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THE TENTEIKIKUN [The Creator's Miracle]

THE TENTEIKIKUN [The Creator's Miracle] by [BIBLE]; Ishikawa, Koreyasu; Sensai, Eitaku

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Title
THE TENTEIKIKUN [The Creator's Miracle]
Author
[BIBLE]; Ishikawa, Koreyasu; Sensai, Eitaku
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Tokyo: [Tokiwaya], 1886. Very good.. Scarce and exceptional first edition thus, a light-hearted illustrated adaptation of the Creation and story of Adam and Eve from the Book of Genesis into Japanese. The story of Bible editions in Japan reflects the country's fraught history with Christianity; after the religion was banned in the early 17th century, the portions printed by Catholic missionaries were lost. The ban on Christianity lifted only in the Meiji era, first partially in 1873, then enshrined in the Constitution 1889 by means of an article on the freedom of religion. The post-Meiji Restoration translation effort of the Hebrew Bible began in 1882 and was finally completed in 1887. Books were completed and issued in parts, with Genesis first issued in 1883. This heavily illustrated and lighthearted version of the two most famous stories from Genesis adapts the text to a well-established literary genre of Meiji Japan: Kusazōshi, a forerunner of manga, popular illustrated works in which the text weaves around the illustrations that dominate most spreads. Because they were meant for a popular audience, the text is often primarily in hiragana, or kanji with furigana; here, the text is shown in three writing styles: kanji, hiragana, and romaji (with furigana glosses). This presentation suggests how Christian mythology must have appeared to Japanese readers, much as (say) Greek mythology seems to modern American readers of Homer. God is depicted as a mustachioed wise man, while the serpent approaches Eve on legs. Most charmingly, one spread depicts God spying on Adam and Eve with a pair of binoculars. While listed as the "first part," it is all published, with no second volume ever appearing. We find only two copies, at the National Diet Library and at Waseda University. 7.75'' x 5.25''. Original printed wrappers. Woodblock printed and illustrated, including 16 double-page spreads. Title page, matching illustrated cover, printed on red metallic-speckled paper. 39, [1] pages. Some staining and wear to wrappers, with 2.5'' paper repair to rear wrapper verso. Black ink calligraphy to versos of both wrappers. Housed in custom blue cloth chemise.
Television, 6 vols. (1936 - 1950)

Television, 6 vols. (1936 - 1950) by RCA Corporation

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Title
Television, 6 vols. (1936 - 1950)
Author
RCA Corporation
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
New York: RCA Institutes Technical Press, 8211. RCA (Radio Corporation of America). Television: Collected addresses and papers on the future of the new art and its recent technical developments. 6 volumes. New York: RCA Institutes Technical Press, 1936-1950. Vols. 1 and 2 in original blue printed wrappers; Vols 3-6 in original cloth. 230 x 150 mm. (Vols. 1-2); 220 x 145 mm. (Vols. 3-6). Spines and edges faded, head of spine in Vol. 1 beginning to separate from the text block, first leaf of Vol. 1 starting, light toning. Very good. First Edition. RCA was a leading pioneer of commercial television. The company began developing TV technology in 1929 at the urging of Vladimir Zworykin, one the founders of modern television, who had patented a prototype television system a few years earlier. Despite the system's technical limitations, Zworykin was able to convince RCA's president, David Sarnoff, that a commercial version could be produced in a short time for $100,000-an overly optimistic claim, as RCA ended up investing nearly ten years and several million dollars in the project. RCA began regular television broadcasting from its NBC studios in New York on 30 April 1939. The first volume in the present series was issued in July 1936, almost three years before RCA's historic first TV broadcast; the sixth (and apparently final) volume came out in 1950. The first three volumes include eight papers written or co-authored by Zworykin. A bibliography of technical papers on television by RCA authors is appended to Vol. 6. .
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A BOOK - PHYSICALLY: & Catalogue 1965-66

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A BOOK - PHYSICALLY: & Catalogue 1965-66 by Higgins, Dick; [The Something Else Press]

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WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A BOOK - PHYSICALLY: & Catalogue 1965-66
Author
Higgins, Dick; [The Something Else Press]
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine.
Description
(New York): (The Something Else Press), 1965. First edition. Near fine.. Rare first catalogue from Higgins's Something Else Press, with a signed note from the publisher of Fluxus artists and concrete poetry: "the sort of avant-garde work which offers a real alternative to the conventional art forms." This first catalogue advertises work by Robert Filliou, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Benjamin Patterson, Tomas Schmit, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, and Daniel Spoerri, preceded by the titular essay on book design, production, and quality. 7'' x 5.5''. Original saddle-stapled printed wrappers. 7, [7] pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Peter Moore. Typed letter from Higgins to Charles Caramello at the Center for 20th Century Studies laid in, dated 1977: "Dear Chuck: I came across a copy of the old SEP catalog to which you had found a reference, and thought you might like to add it to the Caramello Collection." Letter signed by Higgins in pen. Wrappers sunned. Minor edgewear.
Steinbeck A Life in Letters
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Steinbeck A Life in Letters by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten

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Title
Steinbeck A Life in Letters
Author
Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten
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Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780670669622
Condition
Fine
Description
The Viking Press, 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Autographed Note. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket First Edition ALS from Elaine Steinbeck About The Book to Friend Who Let her Know About The Death of John's Friend Nelson Valjean.Amazing Copy..
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Painted Walls of Mexico.; Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo by (Alvarez Bravo, Manuel); Edwards, Emily

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Painted Walls of Mexico.; Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo
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(Alvarez Bravo, Manuel); Edwards, Emily
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966. First edition. Alvarez Bravo, Manuel. Cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket (a few small nicks).
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Traité des vertus démocratiques; Présentée et annotée par Emmanuél Souchier by Queneau, Raymond

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Traité des vertus démocratiques; Présentée et annotée par Emmanuél Souchier
Author
Queneau, Raymond
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Paris: Gallimard, 1993. First edition. Wrappers, fine. 239 p. Copy number 21 of 31 copies on vergé, the only limited edition. Very fine. Uncut pages. 21 cm.
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The Lucidities: Sixteen in Visionary Company. Poems. Drawings by John Furnival by WILLIAMS, Jonathan

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The Lucidities: Sixteen in Visionary Company. Poems. Drawings by John Furnival
Author
WILLIAMS, Jonathan
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine copy
Description
(London): Turret Books, 1967. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by JW, out of a total edition of 280 copies printed by the Trigram Press. Jaffe A48. Fine copy. FURNIVAL, John. Small 4to, 4 tipped-in illustrations, gold foil endpapers, original white boards, white dust jacket. Fine copy.
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Rand-McNally Dollar Atlas of the World: Historical-Political-Commercial by Rand McNally

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Rand-McNally Dollar Atlas of the World: Historical-Political-Commercial
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Rand McNally
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. Containing colored maps of all the states and territories in the United States, the provinces of the dominion of Canada, and of every country and civil division upon the face of the globe. Bound in red cloth with spine and cover stamped in illustrated gilt. Text block is in near-fine condition, clean pages, solid binding, bright colors. Boards have slight bumping to corners, light rubbing and coloration to cloth. A great copy. 6 x 7 inches. Multiple paginations, 153 pages.
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Handbook of South American Indians: Vol. 5 The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians by -

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Handbook of South American Indians: Vol. 5 The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians
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-
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949. Hardcover. Bullletin #143 of the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology. 1949 1st edition. A VG copy in its original green cloth. Thick octavo, 818 pgs.
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The Lion in the Box by de Angeli, Marguerite

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The Lion in the Box
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de Angeli, Marguerite
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
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Doubleday & Company, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on dedication page, dated 1975. First edition stated. Green cloth spine over tan boards, pictorial dust jacket. Short closed tear & associated creases to top of front panel of DJ.
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Eleutheria by BECKETT, Samuel

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Eleutheria
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BECKETT, Samuel
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Original wraps.
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Tetes-Mortes by BECKETT, Samuel

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Tetes-Mortes
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BECKETT, Samuel
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Fine
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Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Original wraps.
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HIGH COURAGE by Anderson, C. W.

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HIGH COURAGE
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Anderson, C. W.
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
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HIGH COURAGE, MacMillan, 1941, first edition vg+ in attractive dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Illustrated by the author. A young adult novel about Bobcat, the race horse.
Frederic W Goudy: American Typographer

Frederic W Goudy: American Typographer by Paul Johnston

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Frederic W Goudy: American Typographer
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Paul Johnston
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Eclectibles (United States)
Description
The Heuron, No.7, 1930. 8 pp. Paper pamphlet, no cover. Article about Goudy and American Typography, discusses Goudy's contribution to typesetting and includes a page of examples. Signed by author. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2" Inscribed and signed by author.
Paola Pivi

Paola Pivi by PIVI, Paola; Massamiliano GIONI; Jens HOFFMAN

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Paola Pivi
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PIVI, Paola; Massamiliano GIONI; Jens HOFFMAN
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9788862083195
Condition
A fine copy
Description
Damiani, 2013. A fine copy. 4to. 190 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Over the course of her two-decade career, the Italian-born, Alaska-based multimedia artist Paola Pivi (born 1971) has fashioned such unlikely objects as a mausoleum made of cookies and a rotating airplane. Many of her sculptures and photographs are comical, as in her pictures of miniaturized designer chairs attached to bare buttocks, or a leopard walking across rows of cappuccino cups. Animals are a recurrent presence throughout, whether taxidermied and rendered sculptural or alive and photographed in unlikely locales (e.g. her tender portrait of two zebras, their heads hooked around each other's necks, against a backdrop of mountain snow). This volume is published for Pivi's 2013 exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, and gathers a selection of her work from the past ten years" (the publisher).
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Classical Essays Presented to James A. Kleist, S.J.

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Classical Essays Presented to James A. Kleist, S.J.
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St. Louis: St. Louis University, The Classical Bulletin, 1946. Edited with introduction by Richard E. Arnold. xx, 122p., front. port, original blue cloth, ex libris. Contains eight essays by various scholars.

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