A Connoisseur's Guide to Japanese Ceramics
Fribourg, Alpine Fine Arts Collection (U.K.) Ltd., 1987 (first English edition)/ 1984. Translated by Katherine Watson. More
Fribourg, Alpine Fine Arts Collection (U.K.) Ltd., 1987 (first English edition)/ 1984. Translated by Katherine Watson. More
+ HOSOKAWA, Peter F.: A five-colour woodcut bookplate for Arvid Vilms, signed by the artist. External dimensions 108 Ă— 84 mm; with the discreet date-stamp (1980) on the reverse (showing through slightly, and impacting a little on the signature pencilled in the bottom margin); in excellent condition. The Frederikshavn-Kunstmuseum has..... More
Peake 237. Barbara Constance Barnett was the wife of noted authority on bookplates and Japanese woodblock prints, Percy Neville Barnett. This plate is featured on page 172 of his 'Woodcut Book-Plates' (Beacon Press, 1934). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. More
New York, Dorset Press, 1982. 'Since its discovery by the Western World in the mid-nineteenth century, the Japanese wood-block print has awakened the interest of a growing number of collectors and connoisseurs' (from the blurb). More
London, Hakluyt Society, 2012. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 25. Translated by J.F. Moran; annotations and introduction by Massarella. More
[Melbourne], The Director General of Public Relations, [1944]. Including Milne Bay, Owen Stanleys, Buna-Gona and Sanananda. More
London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1962 (first edition in English). Translated by Andrew Y. Kuroda and Roger Pineau. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1944. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2022. More
Manchester, Crecy Publishing Ltd, 2010/ 2006. More
Shrewsbury, Airlife, 1993. More
Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2010. More
Barnsley, Pen & Sword Aviation, 2010. More
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1917. The lengthy and informative preface states that this story is presented 'not so much because of the incidents involved and the peculiar relation to a phase of Nipponese mentality, as from the fact that it contains all of the machinery of the Nipponese ghost story........ More
Tuggeranong, Air Power Development Centre, 2006. Signed in ink on the title page by the author. Winner of the 2005 RAAF Heritage Awards. More
Atlanta, Japanese Embroidery Center & Kurenai-kai, 2011. Exhibition catalogue. More
London, Stanley Paul & Co, [1913] (second edition)/ 1912. Eleanora Mary, Baroness d'Anethan (1858-1935), sister of the author Rider Haggard, and widow of Baron Albert d'Anethan ('Belgian Minister to the Court of Japan'), spent the years 1893 to 1906 in Japan. More
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1968 (reprint)/ 1957. Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 1 (Army), Volume 4. More
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2009 (first edition). Exhibition catalogue. More
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
Canberra, Roebuck Society, 1981. Number 29 in the Roebuck Series. More
General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Force, South West Pacific Area, accepted the surrender of Lieutenant General Fusataro Teshima, Commander of the 2nd Japanese Army at Moratai, at '1 Corps Sports Ground. Lt Gen Teshima was accompanied by Captain Toyima, who signed for the Japanese Navy' (Australian War Memorial)..... 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
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2022. More