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(African American television) DIFF'RENT STROKES (1978-85) TV photo archive by NBC Television

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.

Title: (African American television) DIFF'RENT STROKES (1978-85) TV photo archive
Author: NBC Television
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Just About Fine
Description: NBC Television. No binding. Just About Fine. [New York]: NBC-TV, 1978-1985. Set of 43 vintage original 7 x 9" (18 x 23 cm) black-and-white photos. Almost all have promotional text as well as old photo agency stickers affixed on verso. Overall just about fine. Diff'rent Strokes is a sitcom which originally aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series starred Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, respectively, who are two boys from Harlem taken in by a wealthy Park Avenue businessman and his daughter. Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) is a widower for whom their deceased mother previously worked; his daughter, Kimberly, is played by Dana Plato. During the first season and the first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as Mrs. Edna Garrett, the Drummonds' first housekeeper, who ultimately spun off into her own sitcom, The Facts of Life, as a housemother at the fictional Eastland School. The second housekeeper, Adelaide Brubaker, was played by Nedra Volz. The third housekeeper, Pearl Gallagher, was played by Mary Jo Catlett, first appearing as a recurring character, later becoming a main cast member. The series made stars of Coleman, Bridges, and Plato and became known for the "very special" episodes, in which serious issues such as racism, illegal drug use, alcoholism, hitchhiking, kidnapping, and child sexual abuse were dramatically explored. (Wikipedia) Coleman or Bridges, or the pair of them, are in every single photo in this archive.

Both Sides of Broadway by De Leeuw, Rudolph M.

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Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

Title: Both Sides of Broadway
Author: De Leeuw, Rudolph M.
Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 504 pp. photographically illustrated book showing the structures at every address on both sides of New York City's most famous street from its point of origin to Central Park. Oblong 4to. Very good. Original wrappers preserved in recent linen boards. [439] A fascinating project intended to provide a photographic atlas of Manhattan's premiere commercial strip. De Leeuw's book offered businesses along the route advertising space to accompany the images of their location. Now it remains a marvelous document of a city in flux during the early days of the 20th century. An overlooked and important photobook. Scarce in the marketplace.

Bird-Dieties in China by Waterbury, Florance

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Title: Bird-Dieties in China
Author: Waterbury, Florance
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. brick cloth lettered in gilt. Very good
Description: Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. 191 pages in text. Folio, 32 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 18 of 350. Sixty-one full page plates. extensive List of References, Index of Subjects and Places. In myths from China and Japan, the phoenix does not emerge from a fire but instead causes itself to be reborn during times of good fortune. Cultures in northern Europe and Asia credited birds with establishing their social orders, especially kingships. The Japanese believed that sacred birds guided their second emperor in conquering his enemies before the founding of his dynasty.

Box of Ninety Place Cards, with four different complete sets of twenty, each set with a small reproduction of a Hiroshiga woodblock scene on one side, the other side, blank for a name to be written, plus a bonus of ten additional cards of that represent an intermediate state of the woodblock printing process for four designs all different than the designs of the complete sets by Takemura, H. [Hideo]

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: Box of Ninety Place Cards, with four different complete sets of twenty, each set with a small reproduction of a Hiroshiga woodblock scene on one side, the other side, blank for a name to be written, plus a bonus of ten additional cards of that represent an intermediate state of the woodblock printing process for four designs all different than the designs of the complete sets
Author: Takemura, H. [Hideo]
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Yokohama: H. Takemura & Co. [Hideo Takemura], 1930. Decorative Box. Each group of cards held together by paper band. Fine. Hiroshiga. Stunning group of place cards that transcend the genre -- these place cards are exquisite miniature woodblocks based on Hiroshiga's immortal artwork. Plus there is the added interest of the extra ten cards (two of two designs, three, of the other two designs) that obviously aren't quite yet the finished version of their artwork, yet are lovely just the same. These extras have some similarities to the artwork in the four complete sets, but they are unequivocally different -- the placement and size of a tori, for instance, is distinguishable, etc. N.d., probably from the 1930s when this printer and publisher, Hideo Takemura, was active and such place cards would have had an enthusiastic pool of buyers among Western tourists. H. Takemura was known for his printing of woodblock prints, generally, of course, in a larger format. Place cards would have been a novelty offshoot of that, but in our view, they are more than just throwaway variant reproductions. Besides the charm of the small to some collectors, these cards have an intensity of color that is breathtaking; that intensity is undimmed even after a century. These cards -- and the card is thick and near unbendable -- are almost too nice to use for a party just to have tossed after. Even though Takemura printed his own artwork, one can understand the incentive to use Hiroshiga imagery for place cards because of their irresistible appeal to tourists wanting to take home a piece of quintessential Japan as they imagined it, and the traditional virtually always shapes their view of a foreign culture. Not to be slighted is the packaging of these cards. The box paper pastedown is itself a work of decorative art, with its faux wood grain design, a trompe d'oeil one could say, and a pattern that captures something of the evanescent notion that informs much Eastern art -- there is a sense of movement in the irregular rippling pattern. The paper label on top of the lid is has a silhouette design and some calligraphic characters. Condition: All the cards, including the bonus cards, are pristine. Whoever bought the cards when visiting Japan clearly never dipped into the box once home, as it is complete and virtually untouched. The box has minor wear and soiling, as boxes not kept in a vacuum inevitably undergo.

The Blind Men and the Elephant by Carol Schwartzott, book artist

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Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop

Title: The Blind Men and the Elephant
Author: Carol Schwartzott, book artist
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Freeville, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 2025. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 1 of 10 deluxe copies signed and dated by the book artist. This is her third edition of this delightful work. Carol Schwartzott is an American book artist renowned for her limited-edition artist's books and miniatures, which blend typography, handcrafting, and thematic explorations of history, nature, and literature. She has been creating artists' books for over twenty-five years. Her work appears in many museums, libraries, and private collections including the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Operating Lilliput Press from her base in Freeville, New York-where she splits time with Florida-Schwartzott creates intricate assemblages using techniques such as letterpress printing, collage, stencil work, dyeing, and binding with materials like Japanese papers and custom boxes. Her works often function as journeys, layering facts, memories, and objects to evoke curiosity and intuition, with color serving as a dominant element. This is the deluxe miniature version of a charming miniature book that Carol released earlier twice eariler in multiple copies. The most recent before this was one of 255 copies. The first edition of the book was issed in 1994.This copy has ten color illustrations of an elephant with a letter from "elephants" appearing on each page and the book's text on the other side of the illustration. The The book describes how six blind men from Indostan explored the elephant's structure and nature despite their blindness. Bound is gray cloth with a color decorated image of an elephant on the front cover. Housed in an opulently decorated box with a colorful stiched decorated top cover and various decorated papers covering the outer sides and the inside. A button is attached to the front side for an accompanying thread with an elephant charm to wrap around to hold the box closed. The book for this lovely production from Carol measures 2 x 2 inches square. The box measures 2.25 x 2.25 x 1inches. Unpaginated. MINI/061026.

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