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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 by EROTIC SCROLL

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Title: 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 by Grover Cleveland

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Title: President Cleveland Declares Thanksgiving
Author: 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 by SHAFFER, Peter

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: 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.

Elaine May (screenwriter), Mike Nichols (director) PRIMARY COLORS (Apr 8, 1997) Rainbow film script by Elaine May

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Title: Elaine May (screenwriter), Mike Nichols (director) PRIMARY COLORS (Apr 8, 1997) Rainbow film script
Author: Elaine May
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Just About Fine
Description: Np. Softcover/Paperback. Just About Fine. Np: 1997. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm), 150 pp., brad bound, moderate creasing to printed studio wrappers. Dated April 8, 1997, with many pages of revisions on different colors of paper. Credited to Elaine May on front wrapper, just about fine. Elaine May wrote the screenplay for this comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, a roman à clef about the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign, which was originally published anonymously, but in 1996 was revealed to have been written by journalist Joe Klein, who had been covering Clinton's campaign for Newsweek. The film stars John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman, and Adrian Lester. (Wikipedia)

DEATH CHOSEN RATHER THAN LIFE: OR, THE UPRIGHT HAPPY IN DEATH. A SERMON, PREACHED IN WATERTOWN, DECEMBER 14, 1787. AT THE FUNERAL OF THE REV. JOHN TRUMBULL, SENIOR PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN WESTBURY, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 13TH, 1787. IN THE 73D YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND 48TH OF HIS MINISTRY. BY SIMON WATERMAN, A.M., PASTOR OF THE 2D CHURCH OF CHRIST IN WATERTOWN by Waterman, Simon

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Title: DEATH CHOSEN RATHER THAN LIFE: OR, THE UPRIGHT HAPPY IN DEATH. A SERMON, PREACHED IN WATERTOWN, DECEMBER 14, 1787. AT THE FUNERAL OF THE REV. JOHN TRUMBULL, SENIOR PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN WESTBURY, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 13TH, 1787. IN THE 73D YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND 48TH OF HIS MINISTRY. BY SIMON WATERMAN, A.M., PASTOR OF THE 2D CHURCH OF CHRIST IN WATERTOWN
Author: Waterman, Simon
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1788. 32pp. Disbound and lacking the half title. Good+. Reverend Trumbull, an orderly and considerate man, "nominated the preacher at his funeral, and directed what neighbouring ministers should be desired to attend on that occasion; and who should insert in the public papers the account of his death: he also desired some of his particular friends, and leading members of his church, to take care that his funeral was conducted with propriety and christian decency. He also ordered the joiner to prepare him a decent, but plain unornamented coffin." The Reverend's "nephew was Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull, the only colonial governor to support the war for independence. Gov. Trumbull's son was the artist John Trumbull, whose paintings of the Revolutionary War, including the signing of the Declaration of Independence, are on view in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol building." Trumbull also owned a few slaves. ["Rev. John Trumbull," Waterbury's Slave Owners, Fortune's Story Website of the Mattatuck Historical Society, accessed February 4, 2019.] Evans 21574. Trumbull 1568.

Argument on the Hours of Labor, Delivered Before the Labor Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature by [Labor]: McNeill, George E.

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Title: Argument on the Hours of Labor, Delivered Before the Labor Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature
Author: [Labor]: McNeill, George E.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: New York: Labor Standard Publishing, 1877. Good.. 20pp. Disbound, lacking wrappers. Trimmed closely along fore-edge occasionally touching text, light occasional foxing. A scarce pamphlet on American labor practices in the late-1870s, and an early work by George E. McNeill, a millworker and noted labor leader. George E. McNeill (1836-1906) was born and raised then later died in Massachusetts after a long career as a staunch advocate for improving labor conditions. In Boston, he served as the president of the Great Eight Hour League, founded the Working Men's Institute, worked with labor newspapers in Massachusetts and New York, among his many activities in support of organized labor. The present work is one of McNeill's earliest publications, and devoted to the issue of a ten-hour work day for laborers in Massachusetts. McNeill provides a history of the effort for the ten-hour day, as well as detailed chapters with cogent arguments on the "reasons for a reduction of the hours of labor," its (positive) impact on production, a section addressing a reduction in wages, and a long final chapter on "Non-interference or Freedom of Contract." The imprint from the Labor Standard Publishing likely refers to the printing offices of the New York Labor Standard newspaper, one of many labor-related publications for which McNeill worked during his career. McNeill was most famous in his own time and for some time afterwards for his monumental 1892 work, The Labor Movement, or, The Problem of To-Day. Eight copies in OCLC.

An inquiry into the nature and treatment of gravel, calculus, and other diseases... by PROUT, William

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Title: An inquiry into the nature and treatment of gravel, calculus, and other diseases...
Author: PROUT, William
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: Towar & Hogan, 1826. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With folding coloured frontispiece. Full calf; interior browned and dampstained. First American edition with notes and additions by Samuel Colhoun (1787-1841), dean of Jefferson Medical College. This important work is revised and expanded with further notes and observations on diseases of the kidneys, bladder and stomach, as well as metabolic disorders and diabetes.

The Red Hills by Davies, Rhys

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Title: The Red Hills
Author: Davies, Rhys
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London and New York: Putnam, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. . 8vo., 250pp. Sharp First Edition of the author's fourth book. Bound in blue cloth with lettering in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout save some moderate off-setting to end-papers. Very mild wear to spine ends and tips. Some puckering to cloth on front board by the hinge and one area of the fore-edge. Very active unclipped dust jacket, (7/6 net), Has some minor wear to edges and tips. Toned spine and edges. A few scattered spots. has very mild edge-wear. Spine toning. Still solid and complete with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.

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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Title: 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.

A Manual of Fish-Culture. by U.S. Fish Commission.

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Title: A Manual of Fish-Culture.
Author: U.S. Fish Commission.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: A wonderful source, detailing technologies which have not, for the most part, been substantially improved in this century. Fresh
Description: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. A wonderful source, detailing technologies which have not, for the most part, been substantially improved in this century. Fresh and salt water fish, oysters, etc. Abundantly illustrated, with a handsome color lithograph of a brook trout as frontispiece. Bound in original cloth, binding a bit loose.. 23 cm. Color frontispiece. b/w plates, some folding. x, (2), 340 pp.

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

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Title: Josh Smith: Hidden Darts Reader
Author: SMITH, Josh (artist); Achim HOCHDÖRFER
Seller: 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).

MAINSPRINGS OF MEN [signed] by Williams, Whiting, 1878-

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Title: MAINSPRINGS OF MEN [signed]
Author: Williams, Whiting, 1878-
Seller: 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 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.

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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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