Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $35,090.00
Shipping: $77.49
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $35,167.49
1 - 6 days
1 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Please select your payment method from the following list:
Click the button to checkout with PayPal.
You will be charged $35,167.49 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $35,090.00
Shipping: $77.49
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $35,167.49

You are about to purchase:

Su Wen gong wen chao 蘇文公文鈔 or Song da jia Su Wen gong wen chao 宋大家蘇文公文鈔 [Copied Writings of the Lettered Mr. Su]

Su Wen gong wen chao 蘇文公文鈔 or Song da jia Su Wen gong wen chao 宋大家蘇文公文鈔 [Copied Writings of the Lettered Mr. Su] by SU, Xun 蘇洵

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $20.00
Details
$18,500.00
( US$)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Su Wen gong wen chao 蘇文公文鈔 or Song da jia Su Wen gong wen chao 宋大家蘇文公文鈔 [Copied Writings of the Lettered Mr. Su]
Author
SU, Xun 蘇洵
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
102; 101 folding leaves. Ten juan in two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. [China]: after 1579-1620. A rare Ming dynasty edition, printed on fine paper, of this collection of texts by the Northern Song essayist Su Xun 蘇洵 (1009-66 CE), compiled and edited by Mao Kun 茅坤 (1512-1601), of Guian (present-day Wuxing, Zhejiang). Su Xun was the father of the even more famous writers Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101) and Su Zhe 蘇轍 (1039-1112). All three count among the so-called Eight Masters of the Tang and Song, a grouping that Mao Kun’s edition elevated. Mao had an official career, but left office having been victim of a smear campaign and then devoted last 50 years of his life to scholarly pursuits. In contrast to some of his contemporaries, who sought to emulate the prose style of antiquity, Mao championed the literary prose of the Tang and Song periods. To this end, he compiled a collectanea entitled Tang-Song ba da jia wenchao 唐宋八大家文鈔 [Copied Writings of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song], of which our volumes are part (Vols. 13 and 14). The idea of the Eight Masters — the history of which predates Mao but was firmly established by means of his collection — had a lasting impact on the historiography of Chinese literature and continues to hold currency today. There are four recensions of Copied Writings of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song: 1) The 1579 (Wanli 7) edition, collated and published by Mao Kun’s nephew Mao Yigui 茅一桂; 2) the 1628 (Chongzhen 1) edition, published by Fang Yingxiang 方應祥; 3) the 1631 (Chongzhen 4) edition, published by Mao Zhu 茅著; 4) the Complete Library of the Four Repositories [Siku quanshu] manuscripts, produced at the Qianlong court in the late 1770s-early 1780s, which used an edition of the third recension as its base text. This suggests that recension three was the most widely circulating by the 18th century. There were two printings of the first recension: Mao Yigui’s first printing of 1579 and a revised edition printed from the same blocks that were mended for the occasion. Our edition appears to belong to the first recension; it is unclear whether it belongs to the first edition of the first recension or to the revised edition. Only a careful comparison, character by character, of our copy with another copy of the first printing would allow us to make a definitive statement. This second printing was also produced in the Wanli period (1572-1620), but year is not known. When Fang Yingxiang produced the edition of the second recension, he used Mao Kun’s holograph along with Mao Yigui’s second, revised edition. Therefore it must date before 1628. The “introduction” (yin 引) carries the note “Collated and printed by Mao Yigui, nephew” 姪茅一桂校刊. Furthermore, the centerfold on the first folio says “Carved by Fu Ruguang” (“Fu Ruguang ke” 傅汝光刻). Fu is known to have been active as a woodblock carver in the Wanli period, and his participation in the publication of Copied Writings of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song is documented. Nice fresh set, preserved in a hantao. Some worming to wrappers and to first and final leaves in each volume. A full report is available upon request. References Fu Jing 付琼, “Tang-Song ba da jia wenchao Fang Yingxiang ben fafu” 《唐宋八大家文抄》方应祥本发覆 in Zhongguo gudai sanwen yanjiu wenxian luncong 中国古代散文研究文献论丛, ed. Guo Yingde 郭英德. Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2016. Qu Mianliang, ed., Zhongguo guji banke cidian 中国古籍版刻辞典. Jinan: Qi-Lu shushe, 1999.
Kokon tōa shifu 古今東亞紙譜 [A Collection of East Asian Paper Samples from Ancient to Modern Times]

Kokon tōa shifu 古今東亞紙譜 [A Collection of East Asian Paper Samples from Ancient to Modern Times] by SEKI, Yoshikuni 関義城

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: FREE
Details
$15,000.00
( US$)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Kokon tōa shifu 古今東亞紙譜 [A Collection of East Asian Paper Samples from Ancient to Modern Times]
Author
SEKI, Yoshikuni 関義城
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Hundreds of paper samples tipped-in & several text illus. 141; 121 pp. on folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, woodcut title-slip on first vol. (lacking on Vol. II), orig. stitching. [Tokyo: Privately Printed], Prefaces dated 1957. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, luxuriously printed throughout on handmade paper, of this magnificent and rare paper specimen work. Seki (1892-1979), an executive at a Japanese paper company, was a leading historian of Asian papermaking. These two volumes contain paper samples — both examples of early printing as well as paper specimens — from China, Korea, Mongolia, Tibet, Burma, and Japan, dating from the Tang dynasty to modern times. Each sample is carefully described in the accompanying printed text. The author has also provided much text on the history of papermaking in East Asia with descriptions of papermaking techniques. With an excellent index. Fine set in the original chitsu.
Inventaire des Objets ayant appartenu à une Femme de Bois-Colombes

Inventaire des Objets ayant appartenu à une Femme de Bois-Colombes by BOLTANSKI, Christian

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: FREE
Details
$550.00
( US$)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Inventaire des Objets ayant appartenu à une Femme de Bois-Colombes
Author
BOLTANSKI, Christian
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
310 black & white illus., on rectos only. [24] leaves. 8vo (210 x 141 mm.), orig. semi-stiff printed wrappers, perfect-bound. Paris: CNAC, 1974. First edition, an excellent copy of Boltanski’s fifth inventory, documenting all the earthly possessions of a randomly selected person, this time a resident from Bois-Colombes, a suburb of Paris. This book was published for an exhibition (15 October to 2 December 1974) at the Centre national d’art contemporain. Earlier versions of this piece took place in Baden-Baden, Jerusalem, Oxford, and Copenhagen. Boltanski explains the intention of this work in the Avant-Propos (in trans.): “The inventory of objects belonging to a woman from Bois-Colombes is the fifth project of this type that I have created. In its formulation it follows the same rule as the previous projects: to present, without any selection on my part, every item belonging to a randomly chosen person in the city or town where an event is taking place.” In fine condition. ❧ J. Flay, ed., Christian Boltanski, Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991 (1992), pp. 106-9. A. Moeglin-Delcroix, Esthétique du Livre d’artiste: Introduction à l’art contemporain (2nd ed.: 2012), p. 213.
Ariel

Ariel by PLATH, Sylvia, Robert LOWELL, introduction

2 to 8 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $10.00
Details
$300.00
( US$)
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Title
Ariel
Author
PLATH, Sylvia, Robert LOWELL, introduction
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Cloth. Fine/very good. First edition. 8vo; xi [iii], 85pp; lavender ink stamped black cloth over board with publisher's colophon to front cover, author, title, and publisher to spine; fore-edge untrimmed; unclipped dust jacket with price of $4.95, light chipping to corners and head and tail of spine, light stain to rear; fine in very good plus dj.
Poems [2 Vols]

Poems [2 Vols] by Carman, Bliss

2 to 8 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: FREE
Details
$205.00
( US$)
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
Poems [2 Vols]
Author
Carman, Bliss
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited De Luxe Edition of 500 copies signed by Carman. Very Good. Grey paper on the boards, some scuffing, pushed and with a tear at the heads of the spines, brown spine labels with some scuffs. Square and firmly bound, bookplate inside the front boards, foxed on the preliminaries, clean otherwise. These two volumes represent the complete work of Carman's poetic output, including "Low Tide on Grand Pre" which has been called one of the best poems to come out of Canada.
ABC De Mis Juguetes (ABC of My Toys)

ABC De Mis Juguetes (ABC of My Toys) by ABC.

2 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $7.50
Details
$150.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Title
ABC De Mis Juguetes (ABC of My Toys)
Author
ABC.
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Barcelona: Imprenta Elzeviriana y Libreria Cami, 1940 Circa 1940s. Pictorial paper covers, a few faint spots of foxing, some pages opened roughly. Alternating pages of Spanish text and an illustrated alphabet. Unlike most ABC books, the letters are not arranged from A to Z. Printed entirely in color. Uncommon.. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Marti Fernandez Collado. 4to.
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet by Berryman, John; Ben Shahn [Illustrator]

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: FREE
Details
$100.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Title
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Author
Berryman, John; Ben Shahn [Illustrator]
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition. 57, [5] pp. Illustrated boards. Near Fine with slight toning to boards, light shelf wear, in an unclipped dust jacket with toning along top of front panel, wear along spine, which is a little dulled, Very Good+. A nice copy of the acclaimed long poem by the American Confessional poet.
No image available

KARL APPEL, THE COMPLETE SCULPTURES, 1936-1990. by Visser, H. de & R. Hagenberg, eds.

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $6.00
Details
$85.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books
Title
KARL APPEL, THE COMPLETE SCULPTURES, 1936-1990.
Author
Visser, H. de & R. Hagenberg, eds.
Seller
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Lafayette, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Stiff wraps with cutout on front cover. Well illus.
Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln's Most Interesting Lawsuit

Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln's Most Interesting Lawsuit by Townsend, William H.

1 to 8 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $11.00
Details
$65.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd
Title
Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln's Most Interesting Lawsuit
Author
Townsend, William H.
Seller
The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
ISBN
9781584778301
Description
2008. ISBN-13: 9781584778301; ISBN-10: 158477830X. A Suit Against Abraham Lincoln Townsend, William H. Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln's Most Interesting Lawsuit. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. vii, [1] p., 2 l., 3-40, [1] p. front., facsims. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778301. ISBN-10: 158477830X. Cloth. New. $65. * Reprint of the sole edition. The facsimiles here given are taken from the records of the Fayette Circuit Court and from letters of Abraham Lincoln. A petition was filed in the Fayette Circuit Court, Lexington, Ky., May, 1853, by Edward Oldham and Thomas Hemingway, surviving partners of Oldham, Todd & Company, claiming that Abraham Lincoln collected certain money, as their attorney, which was not paid over. Four depositions, constituting the proof for Lincoln, were filed in the Fayette Circuit Court, November 23, 1853, and so completely was the charge refuted that the plaintiffs on January 16, 1854, filed a motion to dismiss the case, which was done at their cost, February 10, 1854.
SPIN ½, BOOKS, PAINTINGS, AND MEMORABILIA BY JOHN ERIC BROADDUS

SPIN ½, BOOKS, PAINTINGS, AND MEMORABILIA BY JOHN ERIC BROADDUS

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $8.50
Details
$50.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press
Title
SPIN ½, BOOKS, PAINTINGS, AND MEMORABILIA BY JOHN ERIC BROADDUS
Seller
Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1990. brown paper wrappers, die cut pages, hand sewn, black paper envelope. Center for Book Arts. 4 x 6 inches. brown paper wrappers, die cut pages, hand sewn, black paper envelope. 16 pages. Limited to an edition of 400 numbered pamphlets. This catalogue, for an exhibit held June 7 to August 31, 1990 and curated by Ruth A. Ely, contains multi-colored silkscreen images on die cut pages with an introduction by Jan van der Wateren, Keeper and Chief Librarian of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Includes listings of works as well as listings of collectors of Broaddus.
Back to Blood

Back to Blood by Wolfe, Tom

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $5.99
Details
$50.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA
Title
Back to Blood
Author
Wolfe, Tom
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780316036313
Condition
Very good
Description
NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Signed by Wolfe on the title page.
No image available

RAMESES TO ROCKEFELLER by WHITAKER, Charles Harris

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $8.50
Details
$35.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd.
Title
RAMESES TO ROCKEFELLER
Author
WHITAKER, Charles Harris
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
WHITAKER, Charles Harris. RAMESES TO ROCKEFELLER. New York: Random House, (1934.) 4to. Cloth. First edition. Very good.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.