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[Japonisme] Business Printed Announcement Letter with Japanese Illustrated Decoration and Japanese Stamps by Wild, Josh

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: [Japonisme] Business Printed Announcement Letter with Japanese Illustrated Decoration and Japanese Stamps
Author: Wild, Josh
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1899. NA. Matting. Very Good. A piece of ephemera whose interest lies not in its content but rather its embrace of Japonisme. It is especially telling that it does so in a communication in which it would seem doing so in all likelihood would be utterly superfluous as well as irrelevant to the message. We do recognize that the unidentified company may have had a strong nexus with Japan in its business, whether its location or presence, a roster of Japanese suppliers or customers and/or a specialization in fabrics associated with Japan in some way, whether material, pattern, etc., but even if that were the case, we find the choice of stationary bazarre. The letter measures 27 by 19 cm, and it is matted with a matt whose margins are 4 cm wide on the side, 5 cm top and bottom, making the whole matt 35.5 by 26 cm. The basic content of the letter is printed, excepting the signature which appears to be done by hand, and reads as follows: "We beg to announce that Mr. F. W. Hall (Formerly with City Mills Company) is now in charge of FELT DEPARTMENT We thank you for past favors and hope for a continuance of same. Very truly yours, Josh Wild [indecipherable short scribble) December, 1899." In our admittedly cursory Google search, we have located a City Mills Company based in Massachusetts in the late 19th Century, but given the generic character of such a business name, we can't say this was the company named in the letter, and in any event, it is a company that Mr. Hall had left, not the company issuing this letter. Regardless, as we have already maintained, it is the aesthetics of the letter, not its textual content, that are of significance. So the Japanisme aesthetic is evident in several ways. The most obvious is the illustrations of Japanese women and a boy and a girl in traditional garb, a cherry tree arching branch which is acting as a partial border, and not to be slighted, a cat holding up a branch from a cherry tree, this last a nice touch that plays into the Japanese passion for cats. Also, suspended from the branch at the top of the sheet are five canceled Japanese stamps. Finally, the thin paper is just the type used in many a Japanese publication of the era. Condition: a moderate amount of foxing and uneven light browning of the paper. The paper has three folds, now flattened, which suggest that the paper was folded neatly into a smallish envelope back when. The letter, thankfully, is rather loosely attached to the matting. The matting is off-white and in our view, somewhat drab but certainly functional. It is age toned lightly around its edges, and has some minor edge wear, which would be concealed if framed. But chances are an owner wishing to frame the letter, and it certainly deserves to be displayed thus, would replace the matting.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Rowling, J. K.

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA

Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: Rowling, J. K.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Bloomsbury, 2007 First edition, first printing. Publisher's pictorial boards, with Harry, Ron, and Hermione illustration to front board, lettered in white, gray, and black; in its matching pictorial dust jacket. Fine book, with just a tiny crease to head of spine; about fine unclipped dust jacket, with light creasing to head of spine, and a tiny nick to top left corner of rear panel. Overall, a bright and fresh copy. Errington A14(a). The seventh and final book in the popular series by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows brings the adventures of Harry Potter and his companions to a dramatic end. After several brushes with death at the hands of Lord Voldemort, Harry and the rest of the trio fight alongside their friends and family in the Battle of Hogwarts to determine the fate of the school and the wizarding world. The story deepens Rowling's exploration of good versus evil as various characters are revealed to have more complex motivations behind their actions, testing the sympathy of both their enemies and the reader. At its release, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows broke the record for fastest-selling book ever, with 15 million copies sold within 24 hours.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

ANNALS OF THE GREAT KANAWHA by William D. Wintz

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Title: ANNALS OF THE GREAT KANAWHA
Author: William D. Wintz
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Charleston WV: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Previous owner’s name and date on the front free endpaper along with a few notes ; otherwise a clean copy. The dust jacket has a bot of sunning on the botton front edge, is not price clipped and is now protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

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