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ISE MONOGATARI 伊勢物語 [Tale of Ise]

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Title: ISE MONOGATARI 伊勢物語 [Tale of Ise]
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Finely illustrated manuscript of Tale of Ise on smooth & thick torinoko paper with 30 full-page & one double-page paintings, employing sumi ink, various washes, sprinkled gold, & gold paint. Leaves of text underpainted in gold with delicate floral devices. Written throughout in a fine calligraphic cursive hand. 34; 35; 33 leaves. Three vols. Small 4to (234 x 171 mm.), retchoso binding, orig. gold & blue-green silk brocade over semi-stiff wrappers, gold endpapers, gold-patterned manuscript labels on upper cover. [Japan]: early to mid-Edo. A very beautifully illustrated manuscript of Tale of Ise, one of the earliest and most famous literary classics of Japan, a collection of some 125 prose tales with the addition of 209 waka poems and based on the adventures and amorous exploits of the Heian courtier-poet Ariwara Narihira 在原業平 (825-80). The “‘young man’ of the Ise Monogatari episodes apparently is the prototype of the consummate courtier-lover of the Heian period: handsome, sensitive, fashionable, and skilled in the arts, especially in composing poetry. His love-affairs are with women of varying ages and from different levels of society, so it is not surprising that these tales were a popular subject for narrative illustrations from the Heian period on.”–Miyeko Murase, Tales of Japan. Scrolls and Prints from The New York Public Library (Oxford: 1986), p. 81. Our manuscript is very finely illustrated with one double-page and 30 full-page paintings, using the black ink lines of hakubyō 白描 (literally “white drawing” or monochrome) in the Chinese style, with the addition of delicate ink washes in various grays of sumi ink; subtle shades of red, pink, and blue; and the ample use of gold mist and paint. Our manuscript reveals the blending of the hakubyō style of the Kamakura period with the coloring of the yamato-e やまと絵 (Japanese style of painting). The leaves of text were first decorated with many underpaintings of floral devices in gold before the calligrapher set to work with his brush. In very fine condition, preserved in a box within box. ❧ Earl Miner et al., The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature (1985), p. 170–“The Ise Monogatari was recognized with the Genji Monogatari by the renga masters as one of the two classics of monogatari literature central to their art…The legacy of the work is broader still in some respects — not as a cause or influence so much as a major early exemplar of much that is most characteristic in Japanese literature…It is, finally a work extraordinarily rich in half-hidden detail. The attentive folklorist, psychologist, and historian reap rewards akin to those of the poet and novelist as readers…the student of Japanese literature will find the Ise Monogatori one of the most surprisingly rich, as also richly surprising works of all classical literature.”.

TEXT FROM THE END OF THE COMMENTARY ON NUMBERS AND THE OPENING OF THE PROLOGUE FOR THE COMMENTARY ON DEUTERONOMY by A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM PETRUS RIGA'S "AURORA.

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Title: TEXT FROM THE END OF THE COMMENTARY ON NUMBERS AND THE OPENING OF THE PROLOGUE FOR THE COMMENTARY ON DEUTERONOMY
Author: A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM PETRUS RIGA'S "AURORA.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: England, first half of 13th century. 235 x 117 mm. (9 1/4 x 4 1/2"). Single column, 49-50 lines in a gothic hand. Rubrics in dark brown ink, three two-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, one four-line puzzle initial in red and blue, with red and blue penwork decorations and long marginal extenders. With a few contemporary corrections in a different hand, verso with scant remnants of mounting tape. Gwara Handlist no. 7. ◆Top edge trimmed, cutting into the large initial's ascender, one corner cut away (not affecting text), a couple of wrinkles and a bit of soiling to vellum, but in excellent condition overall, quite clean and entirely legible. Noticeably different in appearance from the Medieval leaves more commonly encountered on the market (such as Books of Hours, Bibles, liturgical books, etc.), this leaf features a tall, thin "ledger" format and offset initials spaced slightly apart from the rest of the line. The text here comes from the "Aurora," a commentary on the Bible in verse form written in the late 12th century by French poet Petrus Riga (1140-1209), a canon of Rheims cathedral. Although little is known about the author's life, Riga's text became immensely popular throughout Europe and was routinely studied in Medieval universities. In fact, it is likely that the present leaf came from a manuscript intended for a student or academic, as its dimensions suggest it was made for easy transport and could even have been slipped into a pocket. In the 20th century, the parent manuscript was owned and dismembered by biblioclast Otto Ege, and leaves appeared as specimen no. 7 in his "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe, XII to XVI Century." Single leaves from this manuscript appear at auction very rarely. The last example we were able to track on RBH and ABPC sold at Bloomsbury in 2016 for an all-in price of £3,100..

World War II Civil Liberties Ansel Adams Born Free and Equal 1944 Photographs of Japanese Americans at Manzanar War Relocation Center by Ansel Adams

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Title: World War II Civil Liberties Ansel Adams Born Free and Equal 1944 Photographs of Japanese Americans at Manzanar War Relocation Center
Author: Ansel Adams
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1944. Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal published in 1944 presents a photographic record of Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California during World War II. Adams produced the work following visits to Manzanar in 1943 and 1944, when Japanese American families were confined under wartime relocation policies after the issuance of Executive Order 9066. The book documents daily life inside the camp and portrays individuals who had lost homes, businesses, and professions after forced removal from the West Coast. Adams framed the project as an effort to depict the civic loyalty and resilience of the incarcerated community while the war was still underway and anti Japanese sentiment remained widespread in the United States. Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans. New York: U.S. Camera, 1944. First edition, first printing. Adams undertook the project after being invited by Manzanar director Ralph Merritt to photograph life at the camp. The resulting images were later exhibited publicly and published in this volume. Adams described his intent directly in the book: "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment...All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document." The photographs portray residents of the camp in everyday activities and community roles, including families, nurses, students, farmers, and veterans such as Nobutero Harry Sumida, identified in the text as a Spanish American War veteran. The book also includes landscape images of the Owens Valley surrounding the camp. Adams's Manzanar photographs became part of a broader effort during the war to shape public perception of the incarceration of Japanese Americans, and the publication and exhibition of the images generated significant discussion because of the subject matter. The work remains one of the earliest extended photographic documentations of life within a wartime relocation center. Softcover volume measuring approximately 11 × 8 inches. 112 pages including 65 photographic illustrations. Stapled maroon wrappers with light green lettering. Minor half inch tear at the lower front spine and light handling wear; interior pages and photographic reproductions remain clean and bright. Very good condition overall and an important contemporary photographic record of Japanese American wartime incarceration.

[HAND-PAINTED ART-DECO DEPICTIONS OF PEOPLE FROM EXOTIC LANDS IN ORNAMENTAL COSTUMES]. A set of four paintings on paper, matted by [Unknown artist]

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Title: [HAND-PAINTED ART-DECO DEPICTIONS OF PEOPLE FROM EXOTIC LANDS IN ORNAMENTAL COSTUMES]. A set of four paintings on paper, matted
Author: [Unknown artist]
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: S.l.: s.n., 1980. Very good. A quantity of four paintings on paper, generally 370 x 280 mm each, hinged with cloth tape to mattes ca. 1980s (?). Some age toning, the painting of the Native American is slightly creased on the lower blank margin (SEE IMAGES). INTRIGUING COLLECTION OF FOUR STYLIZED PAINTINGS OF "EXOTIC" PEOPLES IN THE ART-DECO STYLE. The subjects are as follows: 1. African (bust) 2. Native American (full-length) 3. Persian or Mongol (full-length) 4. Indian (full-length). The painting for each subject has been delicately and exactingly rendered by an accomplished artist. This individual is unidentified; s/he may be for the 1930s or even as late as the 1980s, working in the Art-Deco style. MUST BE SEEN TO BE FULLY APPRECIATED.

The Booke of Common Prayer: And administration of the Sacraments: And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England

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Title: The Booke of Common Prayer: And administration of the Sacraments: And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Reddish-brown roan over bevelled boards tooled in blind, with contrasting gilt labels, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by Riviere. Ti
Description: London: Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and John Bill, printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1629. Title within woodcut border. Calendar printed in red and black. Text in two columns, with ornament sectional headpieces and initials. [100] pp. Signatures: A⁴ B-H⁶ I⁴. 1 vols. 4to. Reddish-brown roan over bevelled boards tooled in blind, with contrasting gilt labels, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by Riviere. Title leaf remargined at gutter, trimmed a bit close to top, elsewhere shaving to some of the occasional annotations. Title within woodcut border. Calendar printed in red and black. Text in two columns, with ornament sectional headpieces and initials. [100] pp. Signatures: A⁴ B-H⁶ I⁴. 1 vols. 4to. A decorative copy in late nineteenth century binding, with the tite leaf likely supplied from another copy. The state prayers mention both King Charles and Queen Mary, but no children; the royal couple's first heir, the future King Charles II, was born the following year (prayers for Prince Charles appear beginning 1632/3 editions). There is an early notation in Latin along the bottom margin of the title page, and occasional annotations in English appear in the margins, chiefly in the Psalms, cross references in the Pslams or notes on modern meanings. With the bookplate at front of Christopher Tower (1804-1884) and his wife, Lady Sophia Cust Tower (1811-1882), who was the daughter of the 1st Earl Brownlow and a noted watercolorist. ESTC S1276; Griffiths, 1629, 1; OCLC: 40382239. Provenance: J. Brown, 1747 (signature at head of title leaf); Christopher Tower and his wife, Lady Sophia Cust Tower (armorial bookplate); GTS bookplates

The Misfits (Original photograph of Marilyn Monroe on the set of the 1961 film) by Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift (starring); John Huston (director); Arthur Miller (screenwriter)

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Title: The Misfits (Original photograph of Marilyn Monroe on the set of the 1961 film)
Author: Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift (starring); John Huston (director); Arthur Miller (screenwriter)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the 1961 film, showing Marilyn Monroe and a camera crew on the set between takes. A bleak, haunting film exploring the loss of independence, about a recent divorcée who enters into an unstable relationship with an aging cowboy whom she meets in the Nevada desert. Shot on location in Reno and Dayton, Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned to the margins, with some wear to the finish at the top left corner, else about Near Fine.

TROTWOOD TRAILERS, RANGER THE AMERICAN FAMILY TRAILER by TROTWOOD TRAILERS

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Title: TROTWOOD TRAILERS, RANGER THE AMERICAN FAMILY TRAILER
Author: TROTWOOD TRAILERS
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: (AUTOMOBILE TRADE CATALOGUE - MOTOR TRAILERS) TROTWOOD TRAILERS. TROTWOOD TRAILERS, RANGER THE AMERICAN FAMILY TRAILER. Trotwood, Ohio: (circa 1930). 8vo. Four loose sheets of text, (150 pages of drawings and plans, one promotional flyer. Scarce item not identified on OCLC.

THE NEWCOMES. MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY EDITED BY ARTHER PENDENNIS ESQ by THACKERAY, William M

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Title: THE NEWCOMES. MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY EDITED BY ARTHER PENDENNIS ESQ
Author: THACKERAY, William M
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Small university bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, otherwise Fine in a Near Fine slipcase
Description: New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. The Centenary Edition. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, otherwise Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Edward Ardizzone. Two quarto volumes (6-3/4" x 10") bound in cloth-backed pictorial buckram. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. With hand-colored illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

You Who Have Dreams [Limited Edition] by Maxwell Anderson

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Title: You Who Have Dreams [Limited Edition]
Author: Maxwell Anderson
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Simon & Schuster Publishers, 1925. Near Fine/Good +. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1925. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 323. Slim octavo; publisher's boards, printed paper labels to front cover and spine, in cream pictorial dust jacket; 71pp. Dust jacket significantly restored and subsequently rather cockled and rough to the touch, boards very slightly rubbed at corners, else a Near Fine copy in a Good to Very Good, aggressively touched-up copy of the rare dust jacket. The author and playwright's first book, a collection of poems. Anderson went on to be awarded the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Both Your Houses.

Enhancing Humanity: The Philosophical Foundations of Humanistic Education by Aloni, Nimrod

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Title: Enhancing Humanity: The Philosophical Foundations of Humanistic Education
Author: Aloni, Nimrod
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781402009617
Condition: Very good
Description: Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiii, 229pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Jean PaulSartre's Nausea, Roquentin feels bound to listen to the sentimental ramblings about humanism and humanity by the Self Taught Man. "Is it my fault," muses Roquentin, "in all he tells me, I recognize the lack of the genuine article? Is it my fault if, as he speaks, I see all the humanists I have known rise up? I have known so many ofthem!" And then he lists the radical humanist, the so called"left" humanist, and Communist Humanist, the Catholic humanist, all claiming a passion for their fellow men. "But there are others, a swarm of others: the humanist philosopher who bends over his brothers like a wise older brother with a sense of his responsibility; the humanist who loves men as they are, the humanist who loves men as they ought to be, the one who wants to save them with their consent, and the one who will save them in spite of themselves. . . . " Quite naturally, the skeptical Roquentin ends by saying how "they all hate each other: as individuals, not as men. " Fully aware of the misuse and false comfort in the use of the term, Professor Aloni proceeds to restore meaning to the word as well as appropriate its educational significance. There is a freshness in this book, a restoration of a lost clarity, a regaining of authentic commitment.(Publisher).

THOMAS EAKINS: A Retrospective Exhibition. Oct.-Nov. 1961. Text by Lloyd Goodrich. by Washington. National Gallery of Art.

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Title: THOMAS EAKINS: A Retrospective Exhibition. Oct.-Nov. 1961. Text by Lloyd Goodrich.
Author: Washington. National Gallery of Art.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Washington, 1961.. 131pp. 96 plates. 4to. Wraps. The exhibition subsequently traveled to two additional venues. Small stains on title page.

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A Little Princess by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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Title: A Little Princess
Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9781566197151
Condition: Very Good
Description: Barnes and Noble, 1995. Very Good. Burnett, Frances Hodgson. A Little Princess. NY: Barnes and Noble, 1995. 243pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Very good.. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Previous retailer's price sticker on front panel..

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