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Quaint Stories of the Samurais; Translated From the Old Original

Quaint Stories of the Samurais; Translated From the Old Original by Saikaku Ibara [Ihara]

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Seller: Biblioctopus
Title
Quaint Stories of the Samurais; Translated From the Old Original
Author
Saikaku Ibara [Ihara]
Seller
Biblioctopus (United States)
Description
Paris: Printed for Private Distribution; Maurice Darantiere, 1928. First Edition. 1st edition in English, from the 17th century Japanese root. Original printed self wrappers, modest age toning, crease to the front internal wrapper, 1/8” of wear to spine’s top else near fine. One of 500 copies. A very scarce title and a Japanese classic of 5 tales about gay samurai, originally written by Ihara in 17th century Japan in his book "The Great Mirror of Male Love" ( ). Saikaku's "The Great Mirror of Male Love" (1687) illuminates a great cultural divergence between East and West regarding same-sex relationships in the early modern period. In 17th century Japan, Saikaku openly celebrated male-male relationships among the samurai class, documenting these bonds as an accepted and even honored aspect of warrior culture. This literary frankness existed within a broader Japanese cultural context where same-sex relations carried none of the theological stigma that dominated Western thought. While contemporaneous European writers like Shakespeare could only hint at homoerotic themes through carefully ambiguous language and classical allusions, Saikaku wrote with straightforward explicitness about samurai lovers. Christian doctrine's categorization of homosexual acts as grave sins made such openness impossible in the West, whereas Japan's Shinto and Buddhist traditions lacked comparable concepts of sexual sin. The result was a literary freedom that would not emerge in Western writing for centuries.
Andy Warhol: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Andy Warhol: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris by WARHOL, Andy

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Andy Warhol: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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WARHOL, Andy
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Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Toning to margins with mild creasing to corners; close to near fine.
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Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (ARC), 1970. Toning to margins with mild creasing to corners; close to near fine.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Stylish six-panel leporello catalogue published on the occasion of Andy Warhol's Paris exhibition (Dec. 16, 1970–Jan. 14, 1971), for which he'd requested an entire room to be dedicated to his bright pink cow wallpaper. Featuring an introduction from Gilbert Brownstone and an essay by Alfred Pacquement, the latter illustrated with pink cows serially printed to margins. Printed to verso: a descriptive catalogue of the 122 exhibited works, organized into five sections: portraits, catastrophes, Campbell's soup cans, Brillo boxes, and flowers. Rear panel illustrated with black-and-white portrait of Warhol in profile.
London Fields

London Fields by Amis, Martin

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Title
London Fields
Author
Amis, Martin
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Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
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Jonathan Cape, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Publisher's in-house proof, labelled as an early photocopy of the manuscript, bound in printed wrappers. Reproduces extensive hand-written corrections to the text. Very good in wrappers.
Six Degrees of Freedom

Six Degrees of Freedom by BACKHAUS, Jessica

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Title
Six Degrees of Freedom
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BACKHAUS, Jessica
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9783868286670
Condition
A fine copy
Description
Berlin: Kehrer Verlag, 2015. First edition, warmly inscribed to a curator on the title page. With an autographed note signed and loosely inserted. A fine copy. 11 x 9.25 inches. 110 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "With her latest photographic series Jessica Backhaus examines, universal questions of human existence. Based on her own life story she inquires after the sig- nificance of knowing the roots of one's own existence and to what extent it is possible to re-elaborate these--usually prescribed--roots. With her photographs she symbolically captures the essence of this search and of her life stages. Simultaneously, she pulls off the balancing act of keeping the images open for the beholder. Her photographs possess metaphoric potential and work against the grain of a classic social documentary photography. They alternate between realism and abstraction" (the publisher).
Isaac Witkin

Isaac Witkin by [Isaac Witkin]

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Isaac Witkin
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[Isaac Witkin]
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780942051087
Condition
Very good
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NY: Hirschl and Adler Modern, 1988. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. [16]pp. Edges sunned, else very good in publisher's French fold wraps.

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