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
Japan
A three-colour woodcut bookplate (with additional hand-colouring) for J. Vils-Pedersen
+ HOSOKAWA, Peter F.: A five-colour woodcut bookplate for Arvid Vilms, signed by the artist. External dimensions 108 × 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
A colour woodcut bookplate for Barbara Constance Barnett
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
Images from the Floating World. The Japanese Print. Includes an Illustrated Dictionary of Ukiyo-e
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
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe. A Dialogue concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)
London, Hakluyt Society, 2012. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 25. Translated by J.F. Moran; annotations and introduction by Massarella. More
The Jap Was Thrashed. An Official Story of the Australian Soldier. First Victor of the 'Invincible' Jap, New Guinea, 1942-43
[Melbourne], The Director General of Public Relations, [1944]. Including Milne Bay, Owen Stanleys, Buna-Gona and Sanananda. More
The End of the Japanese Imperial Navy. [A Japanese Account of the rise and fall of Japan's seapower, with emphasis on World War II (dustwrapper subtitle)]
London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1962 (first edition in English). Translated by Andrew Y. Kuroda and Roger Pineau. More
Why Singapore Fell
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1944. More
Pacific Profiles. Volume Eight: IJN Floatplanes in the South Pacific, 1942-1944
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2022. More
I-400. Japan's Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine. Objective: Panama Canal
Manchester, Crecy Publishing Ltd, 2010/ 2006. More
Broken Wings of the Samurai. The Destruction of the Japanese Airforce
Shrewsbury, Airlife, 1993. More
Rising Sun, Falling Skies. The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2010. More
The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Imperial Naval Air Service
Barnsley, Pen & Sword Aviation, 2010. More
Tales of the Tokugawa. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'iwa Inari
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
Katakana Man. I Worked Only for Generals. The Most Secret of all Allied Operations in World War II in the Pacific
Tuggeranong, Air Power Development Centre, 2006. Signed in ink on the title page by the author. Winner of the 2005 RAAF Heritage Awards. More
2011 Nuido World Exhibition. Nuido - The Way of Embroidery. [Cover title]
Atlanta, Japanese Embroidery Center & Kurenai-kai, 2011. Exhibition catalogue. More
Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan. Leaves from the Diary of Baroness Albert d'Anethan
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
The Japanese Thrust
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1968 (reprint)/ 1957. Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 1 (Army), Volume 4. More
The Golden Journey. Japanese Art from Australian Collections
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2009 (first edition). Exhibition catalogue. More
The Lure of the Japanese Garden
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
Pedlar Palmer of Tobruk. An Autobiography. [Pedlar Palmer, alias "Stooge" or "Pirate" (half-title)]
Canberra, Roebuck Society, 1981. Number 29 in the Roebuck Series. More
Two original photographs of the Surrender Ceremony of the Japanese 2nd Army at Morotai, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies, on 9 September 1945
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
Those Air Force Days
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
South Pacific Air War. Volume 5: Crisis in Papua, September-December 1942
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2022. More