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Ceiling Designs from the Dunhuang Caves (Gansu Province, China) by -

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Title: Ceiling Designs from the Dunhuang Caves (Gansu Province, China)
Author: -
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: China, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. A bound portfolio of 20 remarkable silkscreened plates of ceiling designs from the Dunhuang Caves in Gansu Province, China. Also known as "The Mogao Caves" (or the "Thousand Buddha Grottoes"), these sacred caves are essentially shrines of Buddhist art temples and form a system of 492 temples southeast of the center of Dunhuang, which is "an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu Province". The portfolio has held up very nicely: clean and tight and Near Fine in its ribbon-tied, decorative boards. And all 20 plates are in pristine condition, with no wear or markings of any kind. The text in Chinese, the lavish plates along each verso.

The Natural History of Bees, Containing an Account of their Production, their Oeconomy, the Manner of Making Wax and Honey, and the Best Methods for the Improvement and Preservation Them by (Bazin, Gilles Augustin; René-Antoine Ferchault de Réamur; P. Valiant)

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Title: The Natural History of Bees, Containing an Account of their Production, their Oeconomy, the Manner of Making Wax and Honey, and the Best Methods for the Improvement and Preservation Them
Author: (Bazin, Gilles Augustin; René-Antoine Ferchault de Réamur; P. Valiant)
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1745. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (16), 452, (16)pp. Twelve folded leaves of plates. The final 16pp constitute an index. Recent full burgundy morocco, spine in six compartments, brown leather lettering label, gilt. A very good copy. Translation of Histoire Naturelle des Abeilles, an adaptation in the form of a dialogue of material from R.A.F. de Réaumur's Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insects, published in Paris in 1744. ESTC T61240.

THE STORY OF MOTHER GOOSE by Adams, Frank

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Title: THE STORY OF MOTHER GOOSE
Author: Adams, Frank
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: London, Glasgow, Bombay: Blackie and Son Limited, 1911. Near fine.. First edition of this evocatively illustrated MOTHER GOOSE book, a scarce and highly-sought version in particularly nice condition. Noted for his skill as a landscape painter, Frank Adams gives his lovely nursery rhyme illustrations a lush sense of depth, and his cheerful characters are evocative of Cecil Aldin. A lovely edition, with an amusing gift inscription in French. 11'' x 8.25''. Original red cloth-backed boards with color pictorial paste-on. Color pictorial endpapers of the arrival of MOTHER GOOSE. Color pictorial frontispiece with 11 full-page color plates and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. [13] leaves, folded at fore-edges. Early gift inscription in French to first blank that translates to "To the craziest of all English babies / Buttercup." Binding with light edgewear, small spot of soil to spine; boards a touch bowed at outer edges. Leaves sharp and bright.

PERMIT ME VOYAGE by Agee, James

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Title: PERMIT ME VOYAGE
Author: Agee, James
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus in very good jacket.
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. Very good plus in very good jacket.. Second printing of Agee's debut collection of poetry. Claimed as a peculiarly brilliant critic, screenwriter, journalist, and novelist according to the interests and allegiances of his readership, Agee has also been hailed in turn as a poet above all - "Basically, he was a poet" (David McDowell). The nature and quality of Agee's poetry, left undefined and nearly unmentioned in MacLeish's foreword, was described after his death by his friend and contemporary Robert Fitzgerald: "A sense of the breathing community immersed in mystery, exposed to a range of experience from what can only be called the divine to what can only be called the diabolical, most intelligent in awe and most needful of mercy - a religious sense of life, in short - moved James Agee in his best work." 9.25'' x 5.75''. Original green cloth. In original unclipped ($2.00) printed green dust jacket. 59, [3] pages. Jacket with some edgewear and soil, a few light abrasions to flaps, short closed tear repaired with tape to verso. Offsetting lines to endpapers, leaves somewhat toned. Sound.

The Buildings Plans And Designs Frank Lloyd Wright by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Title: The Buildings Plans And Designs Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. cloth and board portfolio. Very good
Description: New York: Horizon, 1963. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and board portfolio. Very good. Elephant folio, 30 pages in text, 100 mounted plates printed on heavy card stock. Foreword by William Wesley Peters. Limited edition copy 445E of 2600. 32 page booklet enclosed. Plates bright, clean and fresh. KARPEL B1332." A near but not exact facsimile of the Wasmuth `Ausgefuhrte Bauten,' published in Berlin in 1910. H. Allen Brooks, the distinguished Wright scholar calls the Wasmuth original the `most influential book ever published by Wright , and probably the most influential book on architecture published during our century.' The Horizon facsimile is very well done and essential to the student of Wright..............." SWEENEY 1534. Repair to first cover sheet: Guide To Terms Used In The Plans and black chemise holding the individual pages. Wear to board portfolio, cloth ties lacking.

The Great Heritage of Chinese Art by Zhenduo Zheng

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Title: The Great Heritage of Chinese Art
Author: Zhenduo Zheng
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG, Chinese characters on spine are supplemented by the English title written in small, thin white letters, along with the libra
Description: Peking or Shanghai, 1954. Hardbound. VG, Chinese characters on spine are supplemented by the English title written in small, thin white letters, along with the library call number. A very clean, tight exlibrary copy with a few stamps on ffep no other internal markings. Blue silk covered boards. 81 mostly bw plates; at least 2 color tipped-in. The first set of 12 plates illustrated 34 items from The Ancient Times, and are described both in Chinese and English prior to the plates. The second set of plates in this book (12 plates illustrating 30 items) represent the time period of The Western and Eastern Han Dynasties and the Three Kingdoms. The third set (14 plates illustrating 22 items) representing the time period of The Western and Eastern Tsin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Part 4 (8 plates illustrating 11 items) covers the time period of The Sui Dynasty, the T'and Dynasty, and The Five Dynasties, Part 1. Part 5 (10 plates illustrating 9 items) covers the time period of The Sui Dynasty, the T'and Dynasty, and The Five Dynasties, Part 2. The sixth and final set (15 plates illustrating 15 items) represents the time period The Siung, Liao, and Kin Dynasties, Part 1. Some of the plates in this final section are not described or annotated in Section 6, but may be so described in a possible section 7 (which if it exists is not mentioned or included here, and has not appeared in my research on this book. It may be in a vol. 2 which was apparently published in 1956).

Le palais du Grand Trianon intérieurs; sculptures décoratives, meubles et bronzes

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Title: Le palais du Grand Trianon intérieurs; sculptures décoratives, meubles et bronzes
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG
Description: Paris: A. Guerinet, 1907. Leather bound. VG. 3/4 Red leather with 5 raised bands and red cloth covers, gilt devices in compartments. Marbled endpapers top edges gilt. 3 preliminary leaves, 196 plates on 74 leaves. Scant text is all in French.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of English Political Portraits of the Eighteenth Century, Chiefly in Mezzotint, Loaned by Professor Charles H.A. Wager May 10 to June 7, 1932

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Title: Catalogue of an Exhibition of English Political Portraits of the Eighteenth Century, Chiefly in Mezzotint, Loaned by Professor Charles H.A. Wager May 10 to June 7, 1932
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG- (Clean, bright and tight but with light soiling to areas of both covers.)
Description: Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1932. Softcover. VG- (Clean, bright and tight but with light soiling to areas of both covers.). White stapled wraps with bw illus. and black lettering. 43 pp. with 1 bw illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of May - June 1932. Includes a preface and a well-annotated list of the 64 portraits. With an index of painters and engravers.

Walking Sticks Dealer Trade Card by Anonymous

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Title: Walking Sticks Dealer Trade Card
Author: Anonymous
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Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Wm Demuth & Co., 1880. First Edition. Very good. Trade card; 5 1/4 x 4; pale-pink card stock, chromolithographed, embossed, with gilt and silver highlights; a bit of wear to corners and high points ofo embossed design; a few mild spots to margins; very good condition.Wilhelm Demuth (1835 - 1911), a German immigrant, founded his pipes, cigar-store figures, canes, and other carved goods company in 1862 in New York. He would become known for his superb craftsmanship and his "Columbus Landing in America" centennial meerschaum masterpiece, which took two years to produce and was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The lavishly-illustrated trade card advertised his beautiful walking sticks.

Albee Directs Albee (Original poster for The One Act Plays of Edward Albee | Directed by the Author | Presented by Mark Hall Amitin as a forty week international tour in 1978-1979) by Edward Albee

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Title: Albee Directs Albee (Original poster for The One Act Plays of Edward Albee | Directed by the Author | Presented by Mark Hall Amitin as a forty week international tour in 1978-1979)
Author: Edward Albee
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: New York: Mark Hall Amitin, 1979. Vintage poster for Albee Directs Albee, a forty week international tour of eight Albee one act plays, directed by the playwright. It started in 1978 and was presented by Mark Hall Amitin, the founder of World of Culture. Plays included "The Zoo Story" (1958), "Fam and Yam" (1959), "The Sandbox" (1959), "The American Dream" (1960), "Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung" (1968), "Listening" (1975), and "Counting the Ways" (1976). Though primarily known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962), the winner of the Best Play Tony Award and source material for Mike Nichols' landmark film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Edward Albee has produced numerous varied works since his career began with "The Zoo Story" (1958), a play that opened alongside and drew comparisons to Samuel Beckett. The tour was produced and organized by Mark Hall Amitin, a prominent figure in the New York theatre world who worked closely with The Living Theatre and other companies. The production brought Albee's well-loved but seldom-seen smaller works to audiences across the United States, Japan, and South Korea. 15 x 18.5 inches, rolled. Near Fine.

[FINLAND] [BAKING] [TRADE CATALOG] Kaytannollinen Kondiittoritaito

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Title: [FINLAND] [BAKING] [TRADE CATALOG] Kaytannollinen Kondiittoritaito
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Condition: Large format gray warps. Very good
Description: Paperback. Large format gray warps. Very good. Weber, J.M. Erich. Liittyy Suomennoksena Saksankieliseen Loistoteokseen Pra-Ko-Ku (Praktische-Konditorei-Kunst) Dresden-Radebeul: Weber, c. 1921. 68 pages. Illustration mounted on cover. Over 600 products for confectionery and bakery operations aimed at Finnish market.

中国民居 = CHINESE CIVILIAN DWELLING [romanization: ZHONGGUO MIN JU]

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Title: 中国民居 = CHINESE CIVILIAN DWELLING [romanization: ZHONGGUO MIN JU]
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: [1991?]. Hardcover. Octavo (oblong], 42 pages. In Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is silver with white print. Dust jacket is illustrated, silver print. Boards in blue cloth; slight warping. Text block front flyleaf separating from binding. Illustrated: color photographs, includes potage stamps in small clear pockets. Inscribed in ink to American diplomat Raul Backburn by Zhang Aixne, Beijing Youth Daily. Text in Chinese and English. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1402980. FP New Rockville Stock.

New Jersey News Letter

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Title: New Jersey News Letter
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: NJ: Communist Party, 1944. Very Good. Dec 1. Very good Some browning and creasing.

Asian Pacific Lifeline: publication of the Asian Pacific Student Outreach: vol. 3, no. 2, October 1981

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Title: Asian Pacific Lifeline: publication of the Asian Pacific Student Outreach: vol. 3, no. 2, October 1981
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: USC Asian Pacific Student Outreach, 1981. 8p., tabloid newsprint folded, illustrated with photos and ads. Cover story on Job Market in the 1980s.

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