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[The Tale of Flowering Splendor] by EIGA MONOGATARI 栄花物語

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Title: [The Tale of Flowering Splendor]
Author: EIGA MONOGATARI 栄花物語
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 1615. Printed in kanji & hiragana. Eleven lines per page, 20-22 characters per line. 40 parts in 20 vols. 8vo (260 x 197 mm.), orig. semi-stiff blue wrappers (a little rubbed, several upper covers with careful mending), early manuscript title slips on covers, new stitching. [Japan]: ca. Genna to mid-Kan’ei (1615-40). First edition of the Eiga Monogatari [The Tale of Flowering Splendor], a work entirely written by women (see below). It has sometimes been compared to the Tale of Genji. We find no copy in WorldCat. This a fine example of Japanese printing by movable type (kokatsuji ban), a technology that David Chibbett, in his The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration (Kodansha: 1977), describes as “the single most significant single occurrence in the development of printing in Japan up until then” (p. 61). This is the fine set from the library of Frank Hawley, scholar and one of the most discerning collectors of Japanese books and manuscripts. His stamp appears on the first page of each volume. Eiga Monogatari is a “late Heian rekishi monogatari (ca. 1092). Its forty parts are considered to consist of thirty main and ten additional units by different hands…Whatever the authorship, there is a degree of unity from the subject of the glory (eiga) of the court depicted and from the attention to the main character, Fujiwara Michinaga, under whom the Fujiwara regency and the court reached its cultural and political pinnacle… “Most opinions hold to female authorship, or at least to participation by women in gathering materials. A tradition going as far back as the Kamakura period and accepted in some fashion by many holds the work to be by Akazome Emon [ca. 957-1041], an attribution some think derives from her service at the most cultured royal household of the time, that of Jōtō Mon’in, where Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu were the chief literary figures. It seems likely that Akazome Emon had some part in the work: as author of one of the several works presumed as sources, as a compiler of such sources, as a kind of editor — or as more than one of these… “Another attribution credits the first twenty-seven books (in which the poems are the most numerous) to another woman, Idewa no Ben, daughter of Taira Suenobu — hence her full appellation, Dewa no Kami, Taira Suenobu no Musume Idewa no Ben. On this view, the other thirteen books are by some unknown court lady… “The work inaugurated rekishi monogatari, historical tales…The splendors mentioned by the title are those of the two centuries and of the fifteen reigns from Uda (r. 887-897) to part of the reign of Horikawa (r. 1086-1107)… “The main subject becomes court life, especially as viewed by women’s eyes…Above all, it is an encyclopedic work, rich in details of dress, customs, and so on.”–Miner et al., The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature (1985), pp. 146-47. Fine set, preserved in three chitsu. With a bit of mostly marginal dampstaining and worming here and there. PROVENANCE: With the ownership slip on upper cover of first volume and seal on final leaf of final volume of Ozu Hisatari (1804-58), a member of a wealthy merchant family active in Kyoto, Osaka, and Edo. He was a noted book collector and ancestor of the director Ozu Yasujirō. This set then entered the library of Hirase Rokō (1839-1908), an influential and wealthy Osaka merchant (with his seal at the beginning of each volume). For Hawley, see R.H. van Gulik’s “In Memoriam. Frank Hawley (1906-1961)” in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 16, No. 3/4 (Oct. 1960-Jan. 1961), pp. 434-47. This set appeared in Shigeo Sorimachi’s monumental 40th anniversary catalogue of 1972, devoted to movable type books, item 216. ❧ Kazuma Kawase 川瀬一馬, Kokatsuji-ban no kenkyu 古活字版之研究 [Study of the Early Typographic Editions of Japan] (1967), Vol. I, p. 529 & Vol. 3, p. 132, no. 394 (illustration).

The Story-Life of Lincoln by Wayne Whipple

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Title: The Story-Life of Lincoln
Author: Wayne Whipple
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Description: John C Winston Company, 1908. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Beautiful Fine Copy In Decorative Blue Boards1/800 Copies First Edition..Great Biography of Lincoln.Gorgeous copy..

HYMNS FOR CHILDREN, IN PROSE by Barbauld, Mrs. [Anna Laetitia Barbauld]

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Title: HYMNS FOR CHILDREN, IN PROSE
Author: Barbauld, Mrs. [Anna Laetitia Barbauld]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: New Haven: S. Babcock, 1843. Very good plus.. First edition thus, from New Haven published Babcock, of this illustrated collection of hymns by one of the most famous children's writers of the 19th century. HYMNS FOR CHILDREN was "immensely influential in [its] time; [it] was reprinted throughout the nineteenth century... and [its] effect on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class people, who learned to read from them, is incalculable" (McCarthy, 196). We locate only one holding of this edition of HYMNS on OCLC; a rare copy of an important title. 3'' x 1.75''. Original blue pictorial wrappers, saddle-stitched. Three full-page woodcut illustrations. 8 pages.

LOVE ON THE MOOR: Poems 1965-68 by HUGHES, Glyn

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Title: LOVE ON THE MOOR: Poems 1965-68
Author: HUGHES, Glyn
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good +.
Description: (Didsbury, Manchester): Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1968. First Edition. Very good +.. First edition collection from this English poet whose works had previously been printed in the Times Literary Supplement and who was the subject of a BBC radio segment. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled plain printed wraps. Very good plus. Light toning and thumbsoil to wraps; touches of edgewear; one corner crease to rear. Internally clean and unmarred. 24pp.

The Book of Lord Shang. A Classic of the Chinese School of Law by Shang, Yang; J.J.L. Duyvendak (translator & ed

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Title: The Book of Lord Shang. A Classic of the Chinese School of Law
Author: Shang, Yang; J.J.L. Duyvendak (translator & ed
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Description: 2011. ISBN-13:9781616191870; ISBN-10:1616191872. Shang, Yang. The Book of Lord Shang. A Classic of the Chinese School of Law. Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Notes by Dr. J.J.L. Duyvendak. Originally published: London: Arthur Probsthain, 1928. xiv, 346 pp. Reprinted 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616191870; ISBN-10: 1616191872. Paperback. New. $19.95 * Reprint of Volume XVII in Probsthain's Oriental Series. With a Chinese index and an index of names and references. The Book of Lord Shang was probably compiled sometime between 359 and 338 BCE. Along with the Han Fei-Tzu, it is one of the two principal sources of Legalism, a school of Chinese political thought. Legalism asserts that human behavior must be controlled through written law rather than through ritual, custom or ethics because people are innately selfish and ignorant. The law is not effective when it is based on goodness or virtue; it is effective when it compels obedience. This is essential to preserve the stability of the State. Roscoe Pound recommended this book for the study of old Chinese law in Outlines of Lectures on Jurisprudence (5th ed.) 235.

Political Affairs, Vol. XXXVIII No. 2, February 1959 by Aptheker, Herbert (Editor)

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Title: Political Affairs, Vol. XXXVIII No. 2, February 1959
Author: Aptheker, Herbert (Editor)
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: New Century Publishers, 1959. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 65pp. Rubbed and edgeworn, else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. "Africa Lifts Its Voice" by Shirley Graham, "The Cuban People and the Batista Tyranny" by Lazaro Pena, "On the Civil War and Lincoln" by Karl Marx, "Give Who Made History" by Herbert Aptheker, "The California Elections" by Albert J. Lima, "The California Elections" by A. Krchmarek, "On Questions Concerning People's Communes" by Central Committee CP of China, "The Lessons of the French Elections" and "Party Program Discussion" by Editorial Board, Cahiers Du Communisme.

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