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Two finely illustrated handscrolls, each entitled on outside labels "Inuoumono no zu" [Hunting Dogs on Horseback, Illustrated] by INUOUMONO NO ZU 犬追物之図

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Title: Two finely illustrated handscrolls, each entitled on outside labels "Inuoumono no zu" [Hunting Dogs on Horseback, Illustrated]
Author: INUOUMONO NO ZU 犬追物之図
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Two scrolls (317 x 7880 mm.; 317 x 7200 mm.), wooden core rollers. At end of second scroll we find (in trans.): "Original owner Kanō Ansen 狩野安仙 lent his scrolls illustrated by Shinagawa Zui'un 品川随雲 & Sakazaki Kō'un 坂崎好雲 on 12 December 1713 to the painter Fujichika Morikazu 藤周守約 who copied them." Two handsomely illustrated scrolls with eleven scenes of the Inuoumono festival, which began as a military training exercise for warriors, emphasizing skill in shooting moving targets from horseback. It was a "sport practiced by samurai starting in the Kamakura period and consisting of shooting [blunted] arrows at dogs. Within a large, roped-off circular area was another circle about 15 m in diameter in which dogs were released. Samurai on horseback galloped outside the larger circle, shooting at the dogs and trying to knock them over. This sport disappeared along with the samurai class, in 1868. The game originated in China."-Louis Frédéric, Japan Encyclopedia (Cambridge, MA: 2002), p. 392. The sport became highly ritualized, with strict rules, and was often performed in front of the shogun and high dignitaries. Due to the influence of the Buddhist clergy, the arrows were deliberately dulled to avoid injuring the dogs. In the first scroll, the first scene depicts a group of men, participants and members of the audience, gathered in a large meeting hall facing the event field. They sit with a guest of honor. This is followed by a view of the playing field, surrounded by fences of bamboo stakes. Arrows with padded tips are hung from the fences. In the center of the field are the two circles, one within another. On a viewing platform, dignitaries wait for the games to begin. Next we see 60 mounted samurai in formation, with attendants, one of whom is escorting a dog to the circles. The following scene shows the dog in place and the competition about to begin. The final scene in this scroll shows the game in action, with 12 samurai taking their turns to shoot arrows at the dog. The second scroll is somewhat similar in theme but with rather different content. The first scene shows samurai gathered in a long meeting hall, waiting for the match to begin. Foods, including game, are laid out, ready to be cooked. The next scene shows a smaller fenced-in playing field with a viewing platform. Now we see 48 mounted samurai assembled, ready for action. This is followed by a view of the long hall area for spectators. Samurai are bringing food offerings to the guest of honor. Next is a scene of the playing field, again with dulled arrows hanging on the fence. Finally, there is a view of the 36 mounted archers, ready for the beginning of the match. Our scrolls contain small notes with instructions for further coloring. Preserved in a modern wooden box.

Commonpress 16: Artists' Postage Stamps by SCHRAENEN, Guy, editor

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Title: Commonpress 16: Artists' Postage Stamps
Author: SCHRAENEN, Guy, editor
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three Cinderella stamps affixed & black & white illus. throughout. [31] loose leaves as issued, several larger folded sheets. 8vo, printed wrappers & re-used envelope band, signed & numbered by the editor. Antwerp: 1979. The 16th issue of Commonpress, edited by collector and independent publisher Guy Schraenen (1941-2018), and produced in an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. WorldCat records only two copies, in Spain and Belgium. It presents the works of artists such as Anna Banana, Vittore Baroni, Paulo Bruscky, Henryk Bzdok, Ulises Carrión, Robin Crozier, Klaus Groh, Ko de Jonge, Tommy Mew, Pawel Petasz, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Lon Spiegelman, etc., etc. A total of 31 artists contributed to the issue. In excellent condition, with the envelope band preserved. Signed and numbered by Schraenen on the upper wrapper. ❧ "Petasz launched this travelling magazine in 1977, and it may have been contributed to the idea that, in Petasz's opinion, if each issue was edited by a different person and therefore the place of publication also changed, Polish authorities would not be able to control editorial work or ban the magazine. After the first issue [published in December 1977] Petasz only undertook the task of coordination. The practice was that the person who wanted to edit a Commonpress issue could announce any topic freely. If they wanted to know which issue it would be, it was necessary to exchange letters with Petasz. Then in each finished Commonpress publication the planned topic of the next issues, the deadlines to hand in contributions and the address of the editors were announced. This way the magazine was passed from hand to hand and the participants handing in their works followed the wandering addresses of editors to any part of the world. By this means Commonpress published nearly 60 magazines of very different characters in several years... "The whole project could be compared to one big assembling whose centre does not receive contributions by the artists but the editors participating in it present different magazines under a common title. The issues themselves hardly resembled assemblings, since they were Mail Art compilations..."-Géza Perneczky, Assembling Magazines: 1969-2000 (2007), pp. 72-73.

The Base-Ball Guide for 1874 by Chadwick, Henry [Editor]

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Title: The Base-Ball Guide for 1874
Author: Chadwick, Henry [Editor]
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1874 First edition. Publisher’s yellow wrappers printed in black with illustration of mustached pitcher to front wrapper, Peck & Snyder advertisement to rear wrapper. Good copy with triangular chip to top right corner of front wrapper (loss of “Price 10 Cents” statement), some shallow chipping to bottom edge of front wrapper, a few small closed tears to wrappers, light wear to spine, partially erased “$3.00” in pencil to front and rear wrappers, and some spotting to text block edges and a few pages at the front and rear of the book. Overall, a bright and attractive copy. Very scarce. The De Witt's Base-Ball Guide, published annually from 1868 to 1885, was the official publication of the Amateur and Professional Association, and stands as one of the first and most comprehensive guides to baseball ever published. New York Herald baseball reporter M. J. Kelly edited the guide in its first year, and subsequent editions were edited by the so-called "father of baseball", Henry Chadwick (1824-1908). The guide was aimed at both players and fans; it included lists of player averages, detailed explanations of the rules of the game, and advice for athletes on how best to prepare themselves for the sport. Interestingly, though the guides were immensely popular, some of Chadwick's advice was perceived as excessively proper - his condemnation of athletes drinking alcohol, for example, did not resonate well with all of his readers. Even so, Chadwick was revered as the foremost authority on the intricacies of the sport, and his writing for De Witt's Base-Ball Guide remains part of the sport's trajectory to what it is today.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good.

Bolor Erike: Mongolian Chronicle ... With Critical Introduction by The Reverend Antoine Mostaert, C.I.C.M. Arlington, Virginia and an Editor's Foreword by Francis Woodman Cleaves by Rosipungsug, active 1774-1775

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Title: Bolor Erike: Mongolian Chronicle ... With Critical Introduction by The Reverend Antoine Mostaert, C.I.C.M. Arlington, Virginia and an Editor's Foreword by Francis Woodman Cleaves
Author: Rosipungsug, active 1774-1775
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. Paperback. Near Fine. 5 volumes. 384, 366, 388, 466, 347p. Softcovers in original wrappers. 26 cm.. Preliminaries and Introduction in English; everything else in Mongolian A reproduction of the printed edition of the Bolor erike (Kalgan, 1941) in the possession of Antoine Mostaert and the reproductions of two Manuscripts of the text, also in Mostaert's possession. Harvard-Yenching Institue, Scripta Mongolica III.

FURIOSO - Vol. 5 No. 3 - Summer 1950 by [MAC LOW, Jackson]. Reed Whittemore (Editor)

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Title: FURIOSO - Vol. 5 No. 3 - Summer 1950
Author: [MAC LOW, Jackson]. Reed Whittemore (Editor)
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Northfield, MN: Reed Whittemore/Carleton College, 1950. First Edition. Very good.. Literary magazine published at Carleton College, with a contribution from Mac Low (the poem "Alas, Poor Queen, So Soon?"), and others' verse and fiction, including pieces by Edmund Wilson and Kenneth Burke among others. Mac Low notes the date of this poem ("Written 9 Feb 1950"), and another brief penciled note appears on back cover. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect bound printed wraps. About very good. Toning, light soil, and edgewear to wraps. Small tears to spine at head and tail. Interior clean throughout. 72pp. PROVENANCE: ex libris Jackson Mac Low, with his penciled notes on wraps, and inside next to his contribution to the review.

The Baby's Opera by Crane, Walter

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Title: The Baby's Opera
Author: Crane, Walter
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Frederick Warne & Co LTD. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Evans, Edmund. Pictorial paper with backed in brown cloth, 12mo, 56 pages, engraved and printed in color by Edmund Evans; boards are a bit worn, especially visible to corners, pages are clean and illustrations are bright. A book of old rhymes with new dresses by the earliest masters. 0

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