Peking: 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 149 pages. 26.5 x 21.5 cm. Text mostly in Chinese with a Preface in English, and a biographical sketch in English by Liao Jingwen, entitled "Xu Beihong: His Life in Art." The remaining English text in rear, Biographical Notes on Xu Beihong who is probably..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 254 pages. With 228 illustrations, including 109 in color. Foreword by John M. Rosenfield. Chronology. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Offers a thorough study of the long and rich folk art tradition of the Chinese, presenting not only the evolution, materials, and techniques behind..... More
Lausanne: Editions DesTrois Continents, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 139 pages. Approximately 100 tipped-in color plates of contemporary Arabian art. Produced under the authority of the ArabianResource Management. Excellent color reproductions. A survey of Arabian art covering the last half of this century. Text in French. More
Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1957. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 174 pages. Voluminously illustrated, mostly in black and white with five full-page color, and two-tonedplates. Original German version printed by Urs-Graf Verlag; Bern, Switzerland. A survey and history of the Japanese color woodcut by a prominent, if now infamous..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 209 pages. 154 illustrations,fourteen in color. Bibliography. Index. The author examines buildings and gardens still extant as well as those now gone or which never existed, but more importantly, Conner discusses Western fascination with Oriental architectural ideas. More
London: Oriental Bronzes Ltd., 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 127 pages. 29.5 x 21 cm. High quality color photographs on glossy stock. 62 items described all with provenance at exhibitions held in London and Paris. More
New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 399, 369. 281 pages. 38 x 39 cm. 850 examples: 550 paintings and 325 calligraphies with 875 colored plates. Volume covers in tan, green and blue. Research and Translation by Keith Itoh & Lawrence Wu. Introduction Commentary by James C.Y. Watt. Selected..... More
NY: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 296 pp. With 239 black and white illustrations and eight color plates. Notes on Dating. Bibliography. Index. This account, based on western and Japanese literature, summarizes the latest research on the entire field of Japanese decorative art. Translated by Katherine Watson. More
Rome: Canesi, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 151,149, 189 pages. 34 x 25 cm. Total of 174 color plates, and a plethora of black and white illustrations: photographs and drawings. A comprehensive worldwide review of domesticity and interior design from the earliest times through the 20th century. First volume covers prehistory..... More
New York: Japan Society, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 52 pages. 32 x 26 cm, twenty-four plates, all but two are in full-color -- latter are lithographs on mounted vellum stock. An early appreciation and retrospective of the master artists of the Ukiyoe school --Harunobu, Kiyomitsu, Toyonobu, Masanobu, et al .Gookin..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 printed at the Grabhorn Press. 28 plates, one double-paged. with descriptive text for each plate representing seventeen master artists of this genre. Very clean, bright copy. 2nd copy without..... More
Tokyo: Yoshizawa & Co., 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 4 pages of leaves (List of Plates) & 13 pages of Biographical Notes. Folio, 39 x 27 cm. Text and images french-leaved, 425 prints, five are full page color wood block prints. An early effort to present Japanese color prints to the..... More
London: Hamlyn, 1977. Boards. 95 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Profusely illustrated, mostly with color plates. More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Hardcover. 157 pages in text. Folio, 34 x 25 cm. 112 plates, many are brilliant chromolithographs, numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Originally published 1856 in a folio edition this classic work on the history of ornament covers design areas from the earliest time..... More
Paris: Charles Massin, 1956. New edition. Hardcover. 4to, 18 pages in text and 100 colorplates with descriptive text. Note by Yvonne Brunhammer. Originally published, 1928, this new edition updates and corrects the earlier one. Text in French. More
Kyoto: Uchida Woodblock Printer, ca.1950. Hardcover. Four color woodblock prints, each 11 x 9 inches matted, in pictorial board portfolio -- (1) Taikenbyo Nitenmon Gate in Spring, (2) The Row of Cedar Trees in Summer, (3) Kegan-no-tuki Fall in Autumn, (4) Five-Storied Pagoda in Winter. More
New York: Praeger, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 180 pages. Voluminously illustrated with photographs. Biographicaldata on leading Japanese architects. A comprehensive review of Japanese architecture since 1945. More
New York: E. Weyhe, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 36 x 26 cm. Eight plates in full color and forty-four in half tone, each with descriptive text. Limited edition, one of 400 copies. Harunobu flowered late in life, during the last six years he produced his most beautiful designs..... More
London: British Museum, 1963. First edition. Paperback. 32 pages in text. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. Twenty-five plates in color and black and white. More
Tokyo: Charles E.Tuttle, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 201 pages. Eleven color and 109 black and white plates. With a List of Plates, Bibliography and Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I557."An introduction to the major arts and the most highly developed crafts in Japan. Well-chosen illustrations." More
NY: Gallery Books, 1979. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 390 pages. 377 color plates. Glossary. Index of Names and Works. Bibliography. More
New York: Japan Society of New York, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 72 pp. Ten full-page plates, a few in color. Bibliography. Printed in red and black in a Limited Edition, oneof 1000 copies by Peter Beilenson. Collotype reproductions by Arthur Jaffe. With detailed commentary on each plate by the author..... More
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1977. Kuniyoshi, Utagawa. First edition. Paperback. 32 pp. Twelve full-color reproductions. Woodblock prints from a prolific and inventive ukiyo-e artist. His satire remains alive and humane today. More
London: HMSO, 1967. First edition. Paperback. 120 pages. 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm. Fifty-two black and white plates. 184 entries. Index of Artists. More
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962. Hardcover. 4to,, 140 pages intext, 122 black and white plates. Bibliography. Index. First published in 1941, this is a complete and unabridged reprint of the original edition. A seriesof excellent drawings show details of planning and construction photographs are unable to convey. More