📚 Bonsai

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The tree kept small: styling and species, and the patience the art asks for in years.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bonsai in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Bonsai	Peter Chan	1985	9
The art of growing miniature trees, plants and landscapes	Tatsuo Ishimoto	1956	7
Kamuti	Willi E. Bollmann	1974	6
A dwarfed tree manual for westerners	Samuel Newsom	1960	5
Bonsai	Jack McDowell	1965	5
Bonsai	Deborah R. Koreshoff	1984	5
Bonsai	Paul Lesniewicz	1984	5
Indoor Bonsai	Paul Lesniewicz	1985	5
The art of indoor bonsai	John Ainsworth	1988	5
The bonsai book	Dan Barton	1989	5
Bonsai	Colin Lewis	1996	5
The master's book of bonsai	Nobukichi Koide	1967	4
Bonsai Design	Peter D. Adams	1988	4
The complete book of bonsai	Harry Tomlinson	1990	4
Understanding Bonsai	Pieter Loubser	1993	4
Bonsai	Harry Tomlinson	1994	4
Bonsai	Werner M. Busch	1996	4
Essential Bonsai	Ken Norman	1998	4
The bonsai handbook	David Prescott	2001	4
Bonsai, Japanese miniature trees	Kan Yashiroda	1960	3
Practical bonsai for beginners	Kenji Murata	1964	3
Bonsai techniques	John Yoshio Naka	1973	3
Bonsai with American trees	Masakuni Kawasumi	1975	3
The beginner's guide to American bonsai	Jerald P. Stowell	1978	3
Bonsai	Christine Stewart	1981	3
The art of bonsai	Peter D. Adams	1981	3
The Collingridge handbook of bonsai	Anne Swinton	1982	3
Bonsai	Anne Swinton	1985	3
Create Your Own Bonsai with Everyday Garden Plants	Peter Chan	1989	3
Indoor bonsai	John Ainsworth	1990	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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