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A PICTURESQUE TOUR ALONG THE RHINE by GERNING, BARON JOHANN ISAAC VON

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: A PICTURESQUE TOUR ALONG THE RHINE
Author: GERNING, BARON JOHANN ISAAC VON
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: R. Ackermann, 1820. First Edition in English, First Issue. ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES. 422 x 324 mm. (16 5/8 x 12 3/4"). sheets 407 x 318 mm. (16 x 12 1/2"). xiv, [ii], 178 pp.Translated from the German by John Black. Excellent contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards by Charles Hering (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), newly rebacked and recornered to style by Courtland Benson, wide raised bands and panels attractively gilt in scrolling designs, gilt titling, all edges gilt. 24 HAND-COLORED PLATES OF THE RHINE (plus one folding map), taken from the drawings of Christian Georg Schütz and engraved by Sutherland, Havell, and Bartlett. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of "R G V"; front free endpaper with evidence of bookplate removal. Abbey, "Travel" I, 217; Tooley 234. ◆Offsetting onto tissue guards (indicating that they have done their job), one tissue guard missing (but no offsetting onto text in this case), isolated trivial thumbing, foxing, or rust spots, but A FINE AND ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE COPY, the beautifully restored binding unworn, the text and plates with only the most minor imperfections, and the margins of this special copy remarkably broad. This is one of Ackermann's major color plate books and apparently the first in his "Picturesque Tours" series, others of which explore the Seine, the Ganges, and the Thames. The book describes a trip down the Rhine on that part of the river generally considered most romantic and charming. The account contains not only topographical descriptions, but considerable historical information and details of popular traditions. The tone is frankly advocative, the book being written "with a view chiefly to the information of travellers of cultivated minds who may be induced to visit this interesting portion of Germany." The main appeal of the book for us today, of course, resides in its spacious and richly colored plates. The irresistibly scenic views seem to justify the book's claim that the region depicted is "a portion of heaven fallen down to earth." Our plates are early impressions, and, as in other contexts, size matters here: the sheets in our volume are 407 mm. tall, appreciably larger than most of the copies seen in auction records, which measure, on average, approximately 330 mm. (Abbey's untrimmed copy measured 425 mm., and a Large Paper Copy sold at Sotheby's in 2007 had sheets 402 mm. tall.) As the limitation would indicate, copies on Large Paper are very uncommonly seen, and our copy is beautiful, with especially well-preserved text and plates and an exceedingly handsome replica spine..

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: Naropa Lectures by BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

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Title: AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: Naropa Lectures
Author: BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Left margins a little ragged from being torn from a tablet; last page detached from staple. Near Fine
Description: August 1985. Manuscript. Left margins a little ragged from being torn from a tablet; last page detached from staple. Near Fine. A handwritten ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT titled "Naropa Lectures" by Baraka consisting of 21 pages on both sides of eleven 7-1/4" x 11-3/4" lined sheets stapled in the upper left corner. Baraka's notes for his lectures at Naropa where he taught at Naropas Jack Kerouac School during the late 1970s through the 1980s, introducing students to the Black Arts Movement, radical political poetry, and the importance of cultural inclusivity in literature and encouraging students to explore writing that was rooted in activism and cultural critique. These notes cover a wide expanse of Baraka's views on image, metaphor, rhythm, critical realism, the oral tradition, slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, American culture, African-American art and music, and more. Nearly all of the entries are short bursts of thought and not worked out in great detail, likely so that he could remind himself of topics to discuss while lecturing. The last line of the notes is telling: "Defeat Reagan, Preserve the Future!"

Nihon Gangu-shū 日本玩具集 [Japanese Toys], 3 vols by Takeda Shin’ichi 武田真一

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Title: Nihon Gangu-shū 日本玩具集 [Japanese Toys], 3 vols
Author: Takeda Shin’ichi 武田真一
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1917. Takeda Shin’ichi 武田真一. Nihon Gangu-shū 日本玩具集 [Japanese Toys], 3 vols. Taisho 6 [1917]. Two plate volumes 25 x 18cm are bound orihon (folding album) style with patterned paper over board covers, and centered, printed paper title labels. The first album is marked 天 Ten [Upper, “heaven”] and the second is marked 地 Chi [Lower, “earth”]. Decorated inner boards. There are eight pages of prefatory material followed by 78 color woodblock-printed images, some double page, depicting every sort of child's pastime from board games to hobby horses, card games to pinwheels. The 3rd text volume is 24.2 x 16.2cm string-bound Japanese style in green paper covers with a printed paper label. This volume contains the explanatory Japanese text describing the images in the first two volumes. 14 cho total; the initial 2 cho are an index with the titles of all 78 plates and the remaining pages list the plates accompanied by a small description of each. Two small chips on the first two cho edges. Inside rear cover has a pasted down slip with printed Japanese text and a red hanko next to it. Some dirt staining to covers. Each volume has a small rectangular sticker in the lower right front cover with the number ‘190,’ ‘191’ or ‘192’ on the front cover with the book title in Japanese handwriting. Split cho in Vol 1. Foxing to some pages. Artwork in very good condition, complete. A well-printed and colorful overview of traditional toys in Japan.

Kōzan Kafu 高山花譜 by Takeda Hisayoshi 武田久吉, author & Funazaki Kōjirō 船崎光治郎, artist

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Title: Kōzan Kafu 高山花譜
Author: Takeda Hisayoshi 武田久吉, author & Funazaki Kōjirō 船崎光治郎, artist
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1947. Takeda Hisayoshi 武田久吉, author & Funazaki Kōjirō 船崎光治郎, artist. Kōzan Kafu 高山花譜. Tokyo: Fugaku Honsha 富岳本社. Shōwa 22 昭和22 [1947]. 73 pages. Author and artist hanko are tipped-in to colophon. 28.5 x 20.5 cm, bound western-style (opens Japanese style) with a color, wrap-around woodblock-printed dust wrapper. In modern chitsu with clasps. Foreword by author and botanist Takeda Hisayoshi 武田久吉 (1883-1972) and afterword by artist Funazaki Kōjirō 船崎光治郎. Index with guide to plates with plant names in Latin and Japanese. The 33 laid-down color woodcut prints of mountain flowers by Funazaki enhance the text and its black and white halftones. They are in a sōsaku hanga 創作版画 (Creative Print Movement) style and are quite beautiful. It is obvious that this work was more than a botanical guide with its large format and lovely prints. It is remarkable that works like this were being published in 1946-7 in Japan, considering the extreme shortages, particularly of paper of any kind, never mind the high quality paper used in these publications. Fugaku Honsha 富岳本社, the Fugaku publishing company, was the same one which published Onchi Kōshirō’s 恩地孝四郎 Shinshō Fuji 新頌富士 and its office was right next to Onchi's home. Very scarce and interesting.

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker by Brautigan, Richard

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
Author: Brautigan, Richard
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Cranium Presss / Or, 1966. Second Edition. Softcover. Signed by Richard Brautigan on verso of front wrap, inscribed to writer Floyd Salas on his birthday (one day early, actually) in San Francisco, Jan. 23, 1971. Publisher's red printed wraps, hand-sewn string binding. Second Edition. Very Good, small stain to front wrap, a few more small stains to back wraps. Nice shape overall. A nice association between the singular Brautigan and a California novelist of Spanish and Native American ancestry best-known for his debut Tattoo the Wicked Cross.

FATES WORSE THAN DEATH by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Title: FATES WORSE THAN DEATH
Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Nottingham: Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1982. First edition. Printed stapled wraps. Foreword by Ken Coats. Signed & dated "March 25, 1997" by Vonnegut on the front wrap. 16pp pamphlet containing an address originally delivered at St. John the Devine Cathedral in NYC in '82 and donated by Vonnegut to the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation even though he didn't hold the copyright. Reproduces Vonnegut's letter to Coats explaining that the Cathedral owns the rights but "they wouldn't have the balls to sue." Fine copy. Vonnegut's signature slightly smeared. Vonnegut's fourth book of previously unpublished material.

MUSTANG SALLY by Allen, Edward

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Title: MUSTANG SALLY
Author: Allen, Edward
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780393034035
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: W.W.Norton, 1992. First edition, first prnt. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Allen's second novel. Basis for the 2003 Chris Lovenko directed film "Easy Six" with Julian Sands and Ruth Williamson. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The image is of the book described and not a stock photo.

Engraved Portrait by Clusius, Carolus

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Title: Engraved Portrait
Author: Clusius, Carolus
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Print: 150x118 mm. Mount: 170x141 mm. Mounted on paper. Edges trimmed, but otherwise in very good condition. From Boissard's Theatrum vitae humanae (1596).

Figurines et Reliefs en Terre Cuite de la Mésopotamie Antique: I, Potiers, Termes de Métier, Procédés de Fabrication et Production [INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D'ARCHÉOLOGIE DE BEYROUTH, BIBLIOTHÈQUE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE ET HISTORIQUE, T. LXXXV] by Barrelet, Marie-Thérèse

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Title: Figurines et Reliefs en Terre Cuite de la Mésopotamie Antique: I, Potiers, Termes de Métier, Procédés de Fabrication et Production [INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D'ARCHÉOLOGIE DE BEYROUTH, BIBLIOTHÈQUE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE ET HISTORIQUE, T. LXXXV]
Author: Barrelet, Marie-Thérèse
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: vg to fine
Description: Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1968. First edition. Softcover. vg to fine. Quarto (11 x 9"). [4], 538, [2]pp (Text), LXXXVIIIpp (Plates). Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. Illustrated with 88 photogravure plates, including 784 figures, this scholarly work on baked-clay figurines and low-relief plaques of ancient Mesopotamia represents the first volume of an illustrated catalogue of the collection of Mesopotamian terracottas in the Louvre. It is preceeded by two introductory chapters devoted to methods of manufacture and historical development. Minor shelf wear. Text in French. Wrappers in overall very good, interior in fine condition.

Travels and Discoveries in Abyssinia by Bruce, James

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Title: Travels and Discoveries in Abyssinia
Author: Bruce, James
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: London & Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. 1878. Hardcover. 8vo (8.25” x 5”), prize binding, later full blue morocco covers, gilt burgundy morocco title piece, gilt spine, five raised bands. Marbled edges. Frontis., 295 pp. Early prize inscription in ink at verso of ffep. Inkstamped signature of binder “Relfe Brothers, London” at verso of ffep. CONDITION: Good, spine rubbed, surface loss to head of spine, extremities with some wear, text fine. Inscription reads: “St. Anaph[?] Grammar School. Christmas, 1879. Prize given to A.P. Atkins for proficiency in Reading. W. Easterly B.A. LL.D. Head Master.”

Travels in Two Democracies by WILSON, Edmund

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Title: Travels in Two Democracies
Author: WILSON, Edmund
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in red and brown dust jacket, brown topstain; viii,325pp. Jacket spine a bit sunned, ends slightly rubbed, topstain rather mottled from a few dampspots and uneven fading. Still, Very Good overall. Wilson's study of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Some Records of the Friday Night Club by Crocker, George U.

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Title: Some Records of the Friday Night Club
Author: Crocker, George U.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Privately Printed [McGrath-Sherrill Press], 1917. 1/50. 72pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Tan boards with the title and emblem stamped in red on the front board. Better than very good. Fifty numbered copies of this work were printed, this is copy number 40 and was presented to Albert E. Pillsbury. ALS on Crocker Law Office letterhead to Pillsbury attached to the front pastedown. The Friday Night Club was a small group of members of the the University Club of Boston.

Eva Luna by Allende, Isabel

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Title: Eva Luna
Author: Allende, Isabel
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780689121029
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description: New York: Atheneum. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 0689121024 . A handsome first printing of the first Atheneum in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Isabel Allende directly on the dedication page. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden; Chilean-American novelist Allende's Eva Luna is an exotic dance that beguiles and entices. The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Ansel Adams: an Autobiography by Adams, Ansel with Mary Street Alinder

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Title: Ansel Adams: an Autobiography
Author: Adams, Ansel with Mary Street Alinder
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780821215968
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Second Printing. Cloth. 0821215965 . A second printing in Near Fine condition with some fading around the board edges. A gift inscription on the front free end paper in an alike dust-jacket with little soiling and edgewear, especially around the lower rear; Adams provides a self portrait of his own life of dedication, adventure, achievement, friendships and his art; 4to; 400 pages .

Eastern Argus. Portlamd, ME, Saturday October 25, 1862. Vol. LIX No. 43. : by [Civil War].

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Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints

Title: Eastern Argus. Portlamd, ME, Saturday October 25, 1862. Vol. LIX No. 43. :
Author: [Civil War].
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description: Folio newsprint, eight columns, 4 pp. Folds, some staining (a couple of dark stains), chips and tears in margins, a tear or two goes into print, but no losss of text, some soiling and aging, overall fair to good. Contains some coverage of the Civil War, including The Battle of Chambersburg, PA in October 1862.

The Upper Valley: An Illustrated Tour Along the Connecticut River Before The Twentieth Century by Wikoff, Jerold

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Title: The Upper Valley: An Illustrated Tour Along the Connecticut River Before The Twentieth Century
Author: Wikoff, Jerold
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chelsea VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. Nice clean copy (no names, inscriptions or bookplates) in sl worn, clipped dw.

Ueda's Daijiten. A Japanese Dictionary of Chinese Characters and Compounds

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Title: Ueda's Daijiten. A Japanese Dictionary of Chinese Characters and Compounds
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Harvard University Press, 1942. Good. Ueda's Daijiten. A Japanese Dictionary of Chinese Characters and Compounds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942. Thick 8vo. Black cloth. Book condition: Good with heavy bumping and rubbing to corners. Bottom left corner of rear cover is jammed. Previous owner's military ink stamp on title page, which is creased. Previous owner's name in pen on front pastedown.

God of My Victory. The Ancient Hymn in Habakkuk 3 by Hiebert, Theodore

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Title: God of My Victory. The Ancient Hymn in Habakkuk 3
Author: Hiebert, Theodore
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (United States)
Description: Atlanta, GA(1986(: Scholars Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. 205pp. A scholarly translation of the Habakkuk Corpse. Bound in maroon cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy with previous owner's name Michael A. Riley.

My Shining Archipelago. by ANSEL, Talvikki.

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Title: My Shining Archipelago.
Author: ANSEL, Talvikki.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: New Haven & London: Yale University Press , (1997).. Uncorrected proof.. 56 pp. Fine in printed light blue wrappers. A volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Foreword by James Dickey.

THE SMELL OF SLAUGHTER by KENNY, Maurice

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Title: THE SMELL OF SLAUGHTER
Author: KENNY, Maurice
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: Marvin, SD: Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1982. First Edition. Near fine.. First edition of this handsomely printed collection of verse from this Midwest poet. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. A bit of rubbing along spine, else about fine overall. Clean, bright, and crisp throughout. [24] pp.

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