A BAR OF SHADOW
Written by Laurens Van Der Post.
Stock no. 1829261
Published by The Hogarth Press. 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is the story of Hara, a Japanese sergeant in command of a prisoner-of-war camp. A penetrating and enthralling study of the Japanese mentality, the Japanese myth, as personified by this demonic, naive, brutal, weirdly idealistic sergeant. Small format. Blue cloth spine with gilt title. Blue and white design paper boards. 58 pages. Reprint in the first year of publication. Boards lightly browned. Minor foxing present mainly to text block. Contents generally clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is browned to spine and rear panel, foxing to rear panel, corners lightly worn with minor chipping.

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JAPANESE RIDERS IN THE ISLE OF MAN
Written by Ralph Crellin.
Stock no. 1829184
Published by Amulree Publications. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

The story of those who challenged the TT. In the 1950s and 1960s, the TT was the premier event in the Grand Prix road racing calendar, it therefore made sense for the major Japanese manufacturers to target the meeting as a significant milestone on the route to world championship honours. Red pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 80 pages. ISBN: 0952112647. Previous bookseller's price label to front cover. Contents clean.

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A CENTURY OF JAPANESE MOTORCYCLES
Written by Didier Ganneau; Francois-Marie Dumas.
Stock no. 1829000
Published by Mbi Publishing. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The history of the motorbike in Japan. Square format. Green boards, white title to spine. Colour photos. 192 pages. ISBN: 0760311900. A lovely copy in pictorial dustwrapper which is lightly edge-rubbed and is scuffed to rear panel with a couple of minor marks.

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THE NAKAJIMA KI-84 (THE AERO SERIES 2)
No author listed. Illustrated by Uwe Feist.
Stock no. 1828757
Published by Aero Publishers Inc. 1st 1965. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos, b/w scale drawings and colour centre pages by Uwe Feist. Not paginated. Covers lightly browned, old price label to front cover. Contents clean.

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JAPANESE NAVAL AIR FORCE FIGHTER UNITS AND THEIR ACES 1932-1945
Written by Ikuhiko Hata; Yasuho Izawa; Christopher Shores.
Stock no. 1828650
Published by Grub Street. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book is a companion volume to 'Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and their Aces, 1931-1945', published by Grub Street in 2002. As such it also represents a major updating and rewriting of Messrs Hata's and Izawa's earlier book of similar title, published in the USA some 20 years ago (at time of publication in 2011). Red boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. x and 434 pages. ISBN: 9781906502843. Light shelf-wear to base of spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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SAMURAI INVASION: JAPAN'S KOREAN WAR 1592-98
Written by Stephen Turnbull.
Stock no. 1828140
Published by Cassell & Co.. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A lively account of the two sixteenth-century Japanese invasions of Korea, untold before in such detail, and a vital period in the history of samurai culture. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0304359483. Rear panel of dustwrapper slightly scuffed else a lovely copy.

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THE SAMURAI SOURCEBOOK
Written by Stephen R. Turnbull.
Stock no. 1828139
Published by Arms & Armour Press. 1st 1998. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive work of reference on samurai history and culture. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1854093711. Dustwrapper spine slightly faded else a lovely copy.

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THE JAPANESE SWORD THE SOUL OF THE SAMURAI
Written by Gregory Irvine.
Stock no. 1327552
Published by V&A Publications. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Far Eastern Series. An illustrated survey examining the development of the Japanese sword in an historical and social context from the 8th to the 20th century. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 128 pages. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1851773142. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly dusty. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed and creased.

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ANIMALS AND THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER
Written by Mayumi Itoh.
Stock no. 1327429
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. 1st 2018. Very good condition.

The Palgrace Macmillan Animal Ethics series. Pictorial boards. 246 pages. A physical print on demand book, printed by Lightning Source. ISBN: 9783319707563. Covers slightly grubby. Remains of a label to rear cover. Contents fine.

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THE POWER OF DOGU: CERAMIC FIGURES FROM ANCIENT JAPAN
Written by Simon Kaner; et al.
Stock no. 1827713
Published by British Museum Press. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Published to accompany the exhibition at the British Mueseum from 10 September to 22 November 2009. Dogu - abstract clay figures with recognizably human or animal features - have a long and fascinating history in Japan. This book illustrates 67 Dogu. Edited by Kaner. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780714124643. Light fading horizontally to top of rear cover. Contents fine.

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THE JAPANESE SWORD THE SOUL OF THE SAMURAI
Written by Gregory Irvine.
Stock no. 1327054
Published by V&A Publications. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Far Eastern Series. An illustrated survey examining the development of the Japanese sword in an historical and social context from the 8th to the 20th century. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 128 pages. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1851773142. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly creased at edges.

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THE EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS AT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI: REPORT OF THE BRITISH MISSION TO JAPAN
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827253
Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

On August 6th, 1945, an American Super-Fortress flying at 30,000 feet dropped a single atomic bomb over the Japanese mercantile city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped over the industrial city of Nagasaki. The British Mission which spent the month of November, 1945, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki gives this report which tells what as seen and what could be learnt three months after the bombing. Cream paperwraps with blue title to front. Staple binding. 21 pages plus b/w photos. Covers a little grubby, corners a little worn/creased. Contents clean.

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