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Hollywood, CA: W.M. Hawley, 1996. First Printing thus. Spiral Bound with stiff card covers as issued. Very Good. Probably the greatest book ever published on the subject. Publisher Hawley was an expert on Japanese culture. He published many things, including huge charts and posters on Japanese and Chinese language, samurai swords and cultural history. He also had an excellent collection of Japanese Samurai Swords. He lived in Los Angeles on top of a hill, with about 100 steps up as anyone who was there in the 1970s or 1980s will remember climbing. This is the First Edition for General Distribution, January 1996, which came out a few months after the small Limited Edition. The Table of Contents includes: The Early Period-An Age of Legends; The Middle Period - The Founding Fathers; The Inter-War Period- Okinawan Pioneers in Japan and Redefining an Art on Okinawa; Modern Karate - A New Generation and a New Sport; History and Developement of Kata The Quintessential Element; The Karatedo Mokuroku… Read More

New York: Windward, 1978. Good. Very Good. This book traces the development of ukiyo-e placing the genre within the historical, social, political,and economic conditions which favoured its evolution."Woodcuts 377 color plates390 pgs.

Tokyo: The Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1988. Slipcover. like new. Colored plates of Ukiyo-e paintings. 160 pgs.

Arlington, VT: M&M Engineering, 1994. n.s.. Trade Paperback. Good. Covers above ground shelters, Military Shelters, Below ground shelters including fallout and blast, Basement and fallout shelters, Burial vaults, prefab shelters. Lots of line drawing illustrations.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. First Edition. Very Good. Complete History of Forests and Timber in the United States, including policy and conservation efforts up until 1920 This copy has book plate of Ray A Billington, historian B-2