Maggs Bros. Ltd.

CHAUCER (Geoffrey), SKEAT (Walter W.) [Editor] & FLINT (W. Russell) [Illustrator]

The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1913.

£2,500

[FATHER CHRISTMAS]

Father Christmas trade card

"Now get your stocking ready"

£175

HASEGAWA (T.)

Japanese Fair Tale Series No. 21 – Three… 1925.

A FINE COPY OF THE LARGER FORMAT EDITION

£600

KOUEI (Ippen). & [MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS]

Nippon seihin zusetsu: zasshu kaiso  [Illustrated Products of… 1899.

Seaweed: vibrantly printed in woodblock

£500

HASEGAWA (T.)

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 18 – The… 1889.

Man Vs. Ogre

£450

SEKI (Bunsen).

Bunsen Gafu. [Bunsen's Album], 1848.

£750

BASKIN (Leonard). & [BERWICK (Thomas)]

An ABC with best wishes for 1958 from… 1957.

Baskin & Berwick

£450

TENNIEL (John)., Illustrations. & DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE (Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr).

Undine, A Romance, 1861.

The 1861 reprint of Tenniel's rare first book.

£275

PETERS (Heather) & SOCIETY OF HERMITS

Hypoxia, 2021.

A breathing book

£1,250

RHINOCEROUS PRESS & CLARKE (E. M.)

The Ballad of Little Musgrave, 1986.

Impressively large woodcut prints

£450

BURNE-JONES (Edward Coley)

Pan and Psyche, 1887.

£3,500

CADOGAN ROTHERY (R.).

Sunny Winter Homes, 1880.

WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR

£1,250

BETJEMAN (John)

Metroland. Verses by Sir John Betjeman. Lithographs by… 1977.

£950

BATTEN, John D[ickson].

Eve and the Serpent, 1896.

£115

HUET (Michel)., VERGER (P.), CLAEYS (J. Y.), DE SACY (S.), M.F.O.M. & LÉVY (Paul), preface.

Viet Nam, 1951.

£250

[HIDDEN MOTHER].

[Tintype portrait of a baby held in the… 1870.

A HAUNTING IMAGE

£150

IWAI (Taketoshi)., KATO (Minoo). & KAWAI (Kanjiro). design

Kyoto minka fu [Record of Kyoto's Minka Houses], 1934.

Recording the craftsmanship of minka architecture

£2,000

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

Hinoe tora goshi ginka kana tsuguru ban katazome… 1986.

BLENDING EAST AND WEST IN TWELVE MONTHS

£1,250

MAINICHI NEWSPAPER COMPANY

Tesuki Washi [Handmade paper], 1975.

£450

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

Toki seou [Bearing the weight of time], 1987.

Time: in fourteen influential thinkers

£450

WAKAYAMA (Yasoji). & NAITO (Masakatsu), binder.

Kappa aijo-ki [Kappa love story], 1948.

Wakayama's first self-published book, one of 10 special copies

£2,600

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Shonen shojo [Boys and Girls], 1952.

Reflecting on childhood and the passing of time

£850

[KOCHI PREFECTURE HANDMADE WASHI ASSOCIATION].

Tosa Washi, 1990.

Introducing paper-making in Tosa

£750

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Ima wa mukashi [Once upon a time], 1967.

Bound with a reverse glass painting

£800

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Hirado genso [Hirado fantasy], 1977.

The Dutch trading port of Hirado, Nagasaki

£450

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Kawakami Sumio Sakuhin-shu [Collection of works by Kawakami… 1975.

A beautifully produced posthumous tribute

£1,500

MIYASHITA (Kozo). & SERIZAWA (Keisuke). illus.

Ai ori to ishizara [Indigo dye and Stoneware… 1984.

Bound with a ceramic plate

£750

ALL JAPAN HANDMADE WASHI ASSOCIATION

Heisei no shifu • Current Handmade Papers of… 1992.

Respecting the past and looking forward to the future of washi

£1,250

SEKI (Yoshikuni).

Koshi no kagami [Examples of ancient papers], 1977.

A valuable teaching resource for Japanese Paper

£6,250

YANAGI (Muneyoshi). & [YANAGI (Soetsu)].

Washi no Bi [The Beauty of Japanese Paper], 1943.

With the rare original dust jacket

£2,000

SEKINO (Junichiro).

Kosetsu shiki [The Story of the Blind Man… 1975.

The hand-coloured edition

£550

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Yuenchi haikyo [Amusement Park Ruins], 1956.

One of 5 special copies

£4,000

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Tabako Toraiki [On the Arrival of Tobacco], 1943.

A quiet rebellion in the form of a private press book

£3,500

TAKENAKA (Takuro).

Hakurai kaju yoran [Handbook of Foreign Fruits], 1884.

MAKING WINE IN JAPAN

£480

OKAMURA [Kichiemon].

Okinawa no minyo [Folk Songs in Okinawa], 1961.

A nostalgic book of Okinawan folk songs

£950

GOTO (Seikichiro).

Nihon no kami: higashi nihon • nishi nihon [Japanese… 1958.

Japanese paper-making arranged by prefecture

£2,250

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Ranpu to onna [Lamps and Women], 1965.

Natural and man-made beauty, admired together

£2,500

ABE (Eishiro)

Izumo Mingei Shifu [Izumo folk craft papers], 1956.

Made by the hands of a Living National Treasure

£1,500

TAKAHASHI (Masataka).

Momikarakami [Kneaded papers], 1971.

A privately printed book on highly specialised washi

£350

SEKINO (Junichiro).

Kojiki emaki [Picture Scroll of the Kojiki], 1949.

A calming book for the busy age

£6,500

SERIZAWA (Keisuke).

Tohoku kama meguri [Touring the Tohoku Kilns], 1944.

Northern kilns seen through Serizawa's artistic eye

£4,750

SERIZAWA (Keisuke)

Shinpan ehon don kihote zen sanju-ichi zu •… 1978.

Serizawa's pocket-sized Don Quixote

£450