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WILLMOTT Hedley Paul
The Second World War in the East. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cassell's 'History of Warfare' series under the general editorship of John Keegan.
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SMITH Michael
The Emperor's Codes. Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 36 plates on 16; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MATTHEWS Tony
Shadows Dancing. Japanese Espionage against the West 1939-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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HAMILTON Ian
A Staff Officer's Scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese War. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a sepia-toned frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 16 plates, 15 maps (several coloured and folding) and a folding map at end, some minimal age-soiling; handsomely bound in handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, original gilt from upper board and backstrip mounted at front on new and separate leaves, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. A lovely copy of this senior eye-witness account. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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BLAKER R.
The Needle-Watcher. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and endpaper maps in red, free endpapers moderately spotted, small contemporary inscription on half-title, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound); original burgundy cloth, upper board framed in black, backstrip lettered in gilt ad blocked in black, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright copy. The story of Will Adams, shipwrecked in seventeenth century Japan and befriended by shogun Ieyasu. This book forms the basis of Clavell's novel Shogun. THE UK EDITION IS VERY SCARCE - FAR MORE SO THAN ITS US COUNTERPART PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY.
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GRAY E.
Operation Pacific. The Royal Navy's War against Japan 1941-1945.
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 12, and 3 full-page maps and a double-page map in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first full and detailed account, and now quite scarce.
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OOKA Shohei
Fires on the Plain. Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First English Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by John Robinson. First appearance in English of Ooka's most famous novel Nobi (1951), widely regarded as one of the most important novels of the post-war period and now a modern classic. Based on the author's own experiences in the Phillippines, it tells the harrowing story of a lone Japanese soldier seeking to escape the island of Leyte after the conflict. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BEHR Edward
Hirohito. Behind the Myth. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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PENKALA Maria
Magic Blanc de Chine. A Handbook for the Collector. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine plates, illustrations, makers' marks and tables in the text, and endpaper maps; sky blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE
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NAJITA T.
Conflict in Modern Japanese History. The Neglected Tradition. Edited by Tetsuo Najita and J. Victor Koschmann. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo. First Edition handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered ands ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt laid endpapers uncut a most att
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SEKIGAWA Eiichiro
Pictorial History of Japanese Military Aviation. Translated by Miss C Uchida. English Version edited by David Mondey. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. with numerous photographs throughout; red cloth gilt back a very good bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BATES Peter
Japan and the British Commonwealth Occupation Force 1946-52. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCRACE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BOWRING Richard
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a copy of the publisher's single-leaf prospectus loosely inserted. Lovely copy of a standard reference.
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KIRBY S. Woodburn
The Reconquest of Burma. The War against Japan Vol. IV. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Sold from an institution wits neat stamp on title. A volume in the Official History of Australia in WWII.
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DEXTER David
The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the War of 1939-1045. Vol. VI. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Sold from an institution wits neat stamp on title. A volume in the Official History of Australia in WWII.
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WILLOUGHBY Charles A.
MacArthur: 1941-1951. Victory in the Pacific. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and endpaper maps; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter neatly repaired at headband. The UK edition is far scarcer than its American counterpart. Enser, p.252.
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COURSE A.G.
Pirates of the Eastern Seas. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; salmon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. NMM IV, 104.
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HONEY William Bower
The Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, 3 fine mounted coloured plates and 192pp of plates in monochrome, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, fresh copy. Bright, clean copy of a standard reference. Includes China, Indo-china, Korea and Japan.
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FUKUI Shizuo
Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II. With a Foreword by John B. Lundstrom. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and tables in the text; green boards, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WILLMOTT H.P.
Grave of a Dozen Schemes. British Naval Planning and the War against Japan, 1943-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, red cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MORRIS John
The Phoenix Cup. Some Notes on Japan in 1946. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss (affecting lettering) at tail of backstrip.
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IDEMITSU Sazo
The Eternal Japan. Conversations with Sazo Idemitsu. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; green cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
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BOYD Carl
The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II. [First UK Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and maps; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.
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YOKOHAMA COUNTRY & ATHLETIC CLUB.
Magazine. December 1991. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous trade advertisements throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Includes YCAC Rugby Reunion in London and Twickenham, with separate slip naming personnel in cover photograph.
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RAWLINGS LEO
'And the Dawn came up like Thunder'. [With supporting Account by Bill Duncan. Foreword by Lord Mountbatten of Burma]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with front endpaper map and 119 illustrations by the author in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With two relevant cuttings loosely inserted. The author's experiences as a POW at the hands of the Japanese, and a series of illustrations and sketches made in captivity. A moving and sobering account. Enser, p.423.
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HIROSHIMA.
Illustrated History of Postwar Hiroshima. Fifty Years of Life after the Atomic Bomb. [Book and CD Portfolio]. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, text in Japanese, Main Volume with many hundreds of coloured and monochrome photographs (a number folding) in the text, CD Portfolio with coloured illustrated booklet and CD in oyster case; Main Volume in brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, CD Portfolio in white boards, both volumes housed in publisher's card slip-case, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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WILLMOTT H.P.
Grave of a Dozen Schemes. British Naval Planning and the War against Japan, 1943-1945. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, red cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Signed copies are very scarce.
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WALEY Arthur
The No Plays of Japan. With Letters by Oswald Sickert. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plate; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears on rear panel. Waley's classic text was first published in 1921. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MAYER, ed. S.L.
The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. Folio, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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STEWART Adrian
The Underrated Enemy. Britain's War with Japan, December 1941 - May 1942. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.137; Graham & Cole C29.
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SHIROYAMA Saburo
War Criminal. The Life and Death of Hirota Koki. Translated by John Bester. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TRAGER, ed. Frank N.
Burma. Japanese Military Administration, Selected Documents, 1941-1945. Edited with an Introduction by Frank N. Trager. Translated by Won Zoon Yoon. Assisted by Thomas T. Winant. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Graham & Cole, I56.
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MERCADO Stephen C.
The Shadow Warriors of Nakano. A History of the Imperial Japanese Army's Elite Intelligence School. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First detailed account of Imperial Japan's military intelligence service during WWII.
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TSOURAS, ed. Peter G.
Rising Sun Victorious. The Alternate History of how the Japanese won the Pacific War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TOKAYER Marvin
The Fugu Plan. The untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, red endpapers, a near fine copy in in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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VADER John
Battle of Sydney. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Novel set against a once-imminent Japanese invasion of Australia. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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WILLMOTT H.P.
Empires in the Balance. Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942. [First UK Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; tan cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Enser, p.213.
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MARSHALL Chester W.
Final Assault on the Rising Sun. Combat Diaries of B-29 Air Crews over Japan.[First UK Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy.8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TRENOWDEN Ian
Operations Most Secret. SOE: The Malayan Theatre. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON SLIP MOUNTED ON TITLE. By comparison with its operations in Europe, SOE's activities in the Far East have received far less attention. The author worked with the wartime commander of Force 136 Group B to create an extensive survey of operations before and after Hudson's arrival. Includes a valuable historical note on SOE operations in Malaya and a select bibliography. Enser, p.150.
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SUNOO Harold Hakwon
Japanese Militarism Past and Present. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FRIEDMAN George
The Coming War with Japan. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps in the text, and endpaper maps; white fleck boards, black cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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IENAGA Saburo
Japan's Last War. World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; salmon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DAVIES H. Noel
The Red Dragon and the Rising Sun. Captivity. Illustrated by Elwyn Thomas. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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KURZMAN Dan
Day of the Bomb. Countdown to Hiroshima. [First US Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the UK edition.
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KURZMAN Dan
Day of the Bomb. [Hiroshima 1945. First UK Edition] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.
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FISHER Charles A.
Three Times a Guest. Recollections of Japan and the Japanese, 1942-1969. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, contemporary signature on title; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FLETCHER-COOKE John
The Emperor's Guest, 1942-45. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with folding plate, full-page maps in the text and facsimile endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. THE FIRST EDITION IS SCARCE IN DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.236.
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SHIROYAMA Saburo
War Criminal. The Life and Death of Hirota Koki. Translated by John Bester. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; sand cloth, backstrip lettered in red and black, cream endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustswrapper.
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HARRIES Meirion
Sheathing the Sword. The Demilitarisation of Japan. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LAMONT-BROWN Raymond
Kamikaze. Japan's Suicide Samurai. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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