Five attractively bound books about Japanese art and culture: a first edition of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Vols. I and II, by Isabella L. Bird, published by John Murray of London in 1880, handsomely bound in three-quarter green morocco with 'rising sun' emblems on the spines; a first edition of The Bamboo Garden by A. B. Freeman-Mitford, published by MacMillan & Co. of London in 1896, bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated cream cloth; a first edition of Fundamentals of Japanese Architecture by Bruno Taut, published by Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai of Tokyo in 1936, bound in the publisher's 'Fusuma-paper'; and a first edition of Shojia Hamada edited by Soetsu Yanagi, published by the Ashi Shimbum Publishing Company of Tokyo in 1966, featuring 26 color plates and 113 black-and-white images of the master potter and his works. In overall very good to fine condition, with dampstaining to the original box for the Shojia Hamada book.
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