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Japanese Lacquer Photo Album with Watercolor Vignettes on Borders, with Original Box

Japanese Lacquer Photo Album with Watercolor Vignettes on Borders, with Original Box by Tamamura, K.

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
Japanese Lacquer Photo Album with Watercolor Vignettes on Borders, with Original Box
Author
Tamamura, K.
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good Minus
Description
Lacquer, Calf Boards, Fabric covering box. Very Good Minus. N.d., circa late nineteenth century. 25 by 20 cm. With 24 hand-tinted and/or colored photographs, all embedded in very thick card leaves, which have gilt edges. The margin of each photo is embellished with traditional Japanese watercolors of flowers, trees, birds, including ducks, pheasants, cranes, fish, waves. The watercolors tend to be diagonally arranged, with the artwork predominantly occupying two kiddy corners. In some of the watercolors, the colors jump off the page with their brightness, and it is these that distinguish the use of watercolors from mere color printing. Overall, the watercolors are exquisite and set this album apart from most other albums of this ilk, plus this one comes with the original decorative box from K. Tamamura. (Kozaburo Tamamura (1856-1924) was a photographer based in Yokohama from 1883 on and an originator of "Yokohama Shashin", the kind of tourist photographs present in this album and reaching a peak of production in the 1890s. The photographs are mostly human studies, generally of Japanese archetypes: Geishas, samurai, a Sumi wrestler, probably a peasant family, Kabuki performers, store keepers. These photos include both individuals posing and group photos. There are only two less exciting photos of tourist sites -- a Buddha statue and of a mountainous river valley. Condition: box repaired, with lid reattached, and newer cloth on back of spine, not entirely matching the cushioned silk fabric elsewhere. Lacquer boards well-preserved, with minor corner rubbing, and a few tiny indistinct scratches and the like. Leather spine a bit chewed at the edges and by the joints but original and worth preserving, as is. Cards into which photos are placed are foxed, sometimes lightly, sometimes, verging on heavily.
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE (with) THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL (2 titles)

THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE (with) THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL (2 titles) by Cheever, John

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Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
Title
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE (with) THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL (2 titles)
Author
Cheever, John
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Cheever's two Wapshot titles, both first editions, absent any names, bookplates or inscriptions, both dustjackets unclipped. Chronicle, 1957, dustjacket is moderately worn/chipped about the edges, and the spine a wee sun-faded with some shallow chipping at ends. Scandal, 1964, dustjacket has some incidental wear spine head, otherwise nicely preserved.
Arctic Adventure By Sea and Land From the Earliest Date to the Last Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin

Arctic Adventure By Sea and Land From the Earliest Date to the Last Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin by SARGENT, Epes (editor)

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
Title
Arctic Adventure By Sea and Land From the Earliest Date to the Last Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin
Author
SARGENT, Epes (editor)
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A very-good copy with minor wear to extremities, spine lightly faded
Description
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1857. A very-good copy with minor wear to extremities, spine lightly faded. 8vo. 480 pages. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; folding map; several plates and text illustrations. Original blind stamped cloth. FIRST EDITION. Chronicles the search of Sir John Franklin in the arcitc, with the contextualization of several other Arctic expeditions during the same time period (including those of William Parry and Sir John Franklin).
The Ambassador Club

The Ambassador Club by Goodman, Jack

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Seller: Tschanz Rare Books
Title
The Ambassador Club
Author
Goodman, Jack
Seller
Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
[Salt Lake City], 1986. Pen and ink drawing [23 cm x 30 cm] / [9" x 12"] on sketch paper that has been matted. Ink drawing of the south facade of the since demolished Ambassador Club, (now the site of the Oasis Cafe and Golden Braid) that accompanied the Goodman article 'Ambassador Club building holds fascinating place in Utah history' from the Salt Lake Tribune (1/19/86) by Jack Goodman (1913-2003), the longtime author of the weekly column "City View" in the Salt Lake Tribune. This image and article also appearrs in the Goodman compilation 'As You Pass By' (pp.94-96). "The Ambassador blueprinted a building that looks to me, at least, rather like an old-fashioned Army hospital or the Carlisle Indian School back in Pennsylvania. In any event, the old building functioned in its several roles, although it seems unlikely it will achieve the century mark.
Death in the House

Death in the House by Anthony Berkeley

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Title
Death in the House
Author
Anthony Berkeley
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1939. Very Good. New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. First Edition stated. Octavo (20 cm); [xii], 273pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in mauve cloth with dark blue stamping. Blue top stain and fore edge deckled. Boards worn at corners with bumping to spine ends and minor discoloration to margins. Binding slightly cocked but sturdy. Endsheets toned with off setting from spine glue. Crime Club Selection blurb on first page has some text lifted to the facing page from sticky residue (an eager and eating reader, perhaps?). Brief and unobtrusive pencil marks throughout. A Very Good copy of one of England's prolific mystery writers of the early 20th century.
The Three Little Pigs.

The Three Little Pigs. by Winter, Milo (Illustrator).

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Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints
Title
The Three Little Pigs.
Author
Winter, Milo (Illustrator).
Seller
Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description
Square Folio (13" x 10"0, illustrated paper wrappers. Illustrated. 14 pp. Minor writing on front cover, corner chip missing on rear cover, only affecting the letter T, some edgewear and edge folds, normal aging; otherwise very good and generally bright and clean. Attractive illustrations by Milo Winter are featured in this version of a classic tale. Winter (1888-1956) was a talented book illustrator that also did illustrations for an edition of Alice in Wonderland. # 106001

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