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Song ta chun hua ge tie you xiang ben 宋拓淳化閣帖 [Model Books of Calligraphy from the Imperial Archives of the Chunhua Reign Period] by WANG, Zhu, editor

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Title: Song ta chun hua ge tie you xiang ben 宋拓淳化閣帖 [Model Books of Calligraphy from the Imperial Archives of the Chunhua Reign Period]
Author: WANG, Zhu, editor
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: More than 400 collotypes. Ten vols. Small folio, orig. blue wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, orig. stitching. From the colophon (in trans.): Shanghai: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1924. A fine and very rare edition of the earliest calligraphy collection of China. “In 992, the third year of the Chunhua reign (990-995), by command of the Song dynasty Emperor Zhao Jiong (reigned 976-998), the Court Calligrapher Wang Zhu selected masterpieces of calligraphy in the imperial collection. He had them carved in stone, and then had rubbings made which were mounted into an album. As a collective album of calligraphic copies, it consists of ten volumes featuring calligraphic copies by former emperors, eminent officials, and calligraphy masters… “Creating rubbings of calligraphic masterpieces is one ancient printing technique. First, workers traced a piece of writing on to a horizontal stone or woodblock: after writing the characters on a piece of paper, they used vermillion ink to outline them on the back. With a few more pieces of paper on top, they pressed the back of the paper against a stone or a woodblock to transfer the red impression from which they did the engraving. Finally, they used durable paper to make ink rubbings from the stone or wood engravings… “The first volume includes works by the deceased emperors and kings of past dynasties. Volume two to four gathers calligraphy by eminent officials. The fifth volume contains masterpieces of different calligraphers while volume six, seven, and eight feature Wang Xizhi (ca. 303-361), and nine to ten features Wang Xianzhi (344-386, Wang Xizhi’s seventh son)… “According to the Yuan painter and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), the album was comprised of calligraphic masterpieces dating from Xia, Shang, Zhou to the Tang dynasty (618-907)…Because the number was limited, the album was highly prized by later generations… “Model Books of Calligraphy from the Imperial Archives of the Chunhua Reign is the earliest calligraphy collection of China. Despite the inclusion of counterfeit works due to the incompetence of the compiler, the album is still precious enough for its success in maintaining the copies of predecessors calligraphic works. Therefore, it is honored as ‘ancestor of exemplary ink rubbings’ (fatie zhizu).”–from the Beijing Palace Museum webpage (accessed 24 Jan. 2022). Very fine and fresh set, preserved in a hantao. WorldCat Accession number: 1016173142. References Amy, McNair. “The Engraved Model-Letters Compendia of the Song Dynasty.” Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 114, No. 2 (April-June 1994), pp. 209-25.

KAFEE BAA KISSATEN KO^KOKU ZUANSHU^ by [PREWAR ADVERTISING] YAMANA Ayao

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Title: KAFEE BAA KISSATEN KO^KOKU ZUANSHU^
Author: [PREWAR ADVERTISING] YAMANA Ayao
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1930. [PREWAR ADVERTISING] YAMANA Ayao. KAFEE BAA KISSATEN KOKOKU ZUANSHU. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 5 [1930]. 11 13/16" X 8 3/4". Printed paper wrappers. 48 pp. of b+w and color plates, and 4 pp. of preliminaries and finals, depicting designs by the important 20th Century Japanese designer, Yamana Ayao (1897-1980), the originator of the "Shiseido-style" during his long tenure as the cosmetic company's head designer. This particular portfolio is a compilation of his designs for the coffee shop/bar trade - introducing a modified Deco aesthetic which was the height of chic in the inter War years all over the world, but particularly in the lost city of Tokyo. Remarkable, ephemeral, rare.

Poems of The Past and Present by Hardy, Thomas

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Title: Poems of The Past and Present
Author: Hardy, Thomas
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 260pp. + ads. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, gilt titles and device on the upper board. Top edge gilt. There is a very tiny closed tear at the top of the spine and the beginnings of a split between pages 159 and 160. Very minor bumping to corners, but an unusually fine, bright copy. Ex-Doheny, with the oval leather 'Ex libris Estelle Doheny' bookplate on the front paste down (and has offset, as usual, to the opposite page (the front free endpaper.) Webb, Bibliography of Thomas Hardy, pp. 35-36. This title was issued in two bindings, as Webb notes: dark green ribbed cloth, T.E.G; and white buckram with gilt edges. "The difference is one of size," he writes, "the cloth being about quarter-of-an-inch taller than the buckram.

[PHILOSOPHY] IMAGINING OTHERWISE: METAPSYCHOLOGY AND ANALYTIC A POSTERIORI by Andrew Cutrofello

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Title: [PHILOSOPHY] IMAGINING OTHERWISE: METAPSYCHOLOGY AND ANALYTIC A POSTERIORI
Author: Andrew Cutrofello
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine binding
Description: Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University, 1997. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; gray cloth with tilting in silver[ xi; 166 pages including the Index. there are no marks of any kind in the book. Near Fine binding.

[Cover title]: To-Day! To-Day!

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: [Cover title]: To-Day! To-Day!
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dublin: Dublin Tract Repository / (Dublin Steam Printing Co.), 1860. Softcover. Near Fine. 32mo. 15pp. 2.5" x 3.5". Stapled printed wrappers. Very near fine.

IN THE ELECTRIC EDEN by Arvin, Nick

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Title: IN THE ELECTRIC EDEN
Author: Arvin, Nick
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780142002568
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: Penguin Books, 2003. First edition, first prnt. Paperback Original edition. No hardcover edition. Pictoral wraps. Remainder stripe in the bottom edge; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine ondition. Arvin's first book.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Not Issued.

An Edmund Wilson Celebration by Wain, John

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Title: An Edmund Wilson Celebration
Author: Wain, John
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1978. First UK Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Clean copy. Not priceclipped. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions.

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