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An early and monumental wooden double-sided kanban (shop signboard) of the “Odagiri” pharmaceutical company, advertising its throat medicine “Kaden Kintokutan” (“Family Recipe passed down Golden Virtue Pills”)

An early and monumental wooden double-sided kanban (shop signboard) of the “Odagiri” pharmaceutical company, advertising its throat medicine “Kaden Kintokutan” (“Family Recipe passed down Golden Virtue Pills”) by KANBAN: PHARMACEUTICAL STORE SIGNBOARD

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An early and monumental wooden double-sided kanban (shop signboard) of the “Odagiri” pharmaceutical company, advertising its throat medicine “Kaden Kintokutan” (“Family Recipe passed down Golden Virtue Pills”)
Author
KANBAN: PHARMACEUTICAL STORE SIGNBOARD
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Wooden board with thick frame (1360 x 650 x 70 mm.), orig. metalwork pieces on sides & corners, with orig. metal fittings on top to facilitate hanging perpendicularly outside the shop. Both sides carved with characters of the same text, one side artfully carved in sosho tai (a calligraphic cursive script), the other side finely carved in gyosho tai (a semi-cursive script), with furigana reading marks. Characters painted with black pigment & highlighted in gold lacquer. [Japan]: date of manufacture of the board is engraved on one of the cornerpieces (in trans.): “February 1804” by “kazarishi Kinjiro Kamiya” (“ornamental metalwork artisan Kinjiro Kamiya”) at the request of “Magobei Tsuneyuki Odagiri.” “Kanban, a distinctive fusion of art and commerce, refers to the traditional signs Japanese merchants and craftsmen displayed street-side to advertise their presence, denote the products or services found inside, and give individual identity and expression to the shop itself. Created from wood, bamboo, iron, paper, fabric, lacquer, or even stone, kanban form a rich visual vocabulary of traditional advertising… “The Japanese seem to have excelled at this early take on Madison Avenue, creating a multi-faceted inventory of symbol and meaning designed to engage the viewer and entice the customer. From a hand-carved sign made by the shopkeeper himself, hanging over the doorway to his modest shop in the smallest of back-country hamlets, to a sumptuous and professionally rendered virtuoso of a sign mounted atop a tall post in the booming capital city of Edo, kanban were an integral part of Japanese trade culture… “Kanban were also, in many instances, collaborative efforts between merchants and the craftsmen employed to create the signs…[The merchant] would have had to call on the services of a kanban-shi (kanban carver) or a kanban-gaki or mono-gaki, specialists in calligraphy for kanban. Or perhaps he would have engaged an on-gaku who specialized in carving frames and name signs. Together they would have arrived at the most effective way to communicate the desired message. The type of kanban and the degree of ornamentation would have depended on both the technical skills of the kanban-shi and the depth of the pockets of the merchant employing him.”–Alan Scott Pate, Kanban. Traditional Shop Signs of Japan (Mingei Museum & Princeton University Press: 2017), pp. 13 & 19-20. This is an unusually early, large, and monumental kanban, secured by a large and thick wooden frame and, unusually, decorated with metalwork around and on the frame. Much thought has gone into the design. On one side, the characters are carved in sosho tai (a calligraphic cursive script), which not all of the general public could read. Therefore, the other side of the board is carved in gyosho tai (a semi-cursive script), with furigana reading marks, to facilitate reading by all potential customers. The central text on both sides, in largest characters, visually screams “Tan no myoyaku” (“Miracle Medicine for Mucus Relief ”) as an attention-getter. In smaller characters, in the bottom left, we have “Chogosho Odagiri” (“Odagiri Pharmaceutical Company”), with what we believe is the trade name seal of Odagiri. In the upper right, again in smaller characters, we have “Kaden Kintokutan” (“Family Recipe passed down Golden Virtue Pills”). The medicine produced by the Odagiri Pharmaceutical Company, in pill form, was to reduce sputum in the throat and ease swallowing. Most kanban were made by anonymous artisans, and it is very unusual to have the metalwork signed, and dated as we have with this kanban. In fine condition.
Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same, With a Synopsis of All Grants and Sale of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City.

Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same, With a Synopsis of All Grants and Sale of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City. by WHEELER, Alfred.

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Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same, With a Synopsis of All Grants and Sale of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City.
Author
WHEELER, Alfred.
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
"One of the Foundation Books on California Land Titles" With the excessively scarce correct map of San Francisco. Small quarto.10½ x 7¼ inches. 127, [2]pp. Lithograph folding map on thin tissue. Original tan calf, marbled boards, paper label (green) on front cover. Covers a bit worn. Foxing throughout. Early ownership name and date on title. Bookplate. First signature detached. First edition. Scarce early San Francisco imprint, with the excessively scarce correct map of San Francisco entitled "Map of San Francisco, Compiled from latest Surveys & containing all late extensions & Division of Wards, published by Josiah J. Le Count, for Wheeler's Report on Land-Titles in San Francisco Cal." Cowan notes "The correct map was specially engraved for this work". Early San Francisco imprint which "includes all the grants made during the administration of the Mexican government in California to July 9, 1846. Also, all the grants by Alcaldes or those by official sales" (Greenwood 369). Also includes important Mexican and American Documents, relevant portions of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago, the Act for the admission of California as a state. With typed catalogue entry from John Howell-Books laid in. Cowan I: p.246, Cowan II: p.677, Greenwood: 369, Howes: W315, Norris: 4174, Rocq: 12799, Peters, California on Stone: p.103, Sabin: 103174, Streeter Sale: 2728. With the bookplate and signature of Alfred Sutro on the inside front cover. Alfred Sutro (1865-1945) was a San Francisco lawyer and book collector, highly involved with the Book Club of California.
Metamorphosis Through Light - Verwandlungen Durch Licht

Metamorphosis Through Light - Verwandlungen Durch Licht by LERSKI, Helmar

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Title
Metamorphosis Through Light - Verwandlungen Durch Licht
Author
LERSKI, Helmar
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9783923641000
Description
Germany: Luca Verlag, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Text in English and German. Edited by Ute Eskildsen and with a preface by Andor Kraszna-Krausz. A haunting collection of extreme close ups of faces. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Rather uncommon.
Deux

Deux by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

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Deux
Author
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Charleston, WV: The University of Charleston, Parchment Gallery Graphics. 1/200. Silkscreen [28 cm x 25 cm] Printed in black ink. Near fine. In printer's envelope with leaf of explanatory text. Signed and numbered by Ferlinghetti. Printed in an edition of 50 copies. A silkscreen reproduction of Ferlinghetti's first painting (oil on canvas, 1950) that was completed while a student at the Sorbonne. Rare. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-1921) was a poet, painter, book designer, publisher, bookseller, and graphic artist, who was an important leader in the American poetry revival in San Francisco in the 1950s.
The Chinese Children Next Door

The Chinese Children Next Door by BUCK, Pearl

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Title
The Chinese Children Next Door
Author
BUCK, Pearl
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 36 Essex Street, STrand W.C. 2, 1943. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Katharine TOZER. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Katharine TOZER, illustrator. Jas. Truscott & Son, Ltd., Printers, London E.C.3. First British edition. 8vo; 54pp; blue cloth over board, portrait of a Chinese girl dancing on front stamped in red and black, black lettering on front and spine; color pictorial endpapers; fp; 14full-page color illustrations; sunning of board bottom edges; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, chipping at head and tail of spine, scattered foxing; near fine in very good dj. Pearl Buck (1892-1973) was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, she spent much of her life before 1934 in China with her parents and then her first husband. This is a story of some of her girlhood playmates in China. In later life, she became a strong proponent of women's rights and racial equality.
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Tuscan Villas by ACTON, Harold

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Tuscan Villas
Author
ACTON, Harold
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
fine
Description
London: Thames and Hudsin, 1973. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated with 126 amazing b/w photogravure plates, plus 19 in-text figures and 34 in color, all by Alexander Zielcke. 288 pages. Thick 4to, terra cotta cloth, d.w. Thames and Hudson, (1973). First Edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
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GIMSON AND THE BARNSLEYS "WONDERFUL FURNITURE OF A COMMONPLACE KIND by Comino, Mary

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GIMSON AND THE BARNSLEYS "WONDERFUL FURNITURE OF A COMMONPLACE KIND
Author
Comino, Mary
Seller
Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
London: Evans Brothers Limited, (1980). First edition Octavo. This is a fine copy in dust wrapper, bound in saddle-tan paper over boards. A fascinating account of three artistically brilliant and unfailingly honest contributors to the British Arts and Crafts movement. These architects and artists were profoundly influenced by the work and philosophies of William Morris and were nurtured by the contemporary atmosphere of the Cotswolds. An inspiring and significant contribution to the study of the Movement.
Deutsche Sprachgeschichte; Grundlagen, Methoden, Perspektiven. Festschrift Für Johannes Erben Zum 65. Geburtstag
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Deutsche Sprachgeschichte; Grundlagen, Methoden, Perspektiven. Festschrift Für Johannes Erben Zum 65. Geburtstag

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Deutsche Sprachgeschichte; Grundlagen, Methoden, Perspektiven. Festschrift Für Johannes Erben Zum 65. Geburtstag
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9783631431825
Description
Frankfurt am Main, Etc.: Peter Lang, 1990. Herausgegeben von Werner Besch. 485p., front. port., original blue cloth. Contains essays by 43 scholars.
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Girls at War and Other Stories. by ACHEBE, Chinua.

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Girls at War and Other Stories.
Author
ACHEBE, Chinua.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
Garden City: Doubleday,, 1973.. First US edition.. 129 pp. Foxing to page edges, else near fine in very good dust jacket with stains along spine and extrems of rear panel.
Rood Screens
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Rood Screens by Hayman, Richard

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Rood Screens
Author
Hayman, Richard
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9781784422943
Condition
VG.
Description
Oxford: Shire Publications / Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. Softcover. VG.. Octavo. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 63 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. The rood screen was the visual focus of the medieval parish church, dividing the nave from the chancel. Most were built of wood and were adorned with intricate carved decoration painted in bright colors, often with images of saints. Defaced and often dismantled during the Reformation in the mid-sixteenth century, most surviving screens have been restored to their former glory since the nineteenth century and are now among the most prized treasures of our parish churches. This fully illustrated book explains the symbolic and practical significance of rood screens and describes the ways in which they were constructed and decorated. There is also an extensive list of churches in England and Wales where screens can be found.
The Volcano Lover

The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag

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Title
The Volcano Lover
Author
Susan Sontag
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780374285166
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/Stated First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only light age-spotting to the exterior text block. SIGNED by the author to the front free paper with provenance for the signing laid in (bookmark from the Kroch's & Brentano's First Editions Circle). An outstanding copy of this title, from the prolific and acclaimed Susan Sontag. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
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Records of English Court Music. Volume IX (Index) by ASHBEE, Andrew

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Title
Records of English Court Music. Volume IX (Index)
Author
ASHBEE, Andrew
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. Large octavo. Red boards. 238 pp.
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Birds and Their Nests

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Title
Birds and Their Nests
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
OH: Saalfield, 1943. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback, oversized, cover soiled, pages lightly browned, rubbed at spine ends and corners.
POETRY - Vol. 89 No. 6 - March 1957

POETRY - Vol. 89 No. 6 - March 1957 by Edited - Rene Char, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery (Contributors)

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Title
POETRY - Vol. 89 No. 6 - March 1957
Author
Edited - Rene Char, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery (Contributors)
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
(Chicago): (Modern Poetry Association), 1957. First Edition. Very good.. Features work by V.R. . Lang, Vernon Watkins, Hayden Carruth, James Wright, and others. Wraps. 12mo. Perfect-bound wraps. Very good plus with light toning and soil to wraps. Clean throughout.

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