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Picture scroll, entitled on label on outside of front silk-brocade endpaper “Shunsho no mutsu hana” [“Flowering Intimate Moments at Dusk”], with 12 erotic paintings on silk panels (each ca. 245 x 342 mm.) & pasted on gold-speckled paper, with ample use of metallic pigments & paint made from ground-up seashells

Picture scroll, entitled on label on outside of front silk-brocade endpaper “Shunsho no mutsu hana” [“Flowering Intimate Moments at Dusk”], with 12 erotic paintings on silk panels (each ca. 245 x 342 mm.) & pasted on gold-speckled paper, with ample use of metallic pigments & paint made from ground-up seashells by EROTIC SCROLL

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Picture scroll, entitled on label on outside of front silk-brocade endpaper “Shunsho no mutsu hana” [“Flowering Intimate Moments at Dusk”], with 12 erotic paintings on silk panels (each ca. 245 x 342 mm.) & pasted on gold-speckled paper, with ample use of metallic pigments & paint made from ground-up seashells
Author
EROTIC SCROLL
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Scroll (290 x 4780 mm.), with gold paper inner endpaper at front, wooden core roller. [Japan]: n.d., but late Edo or early Meiji. A fine example of an erotic scroll, anonymously painted as usual but with great skill. The scroll contains 12 erotic scenes painted on silk (the well-known “set of 12“ format) of men and women engaged in various sexual activities. As in many shunga hand scrolls, the paintings feature a sequence of lovemaking positions in no apparent order. The figures are drawn to express a fluidity of movement, passion, and pleasure. The accomplished artist has used delicate shading to heighten the scenes. The kimono are richly decorated. In several scenes, the women’s pleasure is expressed by curled toes and fingers. The paintings are richly detailed with metallic pigments, elaborately rendered hairstyles, and renderings of luxurious kimono fabrics. Erotic paintings in Japan have a long tradition, established well before the Edo period. “Many aspects regarding the production of early paintings with sexual content — when, where and by whom they were made, how they were appreciated — are still obscure…There was apparently a radical change in the form of erotic hand scrolls from around 1600 onwards when paintings with a sequence of twelve erotic scenes became common…Each scene in hand scrolls of this type does not normally show any clear relationship with the adjacent scenes, nor is there usually any development, other than presenting a variety of couplings and sexual techniques. Each group of copulating figures exists within its own enclosed space, set against a plain or simply decorated background, as if functioning as an example of a possible sexual position… “Shunga painting remained an important genre in terms of both quality and quantity right up until the modern era, and should no longer be excluded from the study of Japanese art and the broader study of the humanities…The concept of twelve in shunga had more to do with a general sense of completeness, a full cycle.”–Akiko Yano, “Shunga Paintings before the ‘Floating World’,” in Timothy Clark et al., eds., Shunga. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (British Museum: 2013), pp. 62 & 70-72. In fine condition. The extreme edges of each silk panel are slightly spotted due to the glue used.
President Cleveland Declares Thanksgiving

President Cleveland Declares Thanksgiving by Grover Cleveland

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Seller: The Raab Collection
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President Cleveland Declares Thanksgiving
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Grover Cleveland
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
02/11/1885. It is fitting and proper that a nation thus favored should on one day in every year...publicly acknowledge the goodness of God and return thanks to Him for all His gracious gifts.The holiday we know today as Thanksgiving was conceived by Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of the prominent magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, who engaged in a campaign over years to get Thanksgiving accepted as a national holiday in the United States. She recommended this to Abraham Lincoln in 1861, and on November 28, 1861, he signed a proclamation saying, “I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.” The next national Thanksgiving was declared by Lincoln in April 1862, and in 1863 he declared Thanksgivings for both August 6 and the last Thursday in November. He went on to declare a similar Thanksgiving observance in 1864, establishing a precedent that was followed by his successor, Andrew Johnson, who declared a Thanksgiving for December 7, 1865. Johnson gave government employees the day off, making the day a legal holiday. The precedent established by Lincoln has been adhered to by every subsequent president.Document Signed, Washington, November 2, 1885. The President declares “It is fitting and proper that a nation thus favored should on one day in every year...publicly acknowledge the goodness of God and return thanks to Him for all His gracious gifts. Therefore I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday the 26th of November instant as a day of public Thanksgiving and prayer, and do invoke the observance of the same by all the people of the land.” The document is countersigned by Secretary of State Thomas Bayard. Every president’s official Thanksgiving proclamation is, of course, in the National Archives. Along with these official proclamations, presidents have signed several additional copies to be distributed to officials. This is one of those copies and marks Cleveland’s first Thanksgiving proclamation in the White House.In 1941, Congress enacted a law to fix the date of Thanksgiving at the fourth Thursday in November, and FDR signed it. Thus did Thanksgiving become an “official” national holiday.
The Private Ear and The Public Eye. Two One-Act Plays

The Private Ear and The Public Eye. Two One-Act Plays by SHAFFER, Peter

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The Private Ear and The Public Eye. Two One-Act Plays
Author
SHAFFER, Peter
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A fine copy in near fine modestly rubbed dust jacket. Inscribed by Shaffer: "To Michael Curtis from Peter Shaffer, with best wishes." Author's second published work. Uncommon signed.
The Ocean as a Health Resort: a practical handbook of the sea for the use of tourists and health-seekers. Second edition.

The Ocean as a Health Resort: a practical handbook of the sea for the use of tourists and health-seekers. Second edition. by WILSON, William Samuel.

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The Ocean as a Health Resort: a practical handbook of the sea for the use of tourists and health-seekers. Second edition.
Author
WILSON, William Samuel.
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
London:: J. & A. Churchill, 1881., 1881. Small 8vo. xvi, 351, [1], [12] pp. Ex-library copy with markings on title. Rear pocket with a large folding chart of the world showing the principal ocean routes and illustrating the physical geography of the sea; modest and neat repair to the splitting on the plate fold, some loss to top edge. Original green gilt-stamped cloth; extremities worn, joints heavily repaired with kozo. Good working copy. Particularly of Australia and New Zealand. Often seen without the folding ocean world map, which is present here.
Josh Smith: Hidden Darts Reader

Josh Smith: Hidden Darts Reader by SMITH, Josh (artist); Achim HOCHDÖRFER

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Josh Smith: Hidden Darts Reader
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SMITH, Josh (artist); Achim HOCHDÖRFER
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9783865604958
Condition
A near fine copy
Description
Germany: Walther Konig Verlag, 2009. A near fine copy. 8.75 x 6.75 inches. 220 pages. Orginal printed wrappers. First edition. "Published to accompany Josh Smith's one-person exhibition at Vienna's Museum of Modern Art, this volume contains scores of recent works alongside a very generous selection of texts. Smith is described by Achim Hochdörfer as "Very similar to Kippenberger, but more American, more working class and more jaded probably--less hopeful" (the publisher).
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MAINSPRINGS OF MEN [signed] by Williams, Whiting, 1878-

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MAINSPRINGS OF MEN [signed]
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Williams, Whiting, 1878-
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Hardcover. Octavo, vi, 313 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is tan with black print. Boards in tan cloth; wear to spine caps and corners, mottled fading to front panel, shelf wear, light warping. Text block has tanning to endpapers, stamped owner name on front flyleaf. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and plates (photographs, drawings). Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1408640. FP New Rockville Stock.
High Adventure Number 35

High Adventure Number 35 by [Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Gunnison, John P.

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Title
High Adventure Number 35
Author
[Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Gunnison, John P.
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781886937178
Condition
Fine
Description
Silver Spring: Adventure House, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Very Good. Wraps bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, some curling to the pages, clean otherwise. A reprinting of Operator #5 from 1937. From the collection of Joan Bledig.
Golf in the Comic Strips; A Historic Collection of Classic Cartoons
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Golf in the Comic Strips; A Historic Collection of Classic Cartoons by ZIEHM, Howard

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Title
Golf in the Comic Strips; A Historic Collection of Classic Cartoons
Author
ZIEHM, Howard
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN
9781575440538
Condition
fine
Description
Santa Monica: General Publishing Group, 1997. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Many color and b/w Illus. Oblong 4to, brown boards, d.w. (Santa Monica): General Publishing Group, (1997). Fine

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