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Five illustrated handscrolls on paper, entitled on the oldish wooden box “Kasō maki” 家相巻 [“House Physiognomy”] by MATSUURA, Tokei 松浦東渓 (or Hisanobu 久信)

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Title: Five illustrated handscrolls on paper, entitled on the oldish wooden box “Kasō maki” 家相巻 [“House Physiognomy”]
Author: MATSUURA, Tokei 松浦東渓 (or Hisanobu 久信)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 16 ink & brush diagrammatic illus. Five scrolls (details below), all with silk brocade outer front endpapers & gold speckled inner endpapers, with manuscript title labels. [Japan]: mid- to late Edo (at the end of each scroll we have the signature of Matsuura & two of his seals). Feng shui arrived in Japan from China in the 6th-7th centuries and soon became formalized by the Onmyōryō (Bureau of Yin-Yang), which managed divination, cosmology, and geomancy. Over several centuries, the Japanese practice of feng shui (known as fūsui 風水) was absorbed into native beliefs like Shintōism, using intuitive practices that stressed simplicity and mindfulness. Fūsui employed the geomantic concept of the “Four Divine Guardians,” using this to plan buildings and cities. Each cardinal direction is protected by one of four mythological creatures: the Azure Dragon (青龍 seiryū) in the east, the White Tiger (白虎 byakko) in the west, the Vermilion Bird (朱雀 suzaku) in the south, and the Black Turtle-Snake (玄武 genbu) in the north. The practice of using fūsui was known as kasō (“house physiognomy” or “ecomancy”), choosing not only the proper house design but also an auspicious site and placement on that location. These considerations are still widely observed today in Japan. The author of our five scrolls, Matsuura Tokei (1752-1820), a Shintō priest, was one of the leading practitioners of fūsui in Osaka during a time when its use dramatically increased. He wrote a number of books on fūsui and kasō, including Kasō zukai 家相圖解 [House Physiognomy, Illustrated and Described] (1798) and Kasō zusetsu taizen 家相圖說大全 [Encyclopedia of House Physiognomy, Illustrated and Explained] (1801). The collection of texts and illustrations presented in our five scrolls: 1. “Kasō chūō no maki” 家相中央之巻, “Scroll on House Physiognomy, Essential Information.” Scroll (203 x 4750 mm.). A general introduction to fūsui and kasō. There are also suggestions on good and bad locations of the kitchen and the Buddhist altar room. 2. “Kasō seiryū no maki” 家相青龍之巻, “Scroll on House Physiognomy, Azure Dragon.” Five illus. Scroll (203 x 5420 mm.). This east guardian is represented by water and symbolizes spring and the element wood. 3. “Kasō byakko no maki” 家相白虎之巻. “Scroll on House Physiognomy, White Tiger.” Three illus. Scroll (203 x 4460 mm.). The west guardian is connected to autumn, metal, and a major road or path. 4. “Kasō suzaku no maki” 家相朱雀之巻, “Scroll on House Physiognomy, Vermilion Bird.” Five illus. Scroll (203 x 5590 mm.). The south guardian is associated with fire, summer, and open plains or sea. 5. “Kasō genbu no maki” 家相玄武之巻, “Scroll on House Physiognomy, Black Turtle-Snake.” Three illus. Scroll (203 x 4320 mm.). The north guardian is linked to winter, water, and protective mountains to shield from evil forces. All five scrolls are concerned, in great detail, with the proper placement of the well, kitchen, and bathing area as they are the primary sources of good or ill health. Fine condition, preserved in an oldish wooden box with an inscription on the outside bottom: “owned by Takeda, April 1886.”.

Charlotte's Web by WHITE, E.B.

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Title: Charlotte's Web
Author: WHITE, E.B.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. A Classic of Children's Literature" "One of the Best-Selling American Children's Books of all Time" WHITE, E.B. Charlotte's Web. Illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1952]. First edition, first printing with "I-B" on verso of title-page. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 203 x 137 mm.). [viii] 184 pp. With numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Original gray cloth, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in black and blue, blue decorative endpapers. Miniscule evidence of glue on the original unclipped first issue color pictorial dust jacket with the price "2.50" on the front flap. A fine copy of the book in its original and near fine dust jacket with just the bare minimum of rubbing to extremities. One of the best copies that we have ever seen of this children's classic. Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985) and illustrated by Garth Williams (1912-1996); it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. "Dear Miss Nordstrom: ... I've recently finished another children's book, but have put it away for a while to ripen...," wrote E.B. White to the renowned children's books editor at Harper & Brothers on the first of March, 1951. The story did not so much ripen as find itself reconstituted, ending up as one of the best-selling American children's books of all time with translations into over twenty languages." (Grolier 100 Childrens' Literature, p.274). The novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. After her father spares the life of a piglet from slaughtering it as runt of the litter, a little girl named Fern Arable nurtures the piglet lovingly, naming him Wilbur. On greater maturity, Wilbur is sold to Fern's uncle, Homer Zuckerman, in whose barnyard he is left yearning for companionship but is snubbed by other barn animals, until befriended by a barn spider named Charlotte, living on a web overlooking Wilbur's enclosure. Upon Wilbur's discovery that he is intended for slaughter, she promises to hatch a plan guaranteed to spare his life. Accordingly, she secretly weaves praise of him into her web, attracting publicity among Zuckerman's neighbors who attribute the praise to divine intervention. As time passes, more inscriptions appear on Charlotte's webs, increasing his renown. Therefore, Wilbur is entered in the county fair, accompanied by Charlotte and the rat Templeton, whom she employs in gathering inspiration for her messages. There, Charlotte spins an egg sac containing her unborn offspring, and Wilbur, despite winning no prizes, is later celebrated by the fair's staff and visitors (thus made too prestigious alive to justify killing him). Exhausted apparently by laying eggs, Charlotte remains at the fair and dies shortly after Wilbur's departure. Having returned to Zuckerman's farm, Wilbur guards Charlotte's egg sac, and is saddened further when the new spiders depart shortly after hatching. The three smallest remain, however. Pleased at finding new friends, Wilbur names the spiderlings Joy, Nellie, and Aranea, and the book concludes by mentioning that more generations of spiders kept him company in subsequent years. Charlotte's Web was adapted into an animated feature by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions in 1973. Paramount released a direct-to-video sequel, Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure, in the U.S. in 2003 (Universal released the film internationally). A live-action film version of E. B. White's original story was released in 2006. Grolier 100 Children's Literature #92.

The Memoirs of Ruth Anne Fairchild Espoir 1958 by Switzer, Larry Jay

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Title: The Memoirs of Ruth Anne Fairchild Espoir 1958
Author: Switzer, Larry Jay
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Parlor Press Book, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Leatherette. Velvet dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Ruth Anne Fairchild. No. 9 of 50 copies. A wonderful and peculiar "Artist's Book", self-published, or so it would appear, by an author, artist, graphic designer who playfully suffuses his work with misdirection. Indeed, misdirection is at the heart of the work, for although "Memoirs" form part of the title, this isn't a true memoir for Ruth Anne Fairchild, since Ruth Anne Fairchild is a fictional creation of the author. 4to. 29 by 22 cm. Unpaginated, 91 leaves, by our count, including a few blank leaves and leaves that are a fraction of the full height of the book, with deliberately jagged edges, meant to look like they were torn. Most of the leaves are on fairly thick copier paper, but there are also exceptions -- one leaf on a tissue guard-like paper, one, a translucent colored mylar. The book has no shortage of physical novelties and gimmicks -- an actual teabag on its felt dust jacket, but one with doodles on it, filled with pink paper, suspended by red felt ribbon; a loose die-cut hand; etc. The author draws obvious inspiration from "Alice in Wonderland" and its tea party; characters from the classic appear throughout the work. He also is riffing about a whole shebang of things, such as Southern dainty propriety, a lace curtain gentility, that crested in the 1950s, and he parodies the fictional presentations of it. His targets are many, and the book reminds us of a comedy skit that is free associative, a bit scattershot, and fast paced. Ostensibly depicting the fifties, it is also very much a product of its iconoclastic, cynical times. There are no copies listed on OCLC First Search at the time of this description.

Agro. "Pilot Issue" Dec. 1969 (all published) by London Street Commune

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Title: Agro. "Pilot Issue" Dec. 1969 (all published)
Author: London Street Commune
Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description: Folded poster-pamphlet with texts and images printed in black ink on cream paper stock, opens to large color poster on verso. 4to [opens to 17.5 x 22.5 in] Near fine ; old central crease. Loose folded sheet. [1319] A delightfully riotous publication with texts attributed to former King Mob member Phil Cohen and associates in the London Streeet Commune. The poster illustration on the pamphlet's verso depicts a youth with a huge erection being sentenced to correction bu authorities at a "Penal Institution." Our expert source informs us that Agro was printed in an attempt to organize London's hippie, greaser, and skinhead youth cultures to work together against ruling class oppression, rather than antagonize one another. "At the end of 1969 the pilot – and only! – issue of Agro tried to mobilize the skinhead opinion. The paper ('printed by the Gutter Press'), bore the stamp of the [London Street] Commune and most of it in fact consisted of an abridged version of 'Project Free London', a small booklet to which I shall refer again. An editorial claimed that Agro would be produced and distributed, not from an office, but through an informal network of 'skinheads, greasers, heads; in pubs, caffs, clubs and on the streets'. The Commune was worried because skinheads and greasers had mobilized against each other instead of against straight society, and they saw Agro as a way of combining forces as a 'single subcultural front.'" Extremely rare. We can find no copies in OCLC or online.ref.https://standupandspit.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/agro/ https://www.wussu.com/squatting/144_piccadilly_supercrew.htm

A LOOK ROUND THE ESTATE / * ASSOCIATION COPY * by Amis, Kingsley

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Title: A LOOK ROUND THE ESTATE / *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***
Author: Amis, Kingsley
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: A LOOK ROUND THE ESTATE, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968, first American edition, near fine in a vg/vg+ dust-wrapper with one closed tear. Inscribed by the author to close friend and fellow writer Harry Harrison. Nice association thus.

THE INDUSTRY OF THE SOUTH: ITS IMMEDIATE ORGANIZATION INDISPENSABLE TO THE FINANCIAL SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY. A SPEECH DELIVERED BEFORE THE BOSTON BOARD OF TRADE, NOVEMBER 27TH, 1865 by Tobey, Edward S.

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Title: THE INDUSTRY OF THE SOUTH: ITS IMMEDIATE ORGANIZATION INDISPENSABLE TO THE FINANCIAL SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY. A SPEECH DELIVERED BEFORE THE BOSTON BOARD OF TRADE, NOVEMBER 27TH, 1865
Author: Tobey, Edward S.
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Boston, 1865. Original printed wrappers, disbound [loosened, spine shorn], 15pp, blindstamp on title page. Else Very Good. A very early plan to invest northern capital-- in partnership with government-- in the Reconstruction of the South. "Nearly the same working population which raised the five millions of bales of cotton and other products in 1860, is now there to plant and raise the crops of 1866." As capital will not enter areas "where society is disorganized and life and property comparatively unprotected," only government can overcome "this deficiency in capital and the protection and organization of labor." Complete with resolutions unanimously adopted by the Boston Board of Trade. FIRST EDITION. LCP 10313. Not in Sabin, Bartlett.

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