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Kokon shikishi no fu 古今色紙之譜 [A Collection of East Asian Decorative Paper Samples from Ancient to Modern Times] by SEKI, Yoshikuni 関義城

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Title: Kokon shikishi no fu 古今色紙之譜 [A Collection of East Asian Decorative Paper Samples from Ancient to Modern Times]
Author: SEKI, Yoshikuni 関義城
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Hundreds of paper samples tipped-in, five plates of facsimiles, & 4 plates (which serve as paste-down endpapers). 106; 130 pp. on folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. orange semi-stiff wrappers, woodcut title-slips on upper wrappers, orig. stitching. [Tokyo: Privately Printed], colophon dated 1963. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, signed, luxuriously printed throughout on handmade paper, of this magnificent and rare decorative paper specimen book. Seki (1892-1979), an executive at a Japanese paper company, was a leading historian of Asian papermaking. These two volumes contain decorative paper samples — including examples of printing and manuscripts from the earliest times (e.g., hemp paper from the eighth century) as well as modern paper specimens — from China, Japan, and Korea. Each sample is carefully described in the accompanying printed text. The author also discusses at length the history of papermaking in East Asia with descriptions of papermaking techniques (illustrated on the endpaper plates). With an excellent index. Errata leaf and prospectus laid-in. Fine set in the original chitsu. Minor worming towards end of Vol. II. With the seal of Obama Toshie 小汀利得 (1889–1972), journalist, politician, and well-known book collector.

Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni / For a Language to Come by NAKAHIRA, Takuma

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Title: Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni / For a Language to Come
Author: NAKAHIRA, Takuma
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Former owner's contemporary stamp, with an annotation and some underlining to the Kanji on the last three pages of text; still a
Description: Tokyo: Fudosha, 1970. Former owner's contemporary stamp, with an annotation and some underlining to the Kanji on the last three pages of text; still a fresh, near fine copy in wrappers in an almost near fine jacket, rubbed a bit along the edges, and housed in a very good example of the distinctive bullet slipcase, a bit darkened at the edges, with a faint red ink stamp over the printed label. Despite the defects, a pleasing copy of this Provoke title, always rare in the west, and not easily obtainable in Japan.. First Edition. Quarto. Nakahira was one of the founders of the Provoke movement of Japanese photography and literature. His blurred, distorted, dark, and depressing pictures capture the reality of a postindustrial Japan hurtling out of control. The use of bleeds and double page spreads adds a cinematic freneticism to the work. (Parr / Badger, v1, 292-293; Auer 524).

Giustina: A Spanish Tale of Real Life by [Law, Elizabeth Susan] E.S.L.

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Title: Giustina: A Spanish Tale of Real Life
Author: [Law, Elizabeth Susan] E.S.L.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: [London]: Not Published [Printed by I Botson and Palmer], 1833. First edition. Recent marbled wraps tied at spine. All edges gilt. Bookplate of J.O. Edwards to verso of front wrap. Ownership stamp of Lady Ulrica Thynne (d. 1916) to front endpaper. A Near Fine copy, with a bit of light scattered foxing throughout. Measuring 180 x 110mm and collating complete including half and full titles: [6], 63, [1, blank]. A scarce work in translation which was only distributed among friends and family, OCLC reports copies of Giustina at only 6 libraries. The present is the only example on the market. A narrative poem in three cantos, Giustina is a romance set in Spain but clearly commenting on the hypocrisy of patriarchy and the English marriage economy. Driven by "that deep confiding trust which flows from the chaste Fondness only woman knows," Giustina chooses Alonzo as her mate. She is, after all, pure of heart and shaped by the advice that a woman should not be mercenary. The great tragedy for Giustina and Alonzo, however, is that economic concerns do enter into marriage. Despite returning Giustina's love, "He could not brook that she whose heart he won Should stoop to poverty--by love undone!" Alonzo, aware of Giustina's economic precarity if they wed -- cut off from by her father, dependent on his scant earnings -- is the realist. A long separation, unhappiness and ill health (linked to the realization that his line will end with Giustina's death) lead her father to agree to the couple's marriage and to allowing his daughter's dowry and inheritance. But alas -- upon the reunion Alonzo too has suffered such poor health that he survives only through their wedding day. The financially driven marriage system has created a young widow and ended the line of inheritance for her family, committing her instead to the care of her aging father. Jackson 195.4. Bibliographic Catalogue of Privately Printed Books 445.

The Baptist Church Cook Book. Published by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Baptist Church, San Francisco, Cal by [First Baptist Church (San Francisco (Calif.); Ladies’ Aid Society]

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Title: The Baptist Church Cook Book. Published by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Baptist Church, San Francisco, Cal
Author: [First Baptist Church (San Francisco (Calif.); Ladies’ Aid Society]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Matthews, 1910. Octavo (20.5 x 15.5 cm.), 165 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). “Table of contents” is actually an index. Subtitle on cover: Containing 600 Recipes Tried and Proved. Illustration of the Church on the title page. FIRST EDITION. A compact but generous church cookbook with six hundred attributed recipes, entirely addressed to an anglophone readership expecting fritters and puddings. Potential stand-outs among them: Cream of Onion Soup, Panned Oysters with Green Peppers, Mutton Turnover, Stewed Tripe, Chicken Alabama, Mushroom Patties, Fruit Fritters, Brussel Sprouts in White Sauce, Baked Beets, Graham Raisin Bread, Tomatoes Stuffed with Pineapple, Strawberry Cottage Pudding, Prune Souffle, Fluff Fluff Custard, Potato Cake, Walnut Wafers (four versions), Apple Chutney, Date Sandwiches, Pickled Figs. ~ A curious counterpoint emerges between the Anglo-European standard fare, on the one hand, and the prominence of the advertising for Chinese-American businesses on the other – for instance, the Sing Fat Company (a full-page notice trumpeting its “Famous Oriental Bazaar”), the Sing Chong Company (another general wholesaler), Kong Nam Low (“first class Chinese restaurant, clean and respectable”), and Quan Yick & Co. (green grocers). The explanation, as one might predict, has to do with First Baptist’s location at the city’s heart, just north of the Market Street bisector (on the corner of what is today Octavia Boulevard and Waller Street), within easy reach of the Mission District to the southwest as well as to the Financial District and China Town a few blocks northeast. ~ From the time of its founding in 1849, the congregation of First Baptist had grown into three churches when the last of them was lost in the devastion of 1906. Expenses would have been considerable, not only for the erection of new quarters but also for the purchase of a city lot during the effective redrawing of San Francisco’s map. The Ladies’ Aid instigated The Baptist Church Cook Book “to assist in furnishing the new church,” whose grandeur still impresses. The building was to be responsive to the dawning age, with a broad dome to shield its sanctuary, the architectural style a lightly assimilated art nouveau – tellingly echoed, in fact, in the book’s cover design. ~ In publisher’s fallow textured wrappers with black decoration. A bit of light staining, otherwise very good. Three pages with recipes handwritten in ink. Scarce. [OCLC locates three copies; in neither Cook, Brown, Glozer, nor Cagle].

The Stone Killer (Original poster for the 1973 film) by Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Paul Koslo (starring); Michael Winner (director); Gerald Wilson (screenwriter)

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Title: The Stone Killer (Original poster for the 1973 film)
Author: Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Paul Koslo (starring); Michael Winner (director); Gerald Wilson (screenwriter)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Bradford: W.E. Berry, 1973. Vintage British quad poster for the 1973 Italian-English film. Based on John Gardner's 1969 novel "A Complete State of Death." A detective uncovers a plot by the mob to use Vietnam veterans in a vast murder scheme. Shot on location in New York and California. 40 x 30 inches, folded. Fine. Grant Italy.

Untapped Reserves of World Trade by Bykov, Alexander

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Title: Untapped Reserves of World Trade
Author: Bykov, Alexander
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1966. Pamphlet. 71p., stapled wraps, 4.25x6.5 inches, light handling wear, staples rusted, else very good condition. Vital Problems of Our Time.

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