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Từ bi đạo tràng mục liên sám pháp 慈悲道場目連懺法 [Penitence at the Compassionate Ritual Grounds of Maudgalyāyana] by MAUDGALYĀYANA, The Story of

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Title: Từ bi đạo tràng mục liên sám pháp 慈悲道場目連懺法 [Penitence at the Compassionate Ritual Grounds of Maudgalyāyana]
Author: MAUDGALYĀYANA, The Story of
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Two full-page frontis. woodcuts, printed on each side of first leaf of Vol. I & one full-page woodcut on final leaf of Vol. II. 61.5; 107 folding leaves. Three parts in two vols. 8vo (287 x 171 mm.), orig. wrappers (Vol. I) & modern wrappers (Vol. II), stitched (orig. stitching in Vol. I). Quần phương hạ xã: Anh quang tự, 1928. First edition of this very rare Vietnamese edition of the story of Maudgalyāyana. The journey of Maudgalyāyana (rendered in Chinese as mulian 目連), one of the Buddha’s earliest disciples, into the most abysmal and gruesome of Buddhist hells in his quest to rescue the soul of his mother was perhaps the single most important story in Chinese popular Buddhism since medieval times. The detailed depictions of tortures inflicted upon sinners relayed in Maudgalyāyana’s story made Buddhist cosmology and morality vividly graspable to the laity, and since the 12th century at the latest, staged performances of his underworld travel have accompanied the Ghost Festival held at the full moon of the seventh month, attended by masses of people across social strata. These theatrical retellings of Maudgalyāyana’s travels remained highly popular until the early 20th century and are still sometimes staged today. The tale’s popularity and influence since medieval times had been so immense that David Johnson, a historian of Chinese popular culture, writes that “among the tens of thousands of Chinese operas, none had deeper religious significance, or was watched with greater excitement, or was integrated into a more complex ritual matrix, than [Maudgalyāyana]” (“Actions Speak Louder than Words: The Cultural Significance of Chinese Ritual Opera,” in Ritual Opera, Operatic Ritual, IEAS Publications: 1989, p. 2). Unsurprisingly, then, there was wide dissemination of Maudgalyāyana narratives and rituals not only in China but throughout East Asia in local and vernacular retellings of his story in a large range of religious and literary genres. Our copy of Penitence at the Compassionate Ritual Grounds of Maudgalyāyana, printed in northern Vietnam in 1928, is one such example. It opens with two illustrations from the canonical narrative of Maudgalyāyana: the assembly of disciples attentively surrounding the Buddha, and Maudgalyāyana entering Avīci Hell riding a cloud, holding the Buddha’s magical staff. The book itself is simultaneously a narrative account of Maudgalyāyana’s travels and a Buddhist ritual of penitence, opening as it does with prayers of refuge and devotion to “Shakyamuni, the benevolent father” (Thích-ca từ phụ 釋迦慈父, an interesting appellation). The prayer sections also make use of the placeholding name giáp mỗ 甲某, which during ritual readings of the text was probably to be replaced with one’s own name. Despite sharing the same title as a canonical Buddhist scripture (T. 1909) composed in the Liang dynasty, a comparison of contents suggests that ours is a related but substantially different text. The first Preface makes it clear that this text is indeed based on an original in the “northern country” — i.e., China — and an earlier, domestic edition was made possible by the secular and ritual offerings of the monk Trí Giác 智覺. For some time, the woodblocks had been stored in the Trác điền temple 卓田寺 in Bình Lục 平陸, Hà Nam province, and did not circulate widely. As a result, a reprint was made in Tự Đức 9 (1856) by a monk named Thanh Tuyền Bhikṣu 清泉比丘. His Preface, also dated 1856, is found in the first volume. By the 1920s, however, there was another problem: there were too many variants of the text in circulation, which became a source of confusion. The monk Thanh Hưởng 清亨, using the earlier woodblocks stored at the Anh quang temple 英光寺 (Quần phương hạ 羣芳下 commune, Nam Định province) and with the guidance of Phổ Tụ 普聚, collated various editions in circulation and created a new edition. This editorial history might explain why our copy does not correspond to known Chinese versions of the text, as it probably has incorporated local Vietnamese elements. The woodblocks were carved by two craftsmen (named Phó Dung 付瑢 and Phó Huênh 付轟) from the Liễu choàng xã 柳幢社, with monetary offerings from monks and laypeople across many temples and communes (listed towards the end of the second volume). The carving began in Bảo Đại 1 (1926) and concluded two years later, in 1928; the completed woodblocks were kept at the Anh quang temple. Despite the country’s long history of Buddhist and Confucian learning, woodblock-printed books published within Vietnam itself are far fewer in number today than their Chinese or Japanese counterparts. This scarcity of extant Vietnamese books is due to a variety of factors, including the cost of local printing, a humid climate that makes preservation difficult, as well as the country’s recent, war-torn past. Outside of Buddhist texts kept by individual temples in Vietnam (whose collections are difficult to access), the bulk of these books are now kept at a handful of institutions such as the Institute of Sino-Nôm Studies in Hanoi and l’École française d’Extrême-Orient in Paris. The catalogue of these collections shows two items with the same title as ours (Viện nghiên cứu Hán nôm AC.607 and AC.647), but there is insufficient detail to determine their editions. We find no Vietnamese woodblock-printed copy by this title on WorldCat. Very good set. Final three leaves of the second volume are carefully repaired. The full-page woodcut on the final leaf is partially defective at the borders but the main image is completely intact. ❧ Rostislav Berezkin, Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China (Univ. of Washington: 2017); Beata Grant and Wilt Idema, Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang (Univ. of Washington: 2011); David Johnson (ed.), Ritual Opera, Operatic Ritual (IEAS Publications: 1989); Stephen F. Teiser, The Ghost Festival in Medieval China (Princeton: 1988); Yuenan Hannan wenxian ziliaoku 越南漢喃文獻資料庫, Academia Sinica.

Death Stops The Manuscript by Richard M. Baker

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Title: Death Stops The Manuscript
Author: Richard M. Baker
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Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In a near Fine Jacket. First Edition.$2.00 On Flap. Scarce Vintage Biblio-Mystery One Of The Best Excellent Rare Copy..

A Child's Garden of Verse, The Complete Edition, With a Biographical Sketch of the Author and an Index of First Lines by STEVENSON, Robert Louis

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Title: A Child's Garden of Verse, The Complete Edition, With a Biographical Sketch of the Author and an Index of First Lines
Author: STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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Description: New York: Platt & Munk, 1961. EULALIE [Eulalie Minfred BANKS]. [JUVENILE] [POETRY] [ILLUSTRATED]. EULALIE [Eulalie Minfred BANKS], illustrator. 12mo (7 5/8" x 6 1/8"); 84pp; mint green buckram over board, dard green stamped lettering on front and spine; bright yellow eps, ownership on front pastedown; color printed title page with a vignette of a parade; 10 full-page color illustrations and smaller line drawings; color pictorial dust jacket, bottom front flap clipped, top front flap price $1.50, soiling and sunning, edges scuffed; fine in very good dj. Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved rhyming verse for children, with the charming illustrations of the noted British children's artist, Eulalie.

All Maine Cooking; Front wrapper title: All Maine Cooking, A Collection of Treasured Recipes from the Pine Tree State by WIGGIN, Ruth and Loana SHIBLES

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Title: All Maine Cooking; Front wrapper title: All Maine Cooking, A Collection of Treasured Recipes from the Pine Tree State
Author: WIGGIN, Ruth and Loana SHIBLES
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Condition: Very good +
Description: Rockland, Maine: Courier-Gazette, Inc, 1967. Comb-style plastic wraps. Very good +. Anna PARKER. 8vo; 187 + 1pp order forms; color pictorial stiff glazed wrapper with black comb-style plastic binding; illustrated title page in black and green; chapters by county, color illustrated chapter divisions with a blurb about the county; recipes with authors and their home towns; scattered marginalia in pencil; 7 pp index; light shelf wear and a few stray spots; very good plus. Attractive cook book with interesting blurbs on the counties.

FURTHER LETTERS OF JOHN BUTLER YEATS, Selected by Lennox Robinson by Yeats, John Butler (lettters); Lennox Robinson (editor)

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Title: FURTHER LETTERS OF JOHN BUTLER YEATS, Selected by Lennox Robinson
Author: Yeats, John Butler (lettters); Lennox Robinson (editor)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. First edition. Linen-backed blue paper-covered boards, with spine label; 8vo; 81pp. Small binder sticker on pastedown. Front hinge tender, label lightly worn; a bit toned and dusty, but quite nice and certainly Very Good. Excerpts from letters to his Brother W. B. Y. The Cuala Press was run by W. B. Yeats' sister Eleanor.

Life and Literature of the Ancient Hebrews. by ABBOTT, Lyman.

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Title: Life and Literature of the Ancient Hebrews.
Author: ABBOTT, Lyman.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,. Near Fine. 1901. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo, bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering along the spine, top edge gilt. Previous owner's name and address (in pencil) on front free endpaper, else near fine. No dust jacket. Binding is solid and tight.; 408 pages .

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