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Kafee Baa Kissaten Kokoku Zuanshu.

Kafee Baa Kissaten Kokoku Zuanshu. by AYAO, Yamano

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Seller: Ursus Books
Title
Kafee Baa Kissaten Kokoku Zuanshu.
Author
AYAO, Yamano
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1930. AYAO, Yamano. Kafee Baa Kissaten Kokoku Zuanshu. 48 pp., illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white illustrations and some photomontage. Folio, 300 x 225 mm., bound in publisher's boards in the original cardboard portfolio. Tokyo: Seibundo, 1930. A collection of designs by the important twentieth-century Japanese decorator/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 between the wars. Some browning, overall a very good copy of a rare book. Not listed in OCLC.
Il Libro del Cortegiano del conte Baldassar Castiglione

Il Libro del Cortegiano del conte Baldassar Castiglione by Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)

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Title
Il Libro del Cortegiano del conte Baldassar Castiglione
Author
Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)
Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
4 books in 2 volumes: [8]+xvi+255 pages with frontispiece; 205 pages with index and errata. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4) bound in stiff wrappers with labels to spines and deckle edges. This edition not in Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana; however, there are a number of listings for this title in the bibliography (4315 through 4330), listing 16 editions of various dates and publishers. First published in 1528.Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novilara was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author. He was born into an illustrious Lombard family at Casatico, near Mantua. In 1494, at the age of sixteen, Castiglione began his humanist studies in Milan, which would eventually form his future writings. However, in 1499, after the death of his father, Castiglione left his studies and Milan to succeed his father as the head of their noble family. Soon his duties seem to have included representative offices for the Gonzaga court. For the Gonzaga he traveled quite often; during one of his missions to Rome, he met Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino. Urbino was at that time the most refined and elegant among Italian courts, a meeting point of culture ably directed and managed by duchess Elisabetta Gonzaga and her sister-in-law Maria Emilia Pia. The most constant guests included: Pietro Bembo, Giuliano de' Medici, Cardinal Bibbiena, Ottaviano and Federigo Fregoso, and Cesare Gonzaga, a cousin of both Castiglione and the duke. The hosts and guests organized intellectual competitions which resulted in an interesting, stimulating cultural life producing brilliant literary activity. Castiglione wrote about his works and of those of other guests in letters to other princes, maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy, though in a literary form. In 1516, Castiglione was back in Mantua, where he married Ippolita Torelli, descendant of another ancient noble family; two passionate letters he wrote to her, expressing deep sentiment, have survived, but she unfortunately died only four years later. At that time Castiglione was in Rome again as an ambassador, this time for the Duke of Mantua. In 1521 Pope Leo X conceded to him the tonsura (first sacerdotal ceremony), and thereupon began Castiglione's second, ecclesiastical career.In 1528, the year before his death, the book by which he is most famous, The Book of the Courtier (Il Libro del Cortegiano), was published in Venice by the Aldine Press run by Andrea d'Asolo, father-in-law of Aldus Manutius. The book is based on a nostalgic recreation of Castiglione's experience at the court of Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro of Urbino at the turn of the sixteenth century. It describes the ideal court and courtier, going into great detail about the philosophical and cultured and lively conversations that occurred at Urbino, presided over by Elisabetta Gonzaga. Castiglione himself does not contribute to the discussion, the book is his tribute to his friendship with the participants of the discussion, all of whom went on to have important positions. The Book of the Courtier caught the "spirit of the times" and was soon translated into Spanish, German, French, and English. One hundred and eight editions were published between 1528 and 1616 alone. (Pietro Aretino's La cortigiana is a parody of this famous work.) Castiglione's depiction of how the ideal gentleman should be educated and behave remained, for better or for worse, the touchstone for all the upper classes of Europe for next five centuries. The work on chess is in the second volume of this work.Condition:Old stamps to title of volume two and first un-numbered page of volume one, Spine ends chipped with loss to heal, corners bumped, wrappers rubbed else a good copy of scarce title.
Valiant Dust (First UK Edition, inscribed)

Valiant Dust (First UK Edition, inscribed) by P.C. [Percival Christopher] Wren

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Title
Valiant Dust (First UK Edition, inscribed)
Author
P.C. [Percival Christopher] Wren
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., 1932. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on his coat of arms bookplate, affixed on the front pastedown: "To Mrs. D.O. Williams / with the author's regards / Wren." Moderate spine lean and moderate foxing to the fore-edges outer page margins, else About Very Good in a like dust jacket. Jacket is uniformly soiled on the spine and rear panel, with some minor chipping at the extremities, one short closed tear, and some cellotape reinforcements on the verso.
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit by [Arion Press] Canetti, Elias; J.A. Underwood, translator from German; Karl Bissinger, photographs; William T.Wiley, etchings; Ferdinand Protzman, afterword

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The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
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[Arion Press] Canetti, Elias; J.A. Underwood, translator from German; Karl Bissinger, photographs; William T.Wiley, etchings; Ferdinand Protzman, afterword
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 156 of 350 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies hors de commerce. Signed by Karl Bissinger under his photograph facing page 117 and signed by William Wiley on the mounted etching facing page 102. This elegant book compiled 29 photographs taken in Marrakech and vicinity by Bissinger in late 1949 while on assignment for a travel feature published by Flair magazine in February 1950. The six etchings by Wiley were made to illustrate scenes from this book. The book was designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem. It is bound in illustrated red paper covers with a black cloth spine. Printed on Mohawk Superfine paper for the text and photographs, Rives Lightweight for the etchings and Fabriano Ingres for the leaves mounted with the prints. The type is Goudy Old Style. Lacking the called for slipcase. In fine condition. Measures 8.25 x 11 inches. 123 pages plus colophon. PRI/111924.
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A Set of Die-cut Theater Figures by Anonymous

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A Set of Die-cut Theater Figures
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Anonymous
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
S. l.: s. n., 1900. Good. A set of 14 paper-and-card stock, die-cut figures, n. d. (late 19th- / early 20th- century); 11 thin pieces of wire to attach to verso and move the figures upright; various sizes, approximately 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 and smaller; lithographed paper pasted on carrd stock backing; small loss of paper to base of a few of the figures; one of them with a slight crack through middle; a bit of age-toning; in good to very good condition. A lovely theater play set, possibly assembled at home by the previous owner, it projected quite the Shakespearean air and included 12 characters and two props - a stove, with food cooking, and a grave marker in the shape of a cross.
Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, Passed at the Session of 1857, In the Eighty-first Year of Independence with an Appendix

Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, Passed at the Session of 1857, In the Eighty-first Year of Independence with an Appendix

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Title
Laws of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, Passed at the Session of 1857, In the Eighty-first Year of Independence with an Appendix
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Harrisburg: A. Boyd Hamilton, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. 1857 edition. xlv, 853pp. Rebound in tan buckram with "Maine State Library" stamped on spine tail, new endpapers. Page edges dampstained, library date stamped on rear fly, about very good.
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Marlene Tseng Yu: Forces of Nature IV - 40 Years of Creation by Yu, Stephanie (editor)

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Marlene Tseng Yu: Forces of Nature IV - 40 Years of Creation
Author
Yu, Stephanie (editor)
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Prague: National Gallery in Prague, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. Color-pictorial boards with yellow lettering; 272 pp. with color images throughout. Two Yu postcards and a press release about the book laid in. Includes a preface by Tomas Vlcek (in Czech and English), an artist's statement, bio/resume, photos of the artist, and a list of the painting series. The main body of the catalogue is paintings from the 1960s to the 2000s, divided by decade. The works are accompanied by comments by art experts in their own languages: English, French, Chinese, Korean, etc. Catalogue from the exhibition held in Prague February to May 2008.
III Bienal De Arte Picotorico Cerveceria National De Panama

III Bienal De Arte Picotorico Cerveceria National De Panama by Arias, Alfredo L.

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III Bienal De Arte Picotorico Cerveceria National De Panama
Author
Arias, Alfredo L.
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine
Description
Panama City: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 86 pages. 10 x 9". Host of color plates -- photographs of excellent quality. Modern Panamian art, list of artists with biographies. Text in Spanish.
Gut Symmetries

Gut Symmetries by WINTERSON, Jeanette

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Title
Gut Symmetries
Author
WINTERSON, Jeanette
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A novel from the author of "Sexing the Cherry" and "Written on the Body." A fine unread copy in printed wrappers.

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