Authors starting with Z from Thorn Books

Tokyo: Obunsha, 1947. First edition.. Softcover. Fine. 8vo. 29,(3)pp of text in English form front to back; 64pp. of text in Japanese and illustrations form back to front. Bound in the Japanese style; paper over thin card and string binding. Illustrated by Shiko Munakata. Foreword by Ryuzaburo Shikiba. Light crease on upper board else a fine copy. Warmly inscribed by Meredith Weatherby on the inside front cover, dated Yokohama, 1948. ... more information

San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thin 8vo. 32p. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles on the upper board. Four illustrations (2 full page) by Lela Dowling. One of 35 hardbound numbered copies signed by the author on an affixed limitation slip. A fine copy. The title page bears an association inscription from the publisher, signing himself as "Yoganathan" then, in parentheses, "Tim Underwood". Laid in is a letter form the publisher date... more information

Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she, 1990. Hardcover. Fine. Tall thin 4to. 172pp. Original nubby brown cloth blocked in white and with a paste-on to the upper board. Full page map; illustated with over 20pp of schematics followed by 413 figures of photographs and rubbings. Text in Chinese, with an abstract in English. Bibliography. A fine, as new copy in publisher's cardboard slipcase, also fine.... more information

London: Septimus Prowett, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. Contemporary full calf. Spine in 5 compartments, one with maroon lettering piece, gilt; the others ornately gilt. Boards outlined in simple gilt rules, then blindstamped in concentric rectangles; the central portion tooled in blind to represent straight-grain leather. Gilt inner dentelles, marbled paper endpapers. Full page engraved plates, with light ofsetting to facing text. A fine copy in a well executed 19th century binding.... more information