Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2002. 'a tour of 120 gardens across Japan, covering a broader geographical spread than any other book available in English, [explaining] the gardens' physical aspects, and the historical, symbolic, religious and meditative meanings, purposes and allusions embodied in them' (dustwrapper). More
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1992. More
London, Edward Stanford, 1903 ('10.IX.03'). An attractive and detailed map of Japan, issued on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War. More
Rutland, Tuttle, 1970. More
Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1985. Loosely inserted is an autographed letter (dated 10 July 1996) to aviation historian David Vincent from Allan G. LeBaron (see page 247); not least of which relates to Chief Bannowsky, 'the Naval Aviation Pilot mentioned on page 34. Did you know that on one flight..... More
Novato, Presidio Press, 1998. More
Tokyo, Shogakukan, 1984. Text in Japanese with an index of plates in English. More
Paris, Société de rapprochement intellectuel franco-japonais/ Institut franco-japonais du Kansai, Paris a Kyoto, 1928. Loosely inserted is a loose sheet of paper (a little creased and torn) which is inscribed and signed by the author in English and Japanese. More
London, Methuen, 1906. When Emperor Meiji died in 1912, Japan had gone from being an isolated, pre-industrial, feudal country dominated by the Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyos, to a great power which had undergone political, social, and industrial revolution. The author travelled throughout Japan and met the influential men who..... More
Toronto, Dundurn Group, 2001. Part of the story of the 'Magic' network. Loosely inserted is an obituary notice for a former signaler with the unit. More
Sydney, Wordspec, 1993/ 1993. Not least, PNG in WW2. By the author of Down the Breakie, North from Scarlet. More
Canberra, Roebuck Society, 1981. Number 29 in the Roebuck Series. More
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum/ Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981. More
Japan, Kodansha International Ltd., 1970. More
Berkeley, Stone Bridge Press, 1997. More
Portland, Timber Press, 1997/ 1991. More
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964. More
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1934. With the ownership signature (and place and dated 1934-5) of Sir Walter Crocker, his annotations on the rear flyleaf and his occasional marginal pencilling. Crocker spent two years at Stanford from June 1928 as a Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund. He studied demography, specialising (in..... More
[Japan], Bunrin-do, 1980. Text in Japanese but extensively illustrated. Loosely inserted is a photograph of the nose of Liberator 'Nipponese Clipper'. Aircraft include B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Marauder, B-29 Super Fortress; not least, over 30 pages of 'Nose Art of U.S. Bombers'. Koku-Fan Illustrated Number 5..... More
Dehiwala, Tisara Prakasakayo, 1993 (revised third edition)/ 1976. More
Kyoto, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, 2011 (first English language edition). Nichibunken Monograph Series Number 12. More
Surrey Hills, The Author, 1986. Signed (and dated: 1986) by the author; one of 2000 copies. Publication details slip loosely inserted.'Being the true story of an enlisted man in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1942 to 1946. The every day life of its airmen, the air war in Darwin..... More
Surrey Hills, The Author, 1986. Not least, 18 Squadron RAAF. One of 2000 copies, 'the true story of an enlisted man in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1942 to 1946. The everyday life of its airmen, the air war in Darwin and a pre war and post war autobiography'..... More
London, Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1956. More