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A long, dramatic, and very finely illustrated scroll on paper (backed with mica paper & with wormholes repaired) with many fine brush and color paintings, including the use of gold & silver by WHALING SCROLL

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Title: A long, dramatic, and very finely illustrated scroll on paper (backed with mica paper & with wormholes repaired) with many fine brush and color paintings, including the use of gold & silver
Author: WHALING SCROLL
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Scroll (360 x 9290 mm.). N.p.: late-Edo? Our scroll, while it reveals no definitive place or date, was clearly produced in the early 19th century; it is uncommonly long and richly illustrated. In a series of distinct scenes, we see all the stages of whale hunting and processing. Each scene is a “beehive of activity.” The first scene depicts the boats sent out for the hunt, including boats for harpooners, a large boat carrying an enormous net, and pursuit boats. The following scene shows an enormous whale — we see only his head and tail — chased by pursuit boats, which are directing the whale in the direction of an enormous net now spread out in the sea. The whale is spouting and has caused the water to become extremely turbulent. The next scene shows the sailors spreading out the net in the middle of the ocean. This is followed by a scene showing the trapped whale surrounded by harpooners (on boats) who have hurled their harpoons into the whale’s flesh. In the following scene, with many harpoons in the whale, the ocean water has turned red with blood. Next, we see the boats towing the whale to shore. We then see the whale hauled onto the beach and being butchered. There is much use of red pigment in this image. The beach area is tightly secured, and we see butchers cutting up the fat and flesh while others are carrying these products into the secured processing buildings. Government officials are observing. We also see a thief, who has tried to steal some flesh, being beaten. The next scene shows the interior of the factory, with an assembly line of workers cutting up large pieces of fat with knives (the knives are painted in silver), so they can be placed in barrels and carried to the caldrons in order to render oil. We also see a storage area where the meat of the whale is stored. There are two balconies where government officials sit, examining the factory floor. There are workers measuring the meat on a scale and accountants keeping inventory using an abacus. Now we move on to the factory room where the whale bones are processed. We see two men using a very large saw cutting up the rib bone and a row of women cutting the bones into smaller pieces. A man is beating a drum to give the women a working rhythm. All the sharp tools — axes, saws, and knives — are painted in silver. We also see several workers pounding bone into powder. Our final scene shows the factory room where the sinews of the whale are being trimmed and hung to dry. Again, all the knives are painted with silver. In very good condition, preserved in a wooden box.

Twelve Poems by Edith Wharton by Wharton, Edith

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Title: Twelve Poems by Edith Wharton
Author: Wharton, Edith
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: The Medici Society, 1926. First edition. Original blue-grey paper boards, cloth spine, extremities slightly worn, a very good copy. Bookplates of Robert and Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks. Garrison A40. First edition, copy number 10 of 130 copies (100 for sale), printed on handmade paper. Most of the edition had a facsimile signature stamp on page [ii] below the hand-written number (these are often erroneously catalogued as genuine signatures). It is tempting to think that the first thirty (and maybe a few more) were those hors commerce copies purchased by Wharton before the stamp was applied, in order to be personalized. Inscribed by Wharton to her friends Robert and Mildred Bliss, "For Robert & Mildred from Edith Christmas 1926." Wharton and Mildred Bliss had become close doing war relief work for French children. Robert Woods Bliss was then the American ambassador to Sweden, and the Blisses had begun an effort to nominate Wharton for the Nobel Prize. Wharton wrote him on January 2, 1927, sending him a number of her books which Bliss had requested to help in this effort, but noting that, [already] "the Twelve Poems are unobtainable." Bliss then lent this copy to the Swedish librarian Carl Grönblad, whose card returning it is also enclosed.

A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE. With: THE FIELD OF ICE by Verne, Jules

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Title: A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE. With: THE FIELD OF ICE
Author: Verne, Jules
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1875. [a handsome set] [Together, two volumes.] With 129 | 126 [total 255] Illustrations by Riou. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1875 [actually 1874]. 14 pp undated ads in the latter volume. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First British Edition of the two volumes that together comprise Verne's maritime tale THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HATTERAS. Crewmembers sign on for a mysterious voyage to an unknown destination, in a ship without a captain; ultimately Captain Hatteras reveals himself (after posing as a member of the crew) and announces that they are headed for the North Pole. (Ultimately, after shipwreck and days on an ice floe, a mute Capt. John Hatteras winds up in an asylum near Liverpool, where he goes on daily walks, always facing north.) The American edition published by Osgood in mid-1874, all in one volume, was the first edition in English. Routledge published these two volumes in late 1874, though dated 1875 -- apparently not simultaneously (as a note at the end of the first volume's text indicates that the other volume "will shortly be published"). Some copies of the first volume, likewise dated 1875, bear the front cover and title page title of THE ENGLISH AT THE NORTH POLE; regarding precedence it is believed that A JOURNEY (as here) came first, because later Routledge reprints bear the THE ENGLISH title. Routledge subsequently (in 1875) published the entire tale in one volume. Both volumes are bound in terra-cotta pictorial cloth, though the cloth of one volume has a "pebblier" texture than the other -- a variation we have had before; Myers mentions only blue or red cloth, and we have also seen orange-brown and green -- no color priority known. Both volumes are in fine condition (slightly askew, but scarcely any wear). The same color and in great condition, they make quite a pair. Taves & Michaluk V004; Myers p. 65; also see Mistichelli A16. Provenance: both volumes bear a Christmas 1874 penciled inscription to the same person.

THE GNOME KING OF OZ by Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Neill, John R.; [Baum, L. Frank]

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix

Title: THE GNOME KING OF OZ
Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Neill, John R.; [Baum, L. Frank]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Fine in very good plus jacket.
Description: Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1927. First printing. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition, a lovely copy rarely found so bright - and rare in the original jacket. In this adventurous installment, the Gnome King's grudge against Ozma, the Scarecrow, and other beloved Oz characters leads to trouble. A classic, in beautiful condition. 9'' x 6.5''. Original green cloth, color pictorial paste-on. In original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket with ads listing this title last on flap. Illustrated by J.R. Neill with 12 color plates (coated on both sides) plus and many black-and-white images. 282 pages. Jacket lightly soiled, with shallow edgewear and small tape repairs to verso. Book bright with just a bit of bumping to spine ends.

Life, Speeches and Public Services of AbrahamLlincoln by Joseph H. Barrett

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Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB

Title: Life, Speeches and Public Services of AbrahamLlincoln
Author: Joseph H. Barrett
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Moore,Wilstach and Baldwin, 1865. Book. Near Fine. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. First Edition 1865 This Classic Study Of Lincoln In 3/4 Leather. Very Rare Copy. Excellent Condition..

Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book by Greenaway, Kate

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book
Author: Greenaway, Kate
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Later edition. Small square octavo (3 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 92 x 95 mm.). [iv], 128, [6] pp. Colored frontispiece, eleven full page color illustrations and numerous plain drawings in the text. Bound ca. 1960 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers ruled in gilt, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board-edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in the original fleece-lined, red cloth slipcase. Minimal fading to spine, otherwise very fine. This lovely little book is in almanac form with blank lined pages opposite most of the illustrations. "Throughout the autumn [of 1880] Ruskin toured the continent, with Kate still on his mind ...He returned to find her Birthday Book awaiting his criticism and wrote from Brantwood: 'Dear Miss Greenaway - I have just got home and find the lovely little book'... Punch congratulated her on her Birthday Book: 'A most dainty little work a really happy thought for Christmas'... To follow up the remarkable success of the Birthday Book, Evans wanted Kate to illustrate a selection of fifty favourite nursery rhymes, to be produced in a small format and called Mother Goose, or The Old Nursery Rhymes" (Engen). "Victorian-era children's book artist and author Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) began her career during the early 1870s illustrating greeting cards," (NYPL) but she soon turned her successful brush towards book illustration. "Like fellow illustrators Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, Greenaway sought to publish innovative children's works of the highest quality. Her focus on depictions of children, however, set her illustrations apart from those of her contemporaries. Greenaway's work is cherished today for its unaffected, pastoral imagery" (NYPL). Her romantic conception of childhood was based in part on her own experiences. Famous critic John Ruskin was known to be a huge admirer of her art. Rodney Engen, Kate Greenaway: A Biography, 74 & 79. .

[In Russian] Chemical Evolution. Moelcular Evolution towards the Origin of Living Systems on the Earth and Elsewhere. Translated into Russian with an Introduction by Alexander I. Oparin. Inscribed to Melvin Calvin by Oparin on the title page by Calvin, Melvin

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Title: [In Russian] Chemical Evolution. Moelcular Evolution towards the Origin of Living Systems on the Earth and Elsewhere. Translated into Russian with an Introduction by Alexander I. Oparin. Inscribed to Melvin Calvin by Oparin on the title page
Author: Calvin, Melvin
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Oxford, Moscow: Clarendon Press, [Publishing House "MIR"], 1971. Calvin, Melvin Ellis (1911-1997). Chemical evolution: molecular evolution towards the origin of living systems on the earth and elsewhere ( : ). Russian text. English translation by K.A. Lyubarsky and R.B. Lyubovsky. With foreword by A. Oparina. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. Moscow, 1971. Inscribed to M. Calvin from A. I. Oparin on the Russian title page, "To dear Professor Calvin, with love and respect, A. Oparin," dated Jan. 20, 1972. (139 x 215) mm. DJ. Cloth boards, title embossed on spine in black. Very good. Probably most well-known for his discovery of the Calvin Cycle, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 was awarded to Melvin Calvin "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants." (Melvin Calvin - Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022. Tue. 1 Nov 2022. ).

Air Spy: The Story of Photo Intelligence in World War II by Constance Babington-Smith

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Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore

Title: Air Spy: The Story of Photo Intelligence in World War II
Author: Constance Babington-Smith
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. First Edition stated. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Dust jacket is wrapped- jacket paper has a small hole at the midpoint of the spine, jacket price not clipped.

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Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann by Bachmann, Ingeborg

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Title: Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann
Author: Bachmann, Ingeborg
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN: 9781938890338
Condition: Very Good
Description: Zephyr Press, 2024-05-07. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8x1x5. Trade Paperback in stiff wrappers. Bilingual English/ German. Light outer wear. Internally, Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.

[Enchiridion.] Manuale di Epitteto con la tavola di Cebete Tebano. Versione dal greco del p. Giuseppe Maria Pagnini tra gli arcadi Eritisco Pilenejo. by Epictetus; Cebes of Thebes; Giuseppe Maria Pagnini, trans.; Anania Coen.

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Title: [Enchiridion.] Manuale di Epitteto con la tavola di Cebete Tebano. Versione dal greco del p. Giuseppe Maria Pagnini tra gli arcadi Eritisco Pilenejo.
Author: Epictetus; Cebes of Thebes; Giuseppe Maria Pagnini, trans.; Anania Coen.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reggio Emilia: G. Davolio for Anania Coen, 1805. Very Good. Octavo (185mm); 40, [2], 36 pages. Bound in contemporary green pastepaper wraps, worn and perished at spine (reinforced with strong Japanese paper on spine and edgers). Pages untrimmed. Text block lightly foxed in places, but generally clean and unblemished. References: CLIO III, 1721; cf Brooks, #489-90; not in Oldfather. After decades of ghetto confinement and yellow-hat stigmatization, the Jews of Reggio in Emilia enjoyed a period of liberalism in Napoleon's Cisalpine Republic, established in 1797. In this environment, Rabbi Anania Coen, melamed and principal of Reggio's Hebrew school, became interested in publishing secular literature. In association with Giuseppe Davolio, he issued Italian translations of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, of some of Walter Scott's novels, and, here, the Enchiridion of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus together with the arcane dialogue on the meaning of art by a Cebes, a contemporary of Plato and student of Socrates. (The Italian translation of Epictetus by Pagnini had been published by Bodoni in 1793.) How odd that a distinguished rabbi, who would proceed to establish his own Hebrew press in Reggio and later in Florence, should promote the unorthodox and questioning philosophies of Epictetus and of Socratics! Coen's own work in Hebrew is equally fascinating, centered on rhetoric, on the development of a modern spoken Hebrew, and on Hebrew-Italian lexicography. Coen left Reggio in 1825 to become the chief rabbi of Florence.

Maggie, A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
Author: Crane, Stephen
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. Gorgeous Limited Edition, Number Two in the Forty-Second Series produced for the Limited Editions Club, this being #523 of 2000 copies printed for the LEC by the Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon, NY. 4to, 124(2)pp. Bound in original fine 1/4 black goatskin over striped buckram covered boards. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Very well-preserved. About Fine publisher's slipcase has some very mild surface rubbing. Signed by the illustrator, Sigmund Abeles, on a special limitation page in the rear of the book. LEC newsletter, prospectus and envelope present and laid in. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.

The Emotions; Outline of a Theory by Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Title: The Emotions; Outline of a Theory
Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Philosophical Library, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Very Good in a Good dust jacket, unclipped ($2.75), generally soiled, rubbed, and with some chips, tears, and creases. Grey paper on the boards, front board splayed, toned at the edges with blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, soiled at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Sartre's work that "analyzes the roles which fear, lust, melancholy and anguish play in the life of man, and what is the true reality of conscious life.

Home Front Memo by Sandburg, Carl

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Title: Home Front Memo
Author: Sandburg, Carl
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally rubbed and worn at the edges, some creases and chips. Blue buckram with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, some rippling to the photographs, clean otherwise. A collection of Sandburg's writing about World War II.

The Fields of Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong and Hoa Hoi, Three Battles Just Beyond the South China Sea by MARSHALL, S. L. A.

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: The Fields of Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong and Hoa Hoi, Three Battles Just Beyond the South China Sea
Author: MARSHALL, S. L. A.
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Dial Press, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Field Sketches by Mark Lennox and the Author. 242pp. Tape shadows on boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear, and an interior tape repair.

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Undaunted Courage; Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by AMBROSE, Stephen E.

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Title: Undaunted Courage; Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Author: AMBROSE, Stephen E.
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780684811079
Condition: very good(+)
Description: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). Illus. 511pp. 8vo, 1/2 brown cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, (1996). Very good(+) in very good(+) dust wrapper.

Sweetheart, We Need Each Other by McCARTHY, Jos

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Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA

Title: Sweetheart, We Need Each Other
Author: McCARTHY, Jos
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Feist Building, New York: Leo. Feist, Inc, 1929. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Harry Tierney, music. 12 1/4" x 9 1/8"; 5 [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for Leo. Feist, Inc., 231 w. 40th St., New York with Rudy Vallèe whose voice has charmed millions of Radio Listeners selected "Satisfied" as a worthy successor to his famous "Vagabond Lover" on back wrapper; 3/8" split at foot of fold; very good. From Ziegfield's "Rio Rita" The Radio Picture Screen Operetta, starring Bebe Daniels, John Boles, and 1,000 others. An R.K.O. Production.

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