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Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers

Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers by CONSTANT Samuel Victor

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
Author
CONSTANT Samuel Victor
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1935. First Edition. CONSTANT, Samuel Victor. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. [Peking: Camel Bell, circa 1935]. Oblong octavo, original side-stitched silk cloth, orange paper cover label, mottled endpapers, French-folded leaves. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4500.First edition of this unusual documentation of Peking street-vendors, their instruments and their calls, illustrated with 61 color-printed lithographs, mounted paper cut-out and 16 mounted halftone photographs.In China, a system of peddling grew up to bring goods to them, each peddler announcing his presence by a distinctive call. In partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts from the California College in China, Samuel Constant documented these peddlers' calls and the callers themselves. ""Some call out their wares in a musical voice or song calculated to please the hearer. Others have a loud or discordant cry which grates on the nerves as though the devil himself had something to sell."" The color-printed lithographs are all two-paneled with the image of the peddler in one and either the musical instrument he used to accompany his call or the wares he sold in the other. The halftone photographs depict actual street-scenes and peddler ""performances."" Early issue, with original imprint inked over and ""The Peking Bookshop / Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits / Peking"" printed in ink on title page, and with Peking Bookshop label on rear pastedown. Occasional light foxing, fragile original boards with only light wear to edges. A near-fine copy.
A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS

A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS by (BINDINGS - CHIVERS). SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Title
A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS
Author
(BINDINGS - CHIVERS). SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Second Edition. 185 x 123mm. (7 1/4 x 5"). ix, [1], 213, [1] pp., [1] leaf. A VERY PLEASING VELLUCENT BINDING BY CEDRIC CHIVERS (signed on rear turn-in), front cover and smooth spine painted in an Art Nouveau style featuring twining vines, center panel of front cover with painted gilt-strung lyre at bottom and round mother-of-pearl inlay within a wreath at top, doublures of glazed vellum enclosed by a paper frame, all edges gilt. Printer's device on final leaf. Binding with a touch of soil, spine just a shade darker than the covers, a few very minor spots internally, otherwise a fine, virtually unworn copy. This is a charming example of Chivers' "vellucent" bindings, a painting-under-vellum technique inspired by Cyril Davenport's lecture on the 18th century painted vellum bindings of Edwards of Halifax, given at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. On returning to England after his life-changing visit to the exposition, Chivers (1853-1929) established binding premises in his native Bath and began producing his own work in the Edwards tradition, calling his new style "vellucent" as its chief component was translucent vellum. After rendering vellum nearly transparent, Chivers placed it over paper on which a design had been painted, thus protecting the surface of the paper and the artwork from soiling and abrasion. Prideaux says that the process achieves the effect of enriched enamel. Chivers often used mother-of-pearl inlays on his vellucent bindings, and here the inlay provides the illusion of a mirror that might reflect the reader of the volume. The title poem here was inspired by another trip to France: in 1855, Swinburne (1837-1909) made his first trip abroad with his uncle. As they were crossing the English Channel, a violent storm thrilled the young poet with its awe-inspiring display of lightning and thunder. It was an unforgettable experience that stuck with Swinburne all his life--the poem recalling that crossing was written 40 years after the event, just five years before his death..
The Union Club Mysteries (INSCRIBED)

The Union Club Mysteries (INSCRIBED) by Asimov, Isaac

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Title
The Union Club Mysteries (INSCRIBED)
Author
Asimov, Isaac
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/About Fine. Octavo. octavo, 214 pages; INSCRIBED by the author on title page: "To Arthur / Isaac Asimov / 22 Oct 83" - inscription is to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson. First edition, stated. Dust jacket with price of $13.95 on front flap. Mr. Parson's name and date on ffep.
Seasons

Seasons by Bennett, Edith Wilson

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Title
Seasons
Author
Bennett, Edith Wilson
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good+ in Fair dj
Description
New York/Paris: Empire Books. Very Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear to book, top edge of text block a bit dust-soiled, small bookseller's rubber stamp at bottom corner of front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); jacket is worn and moderately soiled, with a small ragged chip at right side of top edge, and a large-ish chunk torn out of the rear panel (unfortunately taking quite a bit of the rear-jacket text with it)]. (color drawings) A curious piece of juvenile (I guess) fiction, about a little boy named Billy, who is seven years old when America enters World War I. (At least that's what the jacket blurb says; the book itself doesn't seem to pin him down to a particular age, and in any case the story begins a couple of years earlier than that, after the war has broken out but long before the direct participation of the U.S. Let's just say that the book plays more than a little bit fast and loose with historical chronology; for instance, an entire chapter is devoted to the reaction of Billy and his family to the sinking of the Lusitania, with the clear implication that this event propelled America into the war almost immediately.) Whatever his age, Billy is positively obsessed with the war: he talks about it all the time, has a dream about the "War Giant" coming to ravage America, and is desperate to participate in some way (his mother has given him a soldier suit, so in his mind he's practically enlisted already); this reaches its apotheosis when he actually runs away from home, intending to make his way to France and present himself as a mascot to General Pershing. (He only gets as far as New York before a kindly policeman waylays him and delivers him back home.) He also expresses a lot of concern about the plight of children in war-torn France, but is comforted somewhat by the occasional cheery letter from his father, who actually is Over There (although in exactly what capacity is never made clear) and assures Billy that the children "are being taken care of splendidly." According to the jacket blurb, Billy is "the same lovable boy he was in 'The Little Boy Who Wouldn't Undo His Own Shoes' and other Billy books -- but the "other books" part appears to be a bit of a fib, as the "Shoes" book and this one are the only two titles by this author that I can find any trace of, at least in OCLC. (And even there the traces are faint: just three copies of the present book and only a single copy of its predecessor, published in 1926.) The illustrator, Texas-born Tom Smith Roots, is somewhat less obscure, his work having appeared in Western pulp magazines during the 1930s and Western comic books during the 1960s. .
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Talking to Myself by BAILEY, Pearl

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Title
Talking to Myself
Author
BAILEY, Pearl
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Original boards. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Inscribed on title-page "To dear Doug -- a rare man -- all love, Pearl. Teacher to scholar / scholar to pupil / we all learn."
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The Invisible World is in Decline by Whiteman, Bruce

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Title
The Invisible World is in Decline
Author
Whiteman, Bruce
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Toronto: Coach House Press, [1984] First edition (no hardcover issue). Pictorial wrappers. Octavo. A little soiling to covers. Very good+.
Mamba -- Anfang in Afrika

Mamba -- Anfang in Afrika by ALTHAUS, Gerhard; Hans Ludwig Althaus, ed

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Mamba -- Anfang in Afrika
Author
ALTHAUS, Gerhard; Hans Ludwig Althaus, ed
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Erlangen: Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 103pp.; two color plates, including folding map, text illus. throughout. Light dust-soil, else About Fine. Posthumously published account of the German pastor's missionary work in Mamba, Tanzania, perhaps published by the author's son to offset his father's role in the Third Reich. Text entirely in German.
Walt Whitman; the making of the Poet
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Walt Whitman; the making of the Poet by Zweig, Paul

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Walt Whitman; the making of the Poet
Author
Zweig, Paul
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780465090594
Description
New York: Basic Books, 1984. xi, 372p., dj.

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