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Yuyangshanren jing hua lu jian zhu 漁洋山人精華錄箋注 [Essential Selections by the Hermit of Yuyang Hill, with Notes & Commentary] by WANG, Shizhen 王士禛

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Title: Yuyangshanren jing hua lu jian zhu 漁洋山人精華錄箋注 [Essential Selections by the Hermit of Yuyang Hill, with Notes & Commentary]
Author: WANG, Shizhen 王士禛
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Edited by Xu Huai 徐淮, with notes by Jin Rong 金榮. Full-page woodcut port. of the author. One introductory juan with biographical texts, 12 juan, & Supplement (bu 補) in 8 vols. 8vo, orig. blue wrappers, new stitching. [China]: Fenghui Tang 鳳翽堂, after 1736. An early edition, with additions, of the poetry of “the early Qing scholars’ hero” Wang Shizhen (1634-1711) (Matteini, The Ghost in the City, 15). Wang — who took the literary name “Hermit of Yuyang Hill” in reference to a hill by lake Taihu, whose scenery he admired — was a writer and a member of the Kangxi emperor’s private secretarial staff in the so-called Southern Study (Nan shufang 南書房). He participated in some of the major editorial projects undertaken at the Kangxi court. He was one of the most famous writers of his generation, particularly noted for his poetry, of which the present work is one of the most important collections. This edition comes with a chronological biography (nianpu 年譜) of Wang, his portrait, and funerary inscriptions. Xu Huai’s and Jin Rong’s edition is based on the Essential Selections that Lin Ji 林佶 had published for Wang in 1700. Wang had “entrusted [Lin, who had “exquisite calligraphic skills”] with a bundle of writings to edit, hand copy, and supervise the carving of its blocks” (Ko, The Social Life of Inkstones, 94). Our edition contains an annotated version of that work. One page is reproduced in Lin Ji’s clerical script calligraphy. Our copy is possibly a re-engraved version, like WorldCat 54948150, since it does not contain the date 1736 (Qianlong 1) anywhere, as some copies apparently do (see, e.g., WorldCat 173197162). Fine set, preserved in a hantao. References Ko, Dorothy. The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. Matteini, Michele. The Ghost in the City: Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. Wang Rongguo 王榮國 et al., eds. Liaoning tushuguan cang guji jingpin tulu 遼寧圖書館藏古籍精品圖錄 [Illustrated catalogue of selected rare books held at the Liaoning Provincial Library]. Shenyang: Shenyang chubanshe, 2008.

Pen Tamar; or, The History of an Old Maid (Presentation Copy) by Bowdler, Henrietta Maria [Harriet]

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Title: Pen Tamar; or, The History of an Old Maid (Presentation Copy)
Author: Bowdler, Henrietta Maria [Harriet]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1830. First edition. Near Fine. Contemporary straight grain morocco with griffin embossed in gilt to boards; rebacked to style with gilt to spine. All edges marbled. Some light scuffing near joints. Signed by the author on a bound-in presentation page and addressed to Mrs. Ed. Hawkins. Measures 127 x 203mm and collates complete: ix, [1, blank], 244, including both half and full title, frontis, and three plates. Light scattered foxing throughout, largely confined to the margins; else a clean and neat text. Fairly scarce at institutions, this is presently the only first edition on the market. An infamous Bluestocking and companion to writers Hannah More and Maria Edgeworth, Henrietta Maria Bowdler was invested in women's education at the same time that she was influenced by her family's more conservative religious views. This tension is apparent in Pen Tamar, which "gives a mixed message: ostensibly defending both virtue and single women [while] it excuses the hero's prejudice" (Blain). Yet its posthumous publication -- a purposeful decision by Bowdler, who "decided on deferring it during her life, expressing a wish that it should finally be offered to the public -- suggests that the author saw it as more progressive in its views than we might consider it today. It is after all a defense of single women, presented in novel form by a notoriously intellectual single woman who had the ear and the admiration of Church authorities and promoted the work of other female authors. Though her later reputation has become wrapped up in her work censoring Shakespeare's plays -- a project undertaken with her brother Thomas, and the origin of the term Bowdlerisation -- Pen Tamar is a striking reminder of a woman's desire to let herself be seen in her society, and of the ability of publication to make that happen and have an impact for others like her. Feminist Companion 120. Near Fine.

Sketches in Prose and Verse (Signed first edition) by Black, Anita Ciprico

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Title: Sketches in Prose and Verse (Signed first edition)
Author: Black, Anita Ciprico
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Condition: Very Good +
Description: San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Company, 1897. First edition. Very Good +. Signed on the title-page by Anita Ciprico Black. Publisher's cloth over flexible boards. 175 x 215 mm. 50 pp. With a photographic frontispiece of Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Some edgewear. Creasing to front flyleaf and a bit of foxing to first couple leaves. A very good, clean copy of an uncommon book. This appears to be the only book by the California writer Anita Ciprico Black. The collection comprises eight poems and four short prose pieces, two of which reflect on the relationships between white Americans and the diverse communities that would have surrounded Black in turn-of-the-century California. The story "Who is the Christian?" tells of a Chinese immigrant man caring for a wealthy, infirm white woman; "Lupé: A Tale of Mission Dolores" is the tragic story of a young Spanish girl, the daughter of missionaries, whose romantic hopes are dashed when conflicts between Spaniards and nefarious "Americanos" come between her and her Bostonian lover. Very Good +.

1940 WALLPAPERS (Montgomery Ward)

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Title: 1940 WALLPAPERS (Montgomery Ward)
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Montcomery Ward & Co, 1940. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1940 catalogue of wallpaper samples from retailer Montgomeryt Ward. 87 pages with 78 full page samples. Pictorial paper covers. cover sa wee soiled, the rest apparently unused.

A Child's Garden of Verses by STEVENSON, Robert Louis

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Title: A Child's Garden of Verses
Author: STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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Description: New York: Platt and Munk Co., Inc, 1929. EULALIE [Eulalie Minfred BANKS]. [JUVENILE] [POETRY] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Eulalie, [Eulalie Minfred BANKS], illustrator. First edition thus, later printing, dust jacket lists books first published in the 1930s. Small 4to (10 1/2" x 8"); 85, [1]pp +[2]pp glossary of words; blue cloth over board, yellow stamped lettering on front and spine; color pictorial laid on front board; color pictorial eps; 11 full page color illustrations including fp; small b&w line illustrations in text; scuffing to edges and corners; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with a price of $1.69 on front upper flap, loss at edges and corners, light soiling; very good plus in good plus dj. Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved rhyming verse for children, with the charming illustrations of the noted British children's artist, Eulalie.

Die Klavierwerke Bachs: Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Geschichte, Form, Deutung und Wiedergabe by [BACH]. Keller, Hermann

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Title: Die Klavierwerke Bachs: Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Geschichte, Form, Deutung und Wiedergabe
Author: [BACH]. Keller, Hermann
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Leipzig: Edition Peters, 1950. Quarto. Original publisher's light gray linen with titling in sepia and black to upper, black to spine. 280 pp. With musical examples throughout. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; minor fading to edges. Small C.F. Peters [Frankfurt/M., London, New York] light green label laid down to foot of title. Third edition.

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