later printing of #208, first published in 1932 but this..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Edited with introduction by Mark Van Doren. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xxiv, 712pp. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket wear only. Wonderfully tight and handsome later printing of #268, first published in this form in..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1979]. Hardcover. 8vo. Navy blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 73pp, (1p ad). Fine/near fine. Quite tight and attractive first edition of this slim verse collection. More
McLean, VA: Henry Hall Sloan, [1994]. Paperback. Illustrations by Elizabeth Byrne. 8vo. Stiff beige pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 50pp). Illustrations. Near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this slim verse about a talking fox, limited to 1500 numbered copies (this #1195) and this copy signed by Sloan on title page. More
Arnold, MD: Henry Hall Sloan, [1995]. Paperback. Illustrations by Elizabeth R. Byrne. 8vo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 50pp). Illustrations. Near fine. Tight and attractive first edition of this slim feline verse, limited to 2500 numbered copies (this #781) and this copy signed by Sloan on title page. More