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Chinese Poems by [Waley, Arthur]

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Title: Chinese Poems
Author: [Waley, Arthur]
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Printed by Lowe Bros, 1916. First edition. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched within a slate-grey paper wrapper (made from a Colnaghi catalogue cover), on which Waley has written in red the three Chinese characters "Ku Shih Chi". With some pencilled corrections of misprints in the author's hand. A fine copy, signed much later by Waley on the title page. Waley's rare first book, privately printed in an edition of about fifty copies, the existence of which was unknown to bibliography until 1962. There are, as far as we can tell, eleven extant copies, of which we can brag of having owned six. Johns A1.Waley's authentic and musical translations infused the stress-rhythms of Chinese poetic forms into English. His influence on later English poetry and scholarship was immense. But one must read this collection also as a product of its time and place,and the immediacy of the war and its effects. Rupert Brooke (who had died the previous year) had been a close friend of Waley's at Rugby and King's College, Cambridge, and Waley's brother David (who had been a classmate of Julian Grenfell, killed in 1915) enlisted in August 1916. Although damage to an eye made Waley unable to serve in the military, and his close, private nature, expressed little in the way of personal sentiment, the selection and order of texts give an insight into his thought. No fewer than a dozen of the poems included in "Chinese" Poems refer directly to war, from the first, Ch'ü Yüan's "Battle" (included in "The Oxford Book of War Poetry", ed. Stallworthy, 1984), to the last, Wang Chi's "On Coming to a Tavern" where Waley annotates the phrase "like drunkards," as "indulging in their idiotic war" (the very last words in the book). At the British Museum, where Waley began working in June 1913, shortly after its formation, he had the job of creating the first index of Chinese and Japanese painters; he immediately began to teach himself Chinese and Japanese, and within three years produced this volume of 52 translations, ten of which he included in his first published book, "A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems", published in 1918. "A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems" was cited by Cyril Connolly as one of the "100 Key Books in the Modern Movement". Pearsall Smith's name appears in Waley's list of 61 people who were candidates to receive copy of this volume, along with other writers: Eliot, Pound, Yeats, Bertrand Russell, Clive Bell. With the penciled signature of Robert Gathorne-Hardy who succeeded Cyril Connolly as Pearsall Smith's secretary/companion, and inherited his library. Jonathan Spence wrote of Waley's translations that he selected the jewels of Chinese and Japanese literature and pinned them quietly to his chest. No one ever did anything like it before, and no one will ever do it again. There are many westerners whose knowledge of Chinese or Japanese is greater than his, and there are perhaps a few who can handle both languages as well. But they are not poets, and those who are better poets than Waley do not know Chinese or Japanese. Also the shock will never be repeated, for most of the works that Waley chose to translate were largely unknown in the West, and their impact was thus all the more extraordinary.[8] His many translations include A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), Japanese Poetry: The Uta (1919), The No Plays of Japan (1921), The Tale of Genji (published in 6 volumes from 1921 to 1933), The Pillow Book of Sei Sh nagon (1928), The Kutune Shirka (1951), Monkey (1942, an abridged version of Journey to the West), The Poetry and Career of Li Po (1959) and The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Pieces (1964). Waley received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his translation of Monkey, and his translations of the classics, the Analects of Confucius and The Way and Its Power (Tao Te Ching), are still in print, as is his interpretive presentation of classical Chinese philosophy, Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China (1939). Waley's translations of verse are widely regarded as poems in their own right, and have been included in many anthologies such as the Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse and the Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918–1960) under Waley's name. Many of his original translations and commentaries have been re-published as Penguin Classics and Wordsworth Classics, reaching a wide readership. Despite translating many Chinese and Japanese classical texts into English, Waley never travelled to either country, or anywhere else in East Asia. In his preface to The Secret History of the Mongols he writes that he was not a master of many languages, but claims to have known Chinese and Japanese fairly well, a good deal of Ainu and Mongolian, and some Hebrew and Syriac. The composer Benjamin Britten set six translations from Waley's Chinese Poems (1946) for high voice and guitar in his song cycle Songs from the Chinese (1957) [Wikipedia].

Monday or Tuesday by Woolf, Virginia

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Title: Monday or Tuesday
Author: Woolf, Virginia
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. About Fine, in a price-clipped dust jacket. Bound in variant dark green cloth with paper label on spine [Kirkpatrick A5b]. Small patches of light wear to cloth at upper board. Book plate from previous owner on front paste down. Dust jacket shows light edge wear and toning to the spine panel. One of 1,500 copies.

The Farmer's Letters to the People of England: containing the Sentiments of a Practical Husbandman, on various subjects of great Importance: Particularly The Exportation of Corn. The Balance of Agriculture and Manufactures. The present State of Husbandry. The Circumstances attending large and small Farms. The present State of the Poor. The Prices of Provisions. The Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. The Importance of Timber and Planting. Emigrations to the Colonies. The Means of promoting the Agriculture and Population of Great Britain, &c. &c. To which are added, Sylvae: or, Occasional Tracts on Husbandry and Rural Oeconomics by [YOUNG, Arthur]

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Title: The Farmer's Letters to the People of England: containing the Sentiments of a Practical Husbandman, on various subjects of great Importance: Particularly The Exportation of Corn. The Balance of Agriculture and Manufactures. The present State of Husbandry. The Circumstances attending large and small Farms. The present State of the Poor. The Prices of Provisions. The Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. The Importance of Timber and Planting. Emigrations to the Colonies. The Means of promoting the Agriculture and Population of Great Britain, &c. &c. To which are added, Sylvae: or, Occasional Tracts on Husbandry and Rural Oeconomics
Author: [YOUNG, Arthur]
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 3 p.l., 482 pp. 8vo, cont. speckled calf (upper joint expertly repaired), single gilt fillet round sides, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: W. Nicoll, 1768. “The second edition, corrected and enlarged” of Young’s first book. “The book supported the bounty on the export of corn and introduced some of his enduring themes: the cultivation of waste lands, enclosure as a preliminary to improvement, and the superiority of large farms.”–ODNB. “The energy, the enthusiasm, the ambition and the insatiable curiosity of the youthful Arthur Young launched him…into a career of farm reporting (and later, of the administration of a tentative essay in national agricultural education) which for comprehensiveness, scope and intensity has never since been equalled.”–Trow-Smith, A History of British Livestock Husbandry 1700-1900, p. 70. Of particular interest here is the long seventh chapter on population and poverty. There are also references to the North American colonies. A fine and handsome copy. Engraved armorial bookplate of James Hallett.

Map of Sedalia, Mo., and Adjacent Lands

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Title: Map of Sedalia, Mo., and Adjacent Lands
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Description: Sedalia, Mo.: Morey & Crawford Real Estate and Loan Agents; Printed by J. West Goodwin, Printer and Engraver, [1887?]. Map printed partly in color, 30.5” x 24”. An unrecorded real estate promotion map for the town of Sedalia, Missouri and vicinity, located at the junction of the Missouri Pacific R.R. and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway, and situated roughly half way between St. Louis and Kansas City. This attractive map depicts Sedalia highlighted in several colors, which correspond to the original town, various additions, and a park. Numerous plats—both inside and outside the town—are identified by landowner. The prospective line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (labeled M.K.&T Ry)—“now in process of construction”—is shown cutting diagonally across the region from the northwest corner to the southeast, while the Missouri Pacific Railway runs horizontally through the town. The city cemetery—located in the town’s northeast corner—has within it a separate “Colored Cemetery.” The promotional text across the top reads in part: The largest interior city of Missouri. Population in 1860, 18; in 1887, 22,000. 188 miles west of St. Louis, 100 miles east of Kansas City … Central city of the finest agricultural and mining State of the Union. Sedalia is a central railway and distributing point of the great interior prairie of Missouri, lying between the Missouri River and the Ozarks, a region of unexampled fertility and of great wealth in the ores of iron, lead and zinc, and with an abundance of coal and timber … this great western country has been so wonderfully developed in the recent past, Sedalia stands pre-eminently at the head as the typical western city, but without the feverish mushroom growth of forced and artificial boom…real estate has never been exhorbitantly high, and at present prices offers magnificent profits to the investor. Also noted are the supply of pure water in the town; free schools; the employment of some 1,500 in the “principal car and machine shops”; the projected increase of the railroad facilities and roads, and so on. Situated ninety miles east of Kansas City and 190 miles west of St. Louis, Sedalia was founded in 1860 as a railroad town and serves as the seat of Pettis County in west-central Missouri. Town founder Gen. George R. Smith established the city in an effort to attract the Pacific R.R. to the fledgling community after its neighboring town Georgetown failed to attract railroad investment. In 1860, the Missouri legislature chartered the Tebo & Neosho R.R. Co. to build a line between the location that later become Sedalia and Neosho, Missouri. In 1861, Sedalia became the terminus of the Pacific R.R. and saw its first train passengers that year. While the Civil War stalled plans for the Tebo & Neosho, when the war ended the legislature changed the charter to set the terminus of the line at Fort Scott, Kansas instead of Neosho. 1870 saw the first passenger train depart from Sedalia via the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R.R. (MK&T). Sedalia’s transformation from a frontier community to a town occurred in the 1870s due to the growth of the railroads, which continued to fuel growth in the ‘80s. The Depression hit Sedalia hard—Life Magazine identified Sedalia as the city hit second hardest in America. Railroad strikes in the early ‘20s had also weakened Sedalia’s economy. The decline of passenger rail service coupled with the rise of the automotive industry impacted the MK&T, and in 1958 the last MK&T passenger train passed through Sedalia. Rare. Not in OCLC, Antique Map Price Record, Rumsey or Phillips. REFERENCES: About Sedalia at ci.sedalia.mo.us; A Brief History of Downtown Sedalia at downtownsedalia.com CONDITION: Good, old folds, two small holes along one fold not affecting printing, some toning along folds.

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By S.S. McClure by [Cather, Willa Sibert]

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Title: MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By S.S. McClure
Author: [Cather, Willa Sibert]
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Description: 1915. With Many Illustrations. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1915]. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt with pictorial panel on the front cover, with dust jacket. First Edition, second printing (the first to have a dust jacket) -- of the autobiography of the Irish-American investigative publisher Samuel Sidney McClure -- ghost-written by his managing editor, Willa Cather. McClure (1857-1949) emigrated with his widowed mother from County Antrim to a farm in Indiana when he was nine; after attending Valparaiso schools, between 1874 and 1882 he gradually worked his way through Knox College in Galesburg Illinois. In 1897 McClure teamed up with F.N. Doubleday to create Doubleday & McClure publishers, and upon its dissolution in 1900, McClure created McClure, Phillips & Co. (which in turn would sell its assets back to Doubleday in 1908). When in 1905 McClure's cousin brought to his attention the writings of one Willa Cather, MP&Co published her first work of fiction, THE TROLL GARDEN. A year later most of the McClure's Magazine editorial staff (including Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens) resigned, at which time McClure hired Cather as an editor; she later became managing editor. By 1912-1913 he lost control of the magazine that still bore his name, and Cather resigned; it was during this time that he engaged her to write his autobiography. In his brief introduction, McClure states "I am indebted to the coöperation of Miss Willa Sibert Cather for the very existence of this book." (One might say that her work was a lot more than coöperation!) This copy is from the second printing of the first edition -- with "May, 1914" on the title verso, which is a typo as it was actually issued in May 1915 (the first printing correctly reads "September, 1914"). In this second printing, the corrected leaf 239/240 is integral. This volume is in fine condition. Included is the scarce, but curious, dust jacket. Crane did not see, and questions the existence of, a dust jacket for the 1914 first printing; for the second printing, she saw only this exact example. What is curious is that the three books advertised (on the front flap, rear flap, and rear panel) were first published in 1914, in 1915 and in 1919! "It is possible that this is the first jacket, printed and supplied to the books in 1919, and that earlier copies were issued without dust jackets -- at least, no example has been seen or reported." The jacket is very good-plus, with edge-wear that is minor except for one chip at the lower rear corner of the spine, affecting one word on the rear panel and the "S" of "STOKES" at the foot of the spine. Crane A7.a.i.

Al Contemplar Que Desaparece de la Metropolitana de Mexico la Grandiosa y Nunca Bien Ponderada Perspectiva, de Que por Doce Dias (Desde el 25 de Agosto al 7 de Septiembre) Hemos Gozada, a Merced de las Actuales Dificiles Circunstancias, Se Despide del Señor de Santa Teresa y de Maria Santisima de los Dolores Que Se Venera en la Santa Casa Profesa, uno de los Expectadores, con Esta Odita [caption title] by [Abadiano, Luis]

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Title: Al Contemplar Que Desaparece de la Metropolitana de Mexico la Grandiosa y Nunca Bien Ponderada Perspectiva, de Que por Doce Dias (Desde el 25 de Agosto al 7 de Septiembre) Hemos Gozada, a Merced de las Actuales Dificiles Circunstancias, Se Despide del Señor de Santa Teresa y de Maria Santisima de los Dolores Que Se Venera en la Santa Casa Profesa, uno de los Expectadores, con Esta Odita [caption title]
Author: [Abadiano, Luis]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Mexico City: Imprenta del Ciudadano Alejandro Valdes, 1833. Very good.. Broadside, approximately 12.25 x 8.5 inches. Two small wormholes at left margin. Light dust soiling and toning. Scarce devotional poem, attributed to Luis Abadiano, for the veneration of depictions of the Señor de Santa Teresa and Maria Santisima de los Dolores. This "Odita," or "little ode," is composed of twelve short, four-line stanzas, printed in double columns within a double border of printer's ornaments, and signed "L.A." at the foot of the second column. A nice copy of a handsome piece of ephemeral, devotional printing; we locate only one copy, at Brown.

Cambridge Problems: Being a Collection of the Printed Questions Proposed to the Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts at the General Examinations, From the Year 1801 to the Year 1810 Inclusive, With a Preface by a Graduate of the University

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Title: Cambridge Problems: Being a Collection of the Printed Questions Proposed to the Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts at the General Examinations, From the Year 1801 to the Year 1810 Inclusive, With a Preface by a Graduate of the University
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG: Wear to the covers. Tanning and foxing to some pages. Overall clean and with solid binding.
Description: Cambridge: F. Hodson, 1810. Hardcover. VG: Wear to the covers. Tanning and foxing to some pages. Overall clean and with solid binding.. A three-quarter leatherbound book with gilt text on a red plate on the spine. xvii, 179, xix, 653 pages. Contains several foldout diagrams and black-and-white figures.

Holy Russia and Other Poems. Translated from the Russian by [Translated by] Matheson, P. E.

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Title: Holy Russia and Other Poems. Translated from the Russian
Author: [Translated by] Matheson, P. E.
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London / New York / Etc.: Humphray Milford / Oxford University Press, 1918. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [2], 3-63, [1]; textured gray paper over boards and 1/4 cloth; partially unopened; a bit of age-darkening to margins of boards; slight offset to first and last leaves; in very good condition.Percy Ewing Matheson (1859 - 1946), a British translator and author, translated the poems in order "to convey something of the distinctive spirit and athmosphere of Russian life" in the aftermath of the October Revolution. Included were works by Lermontov, Nekrasov, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Tyutchev, and others.

Les Masques by ART - Bruaud, G

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Title: Les Masques
Author: ART - Bruaud, G
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A good copy with one corner chipped.
Description: Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1948. First Edition.. orig. prtd. wrappers.. A good copy with one corner chipped.. 8vo. The text is illus. throughout. A wide ranging essay on the use of and cultural import of masks of all types. This is one of 105 copies issued.

FELIX DROESE. Sterben-nicht ich. Oct.-Nov. 1993. by Aachen. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.

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Title: FELIX DROESE. Sterben-nicht ich. Oct.-Nov. 1993.
Author: Aachen. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.
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Description: Aachen, 1993.. 39, (1)pp. Prof. illus. (partly color). Sm. 4to. Wraps. Signed and dated 1993 by the artist on the title-page.

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The Guinness Book of Historical Blunders by Regan, Geoffrey

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Title: The Guinness Book of Historical Blunders
Author: Regan, Geoffrey
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ISBN: 9780851127859
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Description: Guinness, 1995. Very Good. Regan, Geoffrey. The Guinness Book of Historical Blunders. London: Guinness, 1995. 186pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light bumping to corners and slight fading to spine.

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