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THE LIFE AND WORKS by (BINDINGS - CHIVERS). TENNYSON, LORD ALFRED

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Title: THE LIFE AND WORKS
Author: (BINDINGS - CHIVERS). TENNYSON, LORD ALFRED
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Macmillan and Co, 1898-99. One of 1,050 copies of the Edition de Luxe. 235 x 158 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 12 volumes.. SUPERB LIGHT GREEN ART NOUVEAU "VELLUCENT" BINDING BY CEDRIC CHIVERS OF BATH (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers framed by delicately tooled gilt and by painted vines, center panel of upper cover of each volume with different stylized flowers--roses, daisies, lilies, tulips, and others--painted in pastel tones accented with gilt circlets and with a quote from Tennyson lettered in gilt, smooth spines similarly framed and with a single stalk of the featured flower beneath the painted name of the poet and the volume number, turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, TOP EDGES GILT AND DELICATELY GAUFFERED, other edges untrimmed (hinges reinforced). In the original (slightly worn) felt-lined green cloth slipcases. With 12 plates (four featuring the poet's homes, the rest portraits of him), all with tissue guards. With three facsimiles of the author's writing. Wise, Collected Editions 18. One volume with half-inch crack to head of front joint, the text with isolated trivial spots of foxing, but AN OUTSTANDING SET--clean, fresh, and bright internally, and THE LOVELY BINDINGS REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED. With the graceful flowers on its dozen spines creating a broad and splendid garden on the shelf, this is a particularly lovely example of Chivers' "vellucent" bindings. Cedric Chivers (1853-1929) established binding premises in his native Bath after an inspiring visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878. A short time later, after hearing a lecture by Cyril Davenport on the 18th century painted vellum bindings of Edwards of Halifax, he began producing his own work in this tradition, creating what he called the "vellucent" binding. The innovative part of these bindings, as seen here, was accomplished by rendering vellum transparent, then placing it over painted pieces of paper, thereby protecting the surface of the paper from soiling and abrasion. Prideaux says that the process achieves the effect of enriched enamel, and that is certainly the case here. The binding designs in the present set are directly tied to the contents: the flowers that bedeck the covers and spines are paired with quotes from the Poet Laureate's works, often lines mentioning the bloom on display. To keep this garden in good repair, Chivers provided slipcases, specially constructed with a little "window" on the back that allows the reader to push the volume gently out of the case, forestalling wear and tear to the spine ends. The slipcases also function to prevent the splaying that so commonly afflicts vellum bindings. These precautions, combined with careful and infrequent use, have kept the bindings in a state very close to their original condition. The text here is Macmillan's deluxe edition of Tennyson's works, with the first four volumes containing the definitive memoir by his son, Hallam, and the remaining eight books covering the father's poetry. Handsomely printed on fine paper, this set, in publisher's cloth, sold at time of publication for a princely six guineas (and volumes could not be purchased separately). It was entirely worthy of the splurge on these thoughtful and appropriate bindings. We have had a substantial number of vellucent bindings over the years, many of them distinctive and striking, but this is the most powerful and beautiful example we've ever offered for sale..

Dan tai yu an 丹臺玉案 [The Red Platform and the Jade Desk] by SUN, Wenyin 孫文胤

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Title: Dan tai yu an 丹臺玉案 [The Red Platform and the Jade Desk]
Author: SUN, Wenyin 孫文胤
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 1660. (title at the beginning of the text) [or] Yi xue ru men dan tai yu an 醫學入門 [An Introduction to Medicine: The Red Platform and the Jade Desk] (title on cover page). 73 woodcut illus. Six juan in six vols. 8vo, bamboo paper (a few leaves missing from Preface in the first vol.), new wrappers, new stitching. [China]: Wu feng lou 五鳳樓, [1660]. Second edition of this influential medical work. “The book assembles material from [Huangdi] neijing [黃帝]內經 [The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon], Nanjing 難經 [The Classic of Difficult Issues] and Zhang Zhongjing 張仲景, Liu Hejian 劉河間, Zhu Danxi 朱丹溪, and Li Dongyuan 李東垣, excerpting their essentials and deleting the obtuse and contradictory parts” (Wang, p. 103). Our work contains theoretical discussions as well as recipes. The section on women’s medicine, for example, opens with an abstract discussion of the origin of the male in the qian trigram of the Yijing 易經 [Change Classic] and of the female in the kun trigram. The discussion then becomes more concrete, with a description of the stages of pregnancy. This is followed with a note on taking the pulse, followed in turn by a list of prescriptions. One prescription is for a “liquid remedy for adjusting the menses and stabilizing the blood. It is to be administered when the color of the menstrual discharge is light and it is thick and sticky, accompanied by a pain in the abdomen.” This recipe contains ten ingredients, including red tangerine peel, peeled herbaceous peony root, and the root of the three-nerved spicebush. There are also lists of medications and foodstuffs that women should not ingest when pregnant. For example, eating crab might lead to transverse presentation of the fetus. Birth with transverse presentation is separately covered in a note. Post-natal issues are covered as well, including an outbreak of malaria (as can happen in the seventh and eighth lunar months, we read), post-natal cold damage disease, and incessant bleeding. Pediatric medicine is discussed after gynecology, in the last volume of the work. As with the section on gynecology, this section starts with a general discussion: “The illnesses of men and women can be ascertained by asking questions,” but “a small child, while still being carried in the arms, might suffer but not be able to express it.” Alternative methods were necessary, such as observing the child’s face. An illustration of a child’s face with the different parts marked accompanies the discussion. As with gynecology, numerous prescriptions are also listed in the area of pediatrics. Sun Wenyin was from Xiuning in Anhui in central China. Sickly as a child, he read the Change Classic and recited classical Chinese poetry, paying considerable attention to how to nurture a healthy life. Sun advocated that nutrition should be the first priority, with prescription medications coming second (Ding & Wu, p. 54). Regarding the writing and printing history of our book, Sun writes in the Preface that he had worked on collecting material for the book for 20 years. Then, “the book was finished in the bingzi year of the Ming [1636]; I printed it [in 1638, judging by the dates of the Prefaces to the first edition] and showed my friends of a similar inclination. After the destruction of war that accompanied the change of the cauldrons [i.e., the Manchu conquest of the Ming], only one or two blocks remained.” The blocks thus had to be re-carved, creating a second edition of the work. Our copy appears to be missing a few leaves of the Preface, which ends mid-sentence and without a date. The Princeton University copy is from the same edition, and it is dated to 1660 (Shunzhi 17). Our book does not observe the taboo for the character xuan 玄, so we know that it must have been printed before 1661, when the Kangxi emperor Xuanye 玄燁 (r. 1661-1722) ascended to the throne. Very good set, occasional stains and split fore-edge folds, preserved in a new cloth-backed dropbox. ❧ Ding Qing’ai 丁青艾 & Wu Housheng 伍后胜, eds., Yangsheng baijian da cidian 养生保健大辞典 (Dalian: Dalian chubanshe, 1997); Wang Peng, Anhui Zhongyi guji zongmu tiyao 安徽中醫古籍總目提要 (Hefei: Anhui kexue jishi chubanshe, 2021).

The Gallery by BURNS, John Horne

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Title: The Gallery
Author: BURNS, John Horne
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: A fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket
Description: New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1947). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Burns to his literary agent, Helen Strauss: "For Helen Strauss the best literary agent in the world. Without her understanding this just wouldn't have been possible. Affectionately, John Horne Burns, New York, 14 July 1947". A gracious inscription to his literary agent, who had tried desperately to find a publisher for The Gallery. However, as David Margolick put it in his biography of Burns, "Somewhere between a dozen and a dozen and a half publishers ultimately rejected The Gallery . . . Even Helen Strauss, the hard-boiled New York literary agent Burns had hired in late September [1946], couldn't pull off a sale." As it happened, Burns found a publisher through the casual intercession of his friend Beulah Hagen, the assistant to Cass Canfield, the President of Harper and Brothers. Hagen mentioned the book to Frank MacGregor, one of Harper's editors, who recommended the book to Canfield. "‘I said I had this book that was quite fascinating, but it was about war and war conditions. And I described the manuscript, I guess enthusiastically, and I said, "Well, what do I do with it, Cass?' And he said, "You publish it, of course.' Within two weeks Harders had accepted it. Three publishers - Vanguard, Viking, and Harpers - eventually vied for the book. Harpers won out, partly because, convinced it had a major new talent on its hands, it promised to buy Burns's next two novels as well." - David Margolick, Dreadful. The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns. (N.Y.: Other Press, 2013), pp. 196-197. In his introduction to the NYRB reissue of The Gallery, Paul Fussell writes: "The Gallery is an extraordinary contribution to American literature. Its structure is inventive and its prose is memorably energetic. There is nothing like it, and it thoroughly deserved the praise lavished on it in 1947, when it was one of the earliest works of fiction generated by the war just concluded. Over the years readers as varied as Edmund Wilson, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal have found themselves excited by this book, one which is undeniably an oddity produced by an undeniably odd author motivated by rare moral convictions." - Introduction to The Gallery (N. Y.: NYRB, 2004), p. vii. Signed or inscribed copies of The Gallery are rare. A fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. A fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket.

The Exorcist (Original oversize double weight still photograph from the 1972 film) by William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (novel, screenwriter); Josh Weiner (photographer)l;

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Title: The Exorcist (Original oversize double weight still photograph from the 1972 film)
Author: William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (novel, screenwriter); Josh Weiner (photographer)l;
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image, showing Max von Sydow looming above-and seemingly beyond-a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic, with a strangeness and depth supplied by Burstyn and Sydow that only increases with repeated viewings. Another distinction of "The Exorcist" was that it walked away with 2 Oscars (including Best Screenplay for Blatty), along with 8 nominations (including Best Picture), a feat nearly unheard for a horror film. 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine.

THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES by (WHISTLER, James)

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Title: THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES
Author: (WHISTLER, James)
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: (WHISTLER, James) THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. 8vo. Cloth spine, boards. (xvi), 340 pag A later printing of one of Whistler's best known books. Light foxing to endpapers, else very good.

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