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Oh! Shinjuku by TOMATSU, Shomei

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Seller: Harper's Books

Title: Oh! Shinjuku
Author: TOMATSU, Shomei
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: A remarkably well-preserved copy, with minor rubbing to illustrated wrappers, else near fine.
Description: Tokyo: Shaken, 1969. A remarkably well-preserved copy, with minor rubbing to illustrated wrappers, else near fine.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Arguably Shomei Tomatsu's most important work, this dynamic portrait of Tokyo's Shinjuku district was published at the height of the New Left movement in Japan, with Tomatsu skillfully juxtaposing Shinjuku's traditional backdrop of corporate culture with countercultural scenes of sexual decadence and explosive street protests. The poetic text to rear cover stamps this as one of the great city photobooks: "Shinjuku is a modern jungle... a town that reeks of crime. Shinjuku is a town of night... a ghost of bloated desire that swallows everything. There are countless words that try to capture Shinjuku, but no matter how tightly you wrap the rope of language around it, it slips away with the speed of a loach" (our translation). (Parr / Badger, v1, 290).

[Collection of Original Photographs Documenting Construction of the Panama Canal, with Later Military Documents Related to Major William C. Foote's Service with the Coast Artillery Corps] by [Panama Canal]: Foote, William C.

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Title: [Collection of Original Photographs Documenting Construction of the Panama Canal, with Later Military Documents Related to Major William C. Foote's Service with the Coast Artillery Corps]
Author: [Panama Canal]: Foote, William C.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 1936. Very good.. Eighty-four black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs, each about 8 x 10 inches, many with typed or manuscript captions on verso, plus thirty-two typed documents, some signed. Moderate edge wear, occasional minor marginal chipping to photographs. Mostly minor wear to documents. A striking collection of photographs picturing construction of the Panama Canal during the years of the First World War. Many of the photographs are dated between 1914 and 1916, and almost all capture construction of the Panama Canal, mainly around Dry Dock #1 at the Balboa and Pacific Terminals. Many of the photographs are captioned either typed or in manuscript on the verso, providing valuable information on the settings of these images. Most of the images were taken from an elevated viewpoint, from area towers, offering unusual detail of the construction sites in the Balboa area "before flooding" of the canal, with some images showing the canal "ready to be flooded;" the images taken at ground level also exhibit the sheer size and depth of the project, with human figures dwarfed by the canal walls. A healthy number of images feature local workers of African descent engaged in manual labor on the walls and in the flat bottom of the canal. These workers are managed by a coterie of white subjects. In fact, one of the more striking images speaks volumes about the literal separation between the managers and laborers in the Canal Zone. The photograph is a group shot featuring seventeen white managers standing in the foreground in front of a group of twenty-two Black workers. A sampling of the settings and activity revealed in the captions for the photographs include "Dy Dock #1 -- Entrance," "Placing granite in the hollow quoin -- Dry Dock No. 1, Balboa," "General view of Dry Dock #1 -- from the boom of Unloader Tower," "Progress of concrete in south wall as of Oct. 20, 1914," "Head wall of Dry Dock #1," "Reinforcing around the suction chamber Dry Dock #1," "Dry Dock looking from the head wall west towards the sea," "D.D. excavation looking eastward toward headwall of the dock from the Coffer Dam," "Reinforcement in and around cross culverts at the west and end of Dry Dock #1," "Dry Dock #1 one month after commencing concrete work in the south wall," "Dry Dock No. 1 Pumping Plant -- Erecting 54-inch Check Valves -- Looking west," "General view of construction progress around pump well and discharge culvert -- Dry Dock," "Dry Dock Gate -- South Leaf -- Heel casting after wedges have been placed and rivets driven," "Reinforced concrete pontoons -- Preparing to pour concrete in No. 2 pontoon," and "Placing the last girder on dock gate, Dry Dock No. 1, Balboa." The photographs are accompanied by a group of more than thirty military documents relating to the service of Major William C. Foote in the mid-1930s. Most of the documents concern Major Foote's assignment to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Amador in the Canal Zone in Balboa. Both the photographs and documents were found in a large envelope marked "Personal File Major William C. Foote." Finding the Panama Canal photographs along with Major Foote's later paperwork indicate that he probably acquired the photographs while serving in the Canal Zone and the material stayed together all these years.

Autograph letter signed to Theophilus Parsons, Jr., East Bridgewater, 3 April 1857 by WHITMAN, Ezekiel (1776-1866)

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Autograph letter signed to Theophilus Parsons, Jr., East Bridgewater, 3 April 1857
Author: WHITMAN, Ezekiel (1776-1866)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: One and a quarter pages, 4to. The Massachusetts jurist and congressman writes to Parsons: "Dear Sir: Your favor of the 31st ultimo came duly to hand. It would afford me great pleasure to be able to render any essential aid in the preparation of a biography of Chief Justice Parsons. But I was not personally acquainted with him till he made his appearance at Portland as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, in 1807. I had, however, heard of him, from an early period of my life, as the “giant of the law” IN Massachusetts. He was at the head of his profession, I believe, quite soon after he became a member of it, and so continued until the day of his decease. I know but little of him, except as Chief Justice, presiding at the law terms in the County of Cumberland. I think he never held a nisi prius term there. As chief Justice he was perfectly at his ease, for he was not unconscious of his superior acquirements, not of the deference every one was ready to pay to them. He was uniformly pleasant, and often seemed to be playfully facetious. I have heard many anecdotes of him. Illustrative of his wit, which I presume are yet current and well remembered, and therefore need not be repeated by me. With much esteem. I am Sir, Your obedient, humble servant, EZEKIEL WHITMAN.

The Naked Lunch by Burroughs, William S.

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: The Naked Lunch
Author: Burroughs, William S.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. Second state with the original price of 1,500 France stamped over with the new price of NF 18. In Very Good condition, lacking the dust jacket. Clean text. Binding seems repaired with glue, with glue stains at gutter of front and rear end papers. Wraps show light soiling, a few small chips and light wear. Toning to spine, stain to rear. A lovely copy overall.

Ecclesiastes. The Preacher. by [ Trissel, James ]

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Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Title: Ecclesiastes. The Preacher.
Author: [ Trissel, James ]
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: [Colorado Springs:] The Press at Colorado College 1992 One of forty copies signed by printer James Trissel. Quarter black morocco over gray linen boards, front cover and spine stamped in silver. . Folio. Printed in black and red, with ornaments in shades of gray. A fine copy.

Journal de Micrographie ...., vols. 1 - 9 [4 & 8 absent] by Pelletan, J[ules] (editor)

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books

Title: Journal de Micrographie ...., vols. 1 - 9 [4 & 8 absent]
Author: Pelletan, J[ules] (editor)
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; some modest chafing; occasional marginal notes.
Description: Paris: Bureaux du Journal, 1877 - 1885. First Edition.. Contemporary half leather and marbled paper.. Very good; some modest chafing; occasional marginal notes.. 8vo, I - [4], 368 pp., 3 plates; II - [3] - 524, [12] pp.,5 plates; III - [4], [3] - 548, [2] pp., 11 plates; V - [3] - 516 pp., 22* plates; VI - [4], [3] - 646 pp., 17* plates (including a mounted, full-page, albumen print of Pelletan's 'Continental' microscope - a 'class A' instrument of his own design selling for 600 Francs); VII - [4], [3] - 666 pp., 6 plates; IX - [4]. [1] - 534 pp., 5 plates (plate 1 not bound in - as with other located copies). The asterisk indicating confused numbering of the plates, but all are present. A run of an important journal in its formative years. The contents pages read like a who's who of nineteenth century microscopists writing on all matter of observations, equipment, lenses, improvements, and observations (e.g., vol. 9 contains a number of articles and illustrations on penicillin ferments). The text is illustrated throughout.

Turner on birds: a short and succinct history of the principal birds. . . by Turner, William

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Turner on birds: a short and succinct history of the principal birds. . .
Author: Turner, William
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Cambridge: University Press, 1903. First edition in English.

CARPENTER OF THE SUN by Willard, Nancy

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Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

Title: CARPENTER OF THE SUN
Author: Willard, Nancy
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Liveright, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson "with warm wishes" with charming black penned illustration a delightful face of the sun outlined in red felt marker as balloon on a string held by arm outstretched all observed by a block-stamped Tin Woodsman (on the ffe). Near fine book in better than very good dustjacket.

GREAT WHITE HOPE, THE [L'INSURGÉ] (1971) French petite poster by Boris Grinsson by Boris Grinsson

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Title: GREAT WHITE HOPE, THE [L'INSURGÉ] (1971) French petite poster by Boris Grinsson
Author: Boris Grinsson
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Just About Fine
Description: Twentieth Century Fox. No binding. Just About Fine. [Paris]: Twentieth Century Fox, [1971]. Vintage original 22 x 17 3/4 " (56 x 45 cm.) French petite poster, folded (as issued), JUST ABOUT FINE. Boris Grinsson designed this poster with artwork of James Earl Jones in the role of Jack Johnson.

Pamiati V. A. Dolenka (In Memoriam V. A. Dolenko) by Semenko, Iu. (Iurii)

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Title: Pamiati V. A. Dolenka (In Memoriam V. A. Dolenko)
Author: Semenko, Iu. (Iurii)
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Munich: Logos, 1975. First Edition. Near fine. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-413, [3]; light-blue wraps, printed and ruled in dark-blue; very minor wear to edges, in near fine condition.Iurii Semenko's work was a tribute to his close friend and party colleague Volodymyr Dolenko (1889 - 1971) - leader of the Union of Lands of United Ukraine – Agrarian Party, a smaller Ukrainian emigre political organization, first founded in the DP (displaced persons) camps in Germany in the aftermath of WWII and later carried on into the members' respective countries of ettlement. The book contained articles by and about Dolenko, by several authors, reports of the party's various conventions, and documents from Dolenko's archives.

UNTERSUCHUNG UBER SCHULBUCHER UND LEHRMITTEL IN KENYA UND UGANDA by Wolf, Werner

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Title: UNTERSUCHUNG UBER SCHULBUCHER UND LEHRMITTEL IN KENYA UND UGANDA
Author: Wolf, Werner
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: Berlin: Berichte und Expertisen des Vereins zur Forderung der Bildungshilfe in Wntwicklungslandern, 1966. paper wrappers. small 8vo. paper wrappers. vi, 119, (29) pages. An inquiry into textbooks and educational materials in Kenya and Uganda.

WHAT A BUSINESS MAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PRINTING AND BOOKMAKING

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Title: WHAT A BUSINESS MAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PRINTING AND BOOKMAKING
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: Hammond: W.B. Conkey Co, 1929. cloth. Printing. 8vo. cloth. 130 pages. Fourth edition. Illustrated and including a glossary of technical terms.

That Day in Gordon by ABBOTT, Raymond H.

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Title: That Day in Gordon
Author: ABBOTT, Raymond H.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: NY: Vanguard. 1986. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good.

Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations by AUCHINCLOSS, Louis

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Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Title: Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations
Author: AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.. First edition, first printing (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Adele Auchincloss (unclipped; few small nicks). Very good-fine. 262 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

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