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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. London: Routledge & Kagan Paul, 1979. First edition. X, 217pp.; index; 8 leaves of plates at center. 8vo. Maroon textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Would be fine but for inked margin brackets on three or four dozen pages; most pages with just one or two markings, a handful with more. No marginalia aside from a few exclamation points. In a near fine, unclipped (unpriced) jacket with light crumpling along top edge. Final book by the noted scholar of 16th century occultism.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Attractive first American edition of this study of "Vitrivuian influences in Tudor and Jacobian England," centered on the works of 16th century occultists John Dee and Robert Fludd. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. First edition. Xiv, 218pp.; index. 8vo. Mottled purple and mauve cloth stamped in metallic purple on front board and spine; dust jacket. Bottom corners mildly bruised. Else fine in a very good (+) unclipped (unpriced) jacket with three total closed tears to top edge of front and rear panels.

Tokyo: Yoroshita Music Co., 1980. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Tokyo: Yoroshita Music Co., 1980. First edition. Small 4to. Perfect-bound in illustrated French flap wrappers. 64pp.; illus. Very good, with light rubbing and wear to edges. Lacking the original obi. Attractively designed and heavily illustrated book celebrating the 1980 world tour, "From Tokyo to Tokyo," of iconic Japanese synth-pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With brief biographies featuring members Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Ryuichi Sakamoto (d. 2023), a chronology of the band, photos of and information about the tour, etc. Most text in Japanese only, but with headings and sporadic translations (including biographies) into English.

NY: New Directions, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.; x, 310pp.; teal cloth, in dust jacket. First edition. Translated by various hands and edited with commentary by John D. Yohannan. A hint of shelfwear, a few tiny specks of soiling to fore-edge, else fine in a fine jacket, lightly toned along top edges of flaps. Selections of the "Joseph-Phaedra Legend" spanning from ancient Egypt to modern Europe, by way of pagan, Judaic, Christian, Moslem and Buddhist civilizations.

Tokyo: Fukutake Pub. Co., Ltd., 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Four volumes. All oblong octavo octavo (12" x 8.5") in glossy illustrated paper boards, with matching dust jackets; all are first editions save No. 2, which we believe is a sixth printing. Unpaginated (each volume ~30pp.). Text in Japanese. All four volumes include laid-in folded sheets with English-language translations by Susan Matsui; N.B. No. 2 incorrectly includes the translation sheet for a different title in the series. All are identically signed, dated, and inscribed by Yoshida opposite the title page to a former owner, believed to be American jewelry artist Linda MacNeil (although we have been unable to confirm that provenance). Yoshida (1911-1995) was a Japanese artist best known for his woodblock prints in the shin-hanga style he learned from his father, printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida, under whose shadow Yoshida labored for much of his career. Following his father's death in 1950, Yoshida finally felt… Read More