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Eimyo doseki [or] Yomei doseki [Ch.: Yongming Daoji; The Religious Activities of Yongming Yanshou]

Eimyo doseki [or] Yomei doseki [Ch.: Yongming Daoji; The Religious Activities of Yongming Yanshou] by DAHE (J.: DAIEI or DAIKAKU)

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Title
Eimyo doseki [or] Yomei doseki [Ch.: Yongming Daoji; The Religious Activities of Yongming Yanshou]
Author
DAHE (J.: DAIEI or DAIKAKU)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
32 fine full-page woodcuts. 42 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. blue wrappers (wrappers rather rubbed, minor soiling), modern manuscript label on upper cover, new stitching. [Japan]: from the Japanese colophon on the penultimate leaf: “Nakano Zesui had the woodblocks carved & published this book mid-July 1655.” First edition to be published in Japan, printed in Chinese with Japanese reading marks. Yongming Yanshou (J.: Eimei (or Yomei) Enju, 904-75), was a Chan master who had a profound impact on the development of Buddhism in East Asia. Yanshou was a widely influential proponent of a scripture-based Chan, in opposition to the rhetorical and iconoclastic Chan of the Linji school. He became the first master to teach both Meditation and Pure Land Buddhism, a synthesis that dominated Chinese Buddhism after the Song dynasty. This finely illustrated biography of Yanshou was written by the late Ming monk Dahe. It contains the later notes contributed by Yu Chunxi (jinshi 1583) and Huang Ruheng (1558–1626). Yu Chunxi was a good friend of Zhuhong (1535-1615), and active in the late Ming Buddhist revival. Huang Ruheng, who moved in the same intellectual circles, was a noted calligrapher. This rare work is well illustrated with a series of 32 full-page woodcuts, starting with a “true image” of Yanshou. The remainder of the woodcuts show the major religious events in his life, from his youth to old age. We learn from the final leaf that our edition was copied from the Chinese edition of 1606. Some worming throughout. The woodcuts are largely free of worming at the beginning, but the final eight leaves are more affected. ❧ In WorldCat, the authorship of the copy at Harvard (accession no. 43420760) is given as Daiei.
Britain in Pictures. [with] Britain in Pictures: A History and Bibliography by Michael Carney

Britain in Pictures. [with] Britain in Pictures: A History and Bibliography by Michael Carney by Turner, W[alter]. J., and Shannon, Sheila, eds

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Title
Britain in Pictures. [with] Britain in Pictures: A History and Bibliography by Michael Carney
Author
Turner, W[alter]. J., and Shannon, Sheila, eds
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1941. London: Collins, 1941-1950. [and] London: Werner Shaw, 1995. 134 vols, plus 7 duplicates, mostly slim 4to, each volume has, on average, 48 illustrated pp. and 8 color plates. Decorative printed boards, dust-jackets repeating the boards pattern (and mostly present in this set), generally a very good set entirely complete with the supplementary volumes (and a few duplicates). The Carney bibliography is in original blue cloth and dust-jacket, as new. A complete listing is available on request. § A complete set of this wonderful series, generally with 48 illustrated pages and 8 color plates though some volumes vary. Original decorative boards, some with dust-jackets, This series was begun as an attempt to record all aspects of the British way of life in case the war should irreversibly change it. As a mixture of propaganda and scholastic enterprise, it is surely one of the most amazing products of its kind ever conceived, let alone achieved. The plethora of (now) famous writers and artists who contributed when many (if not most) were still fairly unknown is a tribute to the wisdom and skills of the editors W.J. Turner and Sheila Shannon, and especially the beautiful and brilliant Hilda Matheson, whose relationship with Vita Sackville-West caused Virginia Woolf such intense jealousy. Authors and artists include: Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Geoffrey Grigson, David Low, Rose Macaulay, Ngaio Marsh, Bernard Miles, Sean O'Faolain, George Orwell, David Piper, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, and exactly a hundred others. Complete sets are rare; Carney (see below) notes that it took him nearly thirty years to assemble his set. Paul Breman writes: "The acceptable face of jingoism, a splendid record of a bygone age, this series was a calculated attempt to boost flagging wartime morale, but it far outgrew its original scope and lived on through the bleak and even more depressing postwar years of seemingly endless rationing. Conceived (by Hilda Matheson, recruited for 'special work' by the Foreign Office in 1939) as a series of monographs, these Collins books add up to a unique picture of life in Britain (when still an Empire-a fact reflected in a series of volumes on the 'colonies') in its varied historical, cultural, sporting, technical, environmental, natural, sociological and political aspects. The authors were mostly in their thirties during the war, few of them yet the household names many have since become. . . . A complete series has 141 volumes, and each volume has, on average, 48 illustrated pages and 8 colour plates (the exceptions to this are the nine "One guinea" volumes, and six little anthologies of English poets, which Dorothy Wellesley, probably by dint of her investment, managed to get incorporated in the fledgling series-"these are now by far the hardest titles to find)." In 1995 Michael Carney published an engaging account of the series (Britain in Pictures: A History and Bibliography) which also includes brief biographies of the many authors.
Voyages d'Ali Bey : Explication Des Planches Composant l'Atlas des Voyages D'Ali Bey

Voyages d'Ali Bey : Explication Des Planches Composant l'Atlas des Voyages D'Ali Bey by Ali Bey el Abbassi [pseud. of Domingo Francisco Jorge Badía y Leblich]

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Title
Voyages d'Ali Bey : Explication Des Planches Composant l'Atlas des Voyages D'Ali Bey
Author
Ali Bey el Abbassi [pseud. of Domingo Francisco Jorge Badía y Leblich]
Seller
Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description
14 pp. descriptive texts and 92 illustrations in all, including a series of 85 plates, several folding, numbered as I-LXXXIII (incl. XII bis. and XXVIII bis.) ; 5 unnumbered maps, four of them large, folding (Carte géographique de l'île de Chypre, Carte géographique du royaume de Maroc, Carte géographique de l'Afrique septentrionale, Carte géographique de la côte d'Arabie, Carte routière du voyage d'Ali Bey du Caire à Constantinople) ; the frontispiece portrait of Badia y Leblich as Ali Bey El Abbassi ; and one additional unidentified architectural drawing of a mosque in profile. Oblong folio. Good to very good overall ; usual degree of foxing and offsetting throughout ; a few closed tears at the margins, esp. of the large folding plates. Original boards rubbed at the extremities and repaired at the corners. Rebacked in modern leather, preserving much of the original spine. Endpapers are new. [1297] A handsome and intact first-edition copy of the rare Atlas, often pillaged for its impressive maps and attractive views. Badia y Leblich was a Spanish traveller and spy who disguised himself as an Arab diplomat under the name of Ali Bey El Abbassi [Arabic: علي باي العباسي‎]. It is thought by modern historians that he acted as an agent of the Spanish government, who sought to extend their influence in the region. In 1803, he departed for Tangier and travelled through North Africa to Egypt, then continued on to Cyprus. He reached Mecca in early1807, then returned to Spain via Jerusalem, Damascus and Constantinople the same year. As a supporter of Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte, Badia y Leblich fled to France after Napoleonic forces in Spain were defeated in 1813, leading to the first publication of his travel memoirs in Paris. After the celebrated success of his Voyages, he embarked on a second trip to the Near East under the pseudonym "Ali Othman," initially returning to Syria where his ruse was discovered leading to his 1818 death in Aleppo. Much mystery and controversary still surrounds Badía y Leblich's legacy
Either/Or. Vols. 1 and 2

Either/Or. Vols. 1 and 2 by Kierkegaard, Søren

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Title
Either/Or. Vols. 1 and 2
Author
Kierkegaard, Søren
Seller
Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description
2nd Printing. Complete in two volumes, 387 and 304 pp. respectively. Letterpress on commercial stock in dark green cloth-covered boards and printed dust jackets. 8vo. Very good, in Good + unclipped dust jackets. Jackets with minor edgewear and light chipping, with small bits of loss, mostly to heads of spines and top and bottom fore corners. [2313] A nice set of this first English-language edition of Kierkegaard's proto-existential work. One of his last to make it into English translation, about a century after its first publication.
Lovers' Panorama, The

Lovers' Panorama, The by CRUIKSHANK, George and Robert; CRUIKSHANK, Robert

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Title
Lovers' Panorama, The
Author
CRUIKSHANK, George and Robert; CRUIKSHANK, Robert
Seller
David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
London: Hodgson & Co.,, 1835. Exceptionally Scarce Valentine Caricature by George and Robert Cruikshank Obadiah "I do confess I long have loved thee, And hope thou hast conceived the like for me;" Rachael "Yea, if thou wishest to take me to wife, I'll be thy partner thro' this weary life;" CRUIKSHANK, George & Robert. The Lovers' Panorama; or Cupid's Vagaries on St. Valentine's Day. London: Hodgson & Co., [1835]. Second Issue with changed title, otherwise identical. No date was assigned to either issue. Sixteenmo (5 3/4 x 3 3/8 inches; 146 x 86 mm.). 24 pp. Hand colored engraved vignette title-page and eleven hand colored vignettes in the text. Title-page and first two leaves slightly soiled at fore-margin, otherwise near fine. Nineteenth century burgundy paper wrappers, marbled endpapers over the original? plain wrappers. Housed in a fleece-lined, three-quarter red morocco clamshell case. According to Cohn the hand-colored engraving on the title-page is by George and Robert Cruikshank, the last two are by George Cruikshank, and the other nine are by Robert Cruikshank. OCLC locates only three copies of this issue in libraries and institutions worldwide: Yale University Library (CT., USA), McGill University Library (Montreal, Canada), and the British Library (London, UK). OCLC locates just two copies of the first issue: Trinity College Library (CT, USA), and Harvard University (MA, USA). The only copy of the first issue that we have been able to trace was the Salomons copy which appeared at auction in 1991. "This item is a second issue of "Cupid's Vagaries" (No. 216) with identical plates. It should also be noted that the price has been raised from sixpence to a shilling." (Cohn, p.151). It was first published [1822] as "Cupid's Vagaries, or the Lover's Panorama on St. Valentine's Day. (see also No. 510, "The Lovers' Panorama," which is the same work, another edition.). (Cohn, p. 72). We have never seen this title before - in either first or second issue... and there was no example in the famous Cruikshank collection of Dr. Fluhmann. (Benoit Forgeot catalog 2009). Cohn, 510.
OPERA IN QUATTUOR TOMOS DISTRIBUTA

OPERA IN QUATTUOR TOMOS DISTRIBUTA by (BINDINGS - 16TH CENTURY, BALTHASAR WERNHER). ATHANASIUS ALEXANDRINUS

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OPERA IN QUATTUOR TOMOS DISTRIBUTA
Author
(BINDINGS - 16TH CENTURY, BALTHASAR WERNHER). ATHANASIUS ALEXANDRINUS
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Basel: [Hieronymus] Froben, 1556. First Edition of this Latin Translation. 343 x 235 mm. (13 1/2 x 9 1/4"). 4 p.l., 730, 142, [2] (blank) pp., [12] leaves. Translated from the Greek by Petrus Nannius and Wolfgang Musculus. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards by Balthasar Wernher of Lauingen, covers framed by palmette rolls and a roll signed with the initials B. W. that features half-figures of Christ as Salvator Mundi, St. Paul, St. John the Baptist, and King David, central panel of upper cover with vertical palmette rolls, the blank frame around it with the letters "M G" above the panel (separated by turnip tool), the date 1557 below the panel, central panel on the lower cover with the same tooling, but surrounded by a frame with a roll of medallions of the Reformers, raised bands, ink lettering to a couple of panels, two original brass catches and catchplates (one catchplate defective). Printer's woodcut device to title page and final page, numerous decorative woodcut initials. Title page with three early ink owner inscriptions; occasional early ink marginalia and underlining. VD16 A 3980; Adams A-2083; Hoffmann I, 415. For the binding: Haebler I, 475, 3; EBDB roll r003786 and workshop w004477. Binding somewhat soiled and chafed, pigskin at one corner rubbed away, one-inch circular hole on back board (a contemporary issue, with tooling impressed on the wood beneath), isolated minor marginal stains or mild foxing, other trivial imperfections, but an extremely pleasing copy, very fresh internally, with excellent margins, in a completely satisfying unrestored contemporary binding. This collected edition of the writings of the Church Father and leading advocate of the doctrine of the Trinity comes in a lovely binding by a known German workshop. The Einbanddatenbank ("Bookbinding Database," or EBDB) of the German Research Foundation attributes the Salvator Mundi/St. Paul/King David/John the Baptist roll to Lauingen binder Balthazar Wernher (ca. 1525-74/75), whose initials appear in the panel featuring Christ. His workshop was active ca. 1555-75; the date on our binding indicates it was produced near the beginning of his career. One of the four great Eastern Doctors of the Church and the Patriarch of Alexandria, St. Athanasius (ca. 297 - 373) led the fight against the Arian doctrine, which held that Christ was a creation of God the Father rather than consubstantial with Him. Athansius’ writings on the Incarnation and the Trinity, which make up most of the text here, were enormously influential. According to Catholic historian Cornelius Clifford, "Athanasius was the greatest champion of Catholic belief on the subject of the Incarnation that the Church has ever known and in his lifetime earned the characteristic title of 'Father of Orthodoxy', by which he has been distinguished ever since." The English theologian (and Cardinal) John Henry Newman declared Athanasius a "principal instrument, after the Apostles, by which the sacred truths of Christianity have been conveyed and secured to the world." This translation of his writings was one of the final works by the Dutch humanist Petrus Nannius (Pieter Nannick, 1496-1557), a contemporary of Erasmus. The printer here was Hieronymus Froben, who took over the family business from his father Johann Froben (1460-1527), a central figure in the printing history of the 15th and early 16th centuries who played a key role both in the intellectual ferment of the northern Renaissance and the theological turmoil of the Reformation. Our substantial large folio binding, with its thick boards and four sets of muscular double bands, provides an appropriate reflection of the weightiness of the works it contains..
Nuclear Fusion" -- Atoms for Peace Poster Series by Erik Nitsche

Nuclear Fusion" -- Atoms for Peace Poster Series by Erik Nitsche by Erik Nitsche

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Title
Nuclear Fusion" -- Atoms for Peace Poster Series by Erik Nitsche
Author
Erik Nitsche
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Light dust soiling, a couple short closed tears.
Description
Lausanne, Switzerland: General Dynamics, Lith. R. Marsens, 1955. Very good. Light dust soiling, a couple short closed tears.. An exceptional poster designed by Erik Nitsche (1908-1998), while working as art director for the engineering firm General Dynamics in 1955. It is part of the "Atoms for Peace" poster series, and was exhibited by the firm at the 1955 International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva, Switzerland. What makes the series so impactful-- aside from their stunning use of color, typography, and image-- is the coherent message Nitsche has woven throughout the pieces: that atomic energy can be used for peace and modern innovation among nations, rather than destruction and discord sown by the advent of Oppenheimer's atomic bomb. The posters each feature a different minimal, yet nuanced expression of modern science and innovation, with the phrase "Atoms for Peace" in different languages including French, Hindi, English, Spanish, German, Italian, and Arabic. Nitsche, Erik. "Nuclear Fusion". Lausanne: General Dynamics, Lith. R. Marsens, 1955. Lithographed poster measuring approx. 50" by 35". Minimalist design representing nuclear fusion using arrows and blocks of color, with English phrase "exploring the universe" at head.
Camp Fire Girls Binder of Sue Murphy of Hood River, Oregon, with Letters from Pen Pal Kathleen Wyatt in Chesham, England

Camp Fire Girls Binder of Sue Murphy of Hood River, Oregon, with Letters from Pen Pal Kathleen Wyatt in Chesham, England by Sue Murphy

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Camp Fire Girls Binder of Sue Murphy of Hood River, Oregon, with Letters from Pen Pal Kathleen Wyatt in Chesham, England
Author
Sue Murphy
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Hood River, Oregon, 1952. Very good.. A binder filled with ephemera and manuscript material that comprises a remarkable record of one girl's time as a Camp Fire Girl in the mid- to late-1940s in Hood River, Oregon. Belonging to Sue Murphy, the binder (11" by 9.5") is made of green cloth and has been hand-painted with the Camp Fire Girls logo. Inside, a printed logo with Sue's name in manuscript ink has been pasted to the front pastedown, along with two printed sleeves containing Certificates of Membership. Other items include: four rank certificates ("Wood Gatherer", "Trail Seeker", "Torch Bearer", "Fire Maker"); a ten-leaf book bound with string, each page with specimens of feathers or leaves; Sue's bound folder of periodical cuttings and manuscript notes, which she submitted for the rank of "Torch Bearer in Home Making"; and a number of loose leaves with typewritten or handwritten notes relating to her Camp Fire Girl activities. There is also a grouping of 5 letters from a pen pal named Kathleen Wyatt of Chesham, England, including one relating news of the death of King George VI ("I felt most sorry for Princess Elizabeth, who had started her tour, it must have been an awful shock..."). Camp Fire Girls was established in 1910 to encourage young girls to engage with nature and self-improvement. It became co-ed in 1975, and added an inclusion clause in 1993 supporting LGBTQ+ children.
Ligerísimo Bosquejo de la Vida de Francisco [caption title]

Ligerísimo Bosquejo de la Vida de Francisco [caption title] by [Mexico]. [Religion]. [Gordillo, Francisco]

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Title
Ligerísimo Bosquejo de la Vida de Francisco [caption title]
Author
[Mexico]. [Religion]. [Gordillo, Francisco]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Mexico City, 1807. Very good.. Letterpress broadside illustrated with large engraving, 12 x 8.25 inches. Minor wear and foxing, engraving printed slightly off register. An evocative and rare Mexican broadside relating the story of Italian Jesuit Francesco de Geronimo (1642-1716). The portrait was executed by Francisco Gordillo, also the chief assayer of the Mexico City mint. This broadside was produced the year following Francesco's beatification in 1806; he was later canonized as a saint in 1839. This "Very Light Sketch of the Life of Francisco" includes a biographical history of Geronimo, as well as a physical description and information on his beatification and burial. "St. Francis wanted to be sent to preach in the Far East but the Jesuit authorities wanted him to stay in Naples, which was the centre of his apostolic labours. He worked through the 'Oratorio delle Missioni,' an organization of working men which functioned as a sickness benefit and funeral society. His preaching was famous: sometimes he would bring a skull to the pulpit, at others scourge his bare shoulders with an iron chain until they bled. He established hostels for reformed prostitutes and their children. His beatification, postponed by the suppression of the Jesuit order, finally took place in 1806, and his canonisation in 1839" - New Catholic Encyclopedia. Rare at auction, and with only five copies in OCLC, at the California State Library, Boston College, University of Pennsylvania, the JCB (Mathes copy), and the Wellcome Library.
Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea. In the years. 1819-20-21-22

Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea. In the years. 1819-20-21-22 by FRANKLIN, John

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Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea. In the years. 1819-20-21-22
Author
FRANKLIN, John
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: John Murray, 1824. Second Edition. Complete with half title, large folding frontispiece map, and 3 additional large folding plates. Half calf and marbled boards, spine and extremities rubbed; lightly foxed on endpapers, text somewhat toned. Overall, a good copy from the library of Edwin C. Jellett (1860-1929), an American author well known for his various books about Germantown, Pennsyvania, with his book-label on the paste-down. Second edition (as stated on the title page) of Franklin’s harrowing 5,500 mile expedition to the North that resulted in starvation, cannibalism, and murder. Tasked with charting the geography from the mouth of the Coppermine River to the far east of North America, Franklin’s journey was doomed from the start. As a result of poor planning, slow progress, and bad luck, the expedition was fraught with disaster: supplies were not readily available, winter came early, and food was so scarce that one of the crew eventually turned to murder and cannibalism as a result of the miserable, cold conditions. A total of nine men died due to exposure, starvation, or at the hand of their one deranged companion. Franklin (1786-1847) was a noted naval office, explorer, and author, most famous for his expeditions charting the geography and latitude and longitude of the Arctic Circle. He took part in multiple historic voyages and naval battles, including the Battle of Copenhagen (1801), a failed expedition to circumnavigate Australia (1801), and the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) aboard the HMS Bellerophon. Franklin took part in several voyages in search of the Northwest Passage, and ultimately went missing during his journey of 1845 with the rest of his crew dying of starvation and disease.
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The Kilpeck Anthology. Edited by Glenn Storhaug by (WILLIAMS, Jonathan)

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Title
The Kilpeck Anthology. Edited by Glenn Storhaug
Author
(WILLIAMS, Jonathan)
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
As new
Description
(Madley, Herefordshire): Five Seasons Press, 1981. First edition. One of 50 special copies designed, hand set & printed on Penhurst Light Toned handmade paper by Glenn Storhaug. With contributions by JW, Seamus Heaney, D. M. Thomas, among others. As new. 4to, illustrations by John Furnival, Alan Halsey, Caroline Hands, G. R. Lewis, Kenneth Lindley, Jeff Nuttall, Al Vandenberg, Enok Sweetland, & Brian Nevitt, pictorial endpapers, quarter morocco & linen, linen slipcase. As new.
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Poem-Scapes by PATCHEN, Kenneth

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Title
Poem-Scapes
Author
PATCHEN, Kenneth
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Fore-edge lightly foxed, covers a little dusty, otherwise a fine copy.
Description
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. One of 1500 copies. Jargon 11. With a blurb by Henry Miller on the back cover. Fore-edge lightly foxed, covers a little dusty, otherwise a fine copy.. 8vo, stiff wrappers. Fore-edge lightly foxed, covers a little dusty, otherwise a fine copy.
Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts

Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts by Ward, Lynd

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Title
Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
Author
Ward, Lynd
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The covers and spine label are age-toned. The extremities are lightly rubbed, and there are a couple of short splits in the cloth at the head of the backstrip. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Dance 002. The first of Ward's six wordless novels that is told exclusively through 144 striking woodcut illustrations. Lynd Ward was not only a talented printmaker, but he was a socially-conscious storyteller as well. "Gods' Man," a modern morality play, was the work that built his reputation. It depicts the deadly bargaining of the soul that a struggling young artist is willing to make. This copy is signed by Lynd Ward on the half title.
OUR TOWN

OUR TOWN by WILDER, Thornton

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Title
OUR TOWN
Author
WILDER, Thornton
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase, as new
Description
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. First Limited Edition. hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase, as new. Robert J. Lee. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11-3/4") bound in full brown corduroy with an oval leather spine label; 132 pages. With an introduction by Brooks Atkinson and a note by the author. Illustrated by Robert J. Lee with 4 double-page color plates,3 full-page monochrome plates, and 18 marginal sketches printed in a rosy terra-cotta. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist and by the author, the only limited edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play and certainly the easiest and least expensive way to obtain a signed copy. This copy is directly from the publisher's Connecticut office and is not numbered but is essentially untouched since publication. After reading this play, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Wilder comparing OUR TOWN to Homer's ODYSSEY and Shakespeare's HAMLET, stating: "That an American of the present day can create with such delicacy and detachment touches the soul like a miracle."
The New Soldier

The New Soldier by KERRY, John and Vietnam Veteran Against the War

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
The New Soldier
Author
KERRY, John and Vietnam Veteran Against the War
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Collier Books, 1971. Softcover. Fine. First paperback edition, issued simultaneously with the hardcover issue. Quarto. Top corner a little rubbed, else about fine. Advance Review Copy with letter from the editor sending this Advance copy to American novelist Mary McCarthy.
Transactions of the The Grolier Club of the City of New York from July Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine to December Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. Part IV

Transactions of the The Grolier Club of the City of New York from July Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine to December Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. Part IV

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Title
Transactions of the The Grolier Club of the City of New York from July Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine to December Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. Part IV
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: The Grolier Club, 1921. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with some modest age-toning, and fine unprinted cardboard slipcase. One of 404 copies.
White House Bill Signing Pen Collection

White House Bill Signing Pen Collection by Bush, George H.W.

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Title
White House Bill Signing Pen Collection
Author
Bush, George H.W.
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine
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[Washington, D.C.]: The White House, 1990. Bill Signing Pens. Cardboard Covers. Fine. White House Bill Signing Pens from the George H.W. Bush Administration, a collection of 12 individual pens.. Housed in a cardboard box, white plastic tray inside. Includes 12 blue and chrome ballpoint pens made by the Parker Pen Company. Each features a presidential seal and replica signature of George Bush. Business card of "Romano L. Mazzoli / Member of Congress" included with the set. From the estate of Rep Ron Mazzoli (1932-2022), a Louisville Democrat who represented Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House from 1971-1995. Mazzoli was a leading architect of modern immigration policy, the principal House author (with Sen. Alan Simpson) of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
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An Artist in Rome: Poems by John Tagliabue Inspired by the Paintings of Adam Van Doren by TAGLIABUE, John. VAN DOREN, Adam (paitings by). (Pelli, Cesar)

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An Artist in Rome: Poems by John Tagliabue Inspired by the Paintings of Adam Van Doren
Author
TAGLIABUE, John. VAN DOREN, Adam (paitings by). (Pelli, Cesar)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
As New
Description
Kelly-Winterton Press, 2009. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. PRESENTATION COPY from artist van Doren to arhcitect Cesar Pelli, inscribed by van Doren on the half title "To Cesar with admiration. Best, Adam 1/31/17" With a ANS on a correspondence card (with envelope) of van Doren as lecturer, residential college seminars at Yale: "Jan 31, 2017 Dear Cesar. Many thanks for sharing your memories of Yale. Best, Adam" Limited edition, 500 copies, signed by van Doren on the colophon. Ten colored plates of van Doren's paintings. AS NEW IN SLIPCASE.
Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, & In Watermelon Sugar

Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, & In Watermelon Sugar by Brautigan, Richard

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Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, & In Watermelon Sugar
Author
Brautigan, Richard
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First Thus. First combined edition. Also the first hardcover edition of Trout Fishing in America, as well as the first trade hardcovers of the other two books. [xxii], 112 [2], [xviii], 108, [2]; [xiv], 138, [6] pp. Illustrated boards. Near Fine with rubbed bottom edge, name on front free endpaper, a little toning to contents, in an unclipped dust jacket with a few scratches to back panel, else Near Fine with some toning.
Sing Sing Capital Punishment and "Honest-Graft.

Sing Sing Capital Punishment and "Honest-Graft. by Smith, Florence J.

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Sing Sing Capital Punishment and "Honest-Graft.
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Smith, Florence J.
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
New York: Connolly Press, 1927. Hardcover. 111pp in good condition. An expose of Sing Sing and urging the use of Wingdale Prison, with a folding plate of Wingdale Prison.
One page manuscript list of the inventory of Amos French of Salisbury, MA., 1814

One page manuscript list of the inventory of Amos French of Salisbury, MA., 1814

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One page manuscript list of the inventory of Amos French of Salisbury, MA., 1814
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
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Some foxing and folds. Among the items are Bibles and other old books, church pew, quilts, looking glasses and more.
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Slippin' into Darkness by Norman Partridge

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Slippin' into Darkness
Author
Norman Partridge
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9781881475071
Condition
As New
Description
Signed Stated First Edition; signed by both the author and the illustrator; #169 of 500 of a limited print run; This is a beautiful copy of this special edition....only time this book has been opened was to obtain the signatures apparently - it is in as new condition! Authors first novel. Protected by a fresh mylar cover.
[TRAVEL] A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. IN TWENTY-EIGHT VOLUEMS. VOL. XI

[TRAVEL] A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. IN TWENTY-EIGHT VOLUEMS. VOL. XI

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[TRAVEL] A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. IN TWENTY-EIGHT VOLUEMS. VOL. XI
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
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Very Good binding
Description
London: Richard Phillips, 1809. Very Good binding. 8vo.; half red morocco over marbled boards, with the spine lettered and ruled in gilt; 372 pages, with a fragile folding map “View of Teneriffe from the Point of Nago” which is beginning to separate.~~The contents of this volume include: “Voyage of Captain Phipps, towards the North Pole”; “Voyage of Captain Thomas Forrest, to New Guinea, and the Moluccas”; “Voyage of Captain Henry Wilson, principally relating to the Shipwreck on the Pelew Islands, and subsequent Proceedings”; “Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay”; “The Journal of a Voyage to Lisong, by Henry Fielding”; “Voyage to the Indian Seas and Japan...by Charles Peter Thunberg.”~~. Very Good binding.
Dead Babies

Dead Babies by AMIS, Martin

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Dead Babies
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AMIS, Martin
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780394498256
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 206 pages. The second novel from the author of "Money," "London Fields," and "Time's Arrow." A tight near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some minor wear, a small sticker shadow to the front pastedown but with bright topstain and none of the usual fading to the edges and in a very near fine dust jacket. A much nicer than usual copy.
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WE MODERNS, A POST-WAR COMEDY IN THREE MOVEMENTS (ALLEGRO, ANDANTE, ADAGIO) by Zangwill, Israel

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WE MODERNS, A POST-WAR COMEDY IN THREE MOVEMENTS (ALLEGRO, ANDANTE, ADAGIO)
Author
Zangwill, Israel
Seller
Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York, NY.: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in blue cloth with a printed paper label on the spine. The covers show light scuffing, toning to the edges and spine, edge-wear, and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. There is a previous owner bookplate on the front paste-down. .
Family Government, a Treatise on Conjugal, Parental, and Filial Duties

Family Government, a Treatise on Conjugal, Parental, and Filial Duties by Andrew, James O.

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Family Government, a Treatise on Conjugal, Parental, and Filial Duties
Author
Andrew, James O.
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Philadelphia: Saurian and Ball, 1846. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 175pp. Pencil scribble on endpapers and pastedown, , foxed throughout, boards spotted with some wear to the extremities, else good in publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind.
England's Constable; The Life and Letters of John Constable

England's Constable; The Life and Letters of John Constable by Darracott, Joseph

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England's Constable; The Life and Letters of John Constable
Author
Darracott, Joseph
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Folio Society, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, lightly rubbed. Grey cloth with a black ink panel and pictorial pastedown on the front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Thomas Young, Natural Philosopher 1773-1829. by [YOUNG, Thomas] WOOD, Alexander; Frank OLDHAM.

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Thomas Young, Natural Philosopher 1773-1829.
Author
[YOUNG, Thomas] WOOD, Alexander; Frank OLDHAM.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Cambridge:: University Press, 1954., 1954. 8vo. xx, 355 pp. Frontis., plates, figures, appendices, index. Gilt-stamped blue cloth, dust jacket; worn jacket. Bookplate of Roger Hahn. Very good.

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