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STORIES REVIVED. In Three Volumes

STORIES REVIVED. In Three Volumes by James, Henry

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Title
STORIES REVIVED. In Three Volumes
Author
James, Henry
Seller
Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1885. [the fine Currie / Sendak copy] London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. 2 pp undated Vol III ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. These three volumes consist of fourteen tales here "revived," that James had written some years earlier -- most from the 1870s, with some from the 1860s. Eight of them had been collected in America, either in A PASSIONATE PILGRIM (1875) or in THE AUTHOR OF BELTRAFFIO (1885, three months earlier). The other six appear here in book form for the first time: "A Day of Days," "A Landscape Painter," "Rose-Agathe," "Poor Richard," "Master Eustace" and "A Most Extraordinary Case." As James points out in his Vol I "Notice," "... these earlier stories have been in every case minutely revised and corrected -- many passages being wholly rewritten." This set is in Supino's binding "B" (E&L's binding "b"), with the "V" larger than the "OL" on the spines, and with blue mosaic-patterned endpapers (no known priority between the two bindings). These volumes are remarkably bright, and except for a trace of rubbing at some edges, they are FINE (but see the note about bookplates below). Supino 27.2.0; Edel & Laurence A27a; Blanck 10573; Sadleir 1290. Provenance: First, on the verso of the front free endpaper of all three volumes is the bookplate of Barton Wood Currie (1877-1962), the noted journalist, book collector, and author (including FISHERS OF BOOKS, his 1931 book about his own bibliomania). His book-collecting included a close relationship with Dr. Rosenbach -- for example, he bought from Rosenbach many Joseph Conrad manuscripts which Rosenbach had acquired at the John Quinn sale. (A Currie provenance always carries with it the minor negative that he applied his bookplates with a healthy amount of old mucilage glue, which seeped out around the edges and bled through the leaf.) The second provenance is that this set is from the personal library of author Maurice Sendak: he did not often sign or affix bookplates (and none is here), but included with this set is a certificate from the auction house identifying this as Lot 48 in the February 2023 sale of Sendak's library -- "sold on behalf of the Rosenbach Museum.
The Huddersfield College Magazine, Volume VIII

The Huddersfield College Magazine, Volume VIII by William John Clarke Miller (1832-19030 and John Watkinson Editors

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Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
Title
The Huddersfield College Magazine, Volume VIII
Author
William John Clarke Miller (1832-19030 and John Watkinson Editors
Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
320 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Subscription to The New Chess Magazine, which became the publication of the British Chess Magazine laid in. Volume 8. (Betts: 7-15) First edition.The Huddersfield College Magazine chess section was superseded by the British Chess Magazine after 1880 with no more published. First published as volume one in October 1872 and issued monthly until September 1880, it was edited by W J C Miller from October 1872 to June 1876 and John Watkinson from July 1876 until 1880. One of the earlier chess magazine published.Condition:Heavily rubbed at edges, corners bumped and rubbed through, damaged to front hinge, soiled, some occasional internal soiling, front inner hinge cracked. Over all a good copy of a scarce chess item
Chu^to^ ENPITSUGA TEHON Dai Isshu^

Chu^to^ ENPITSUGA TEHON Dai Isshu^ by [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist

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Chu^to^ ENPITSUGA TEHON Dai Isshu^
Author
[DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist
Seller
Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1906. [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist. Chu^to^ ENPITSUGA TEHON Dai Isshu^. To^kyo^, Yoshikawa Ko^bunkan, Meiji 39 [1906]. 2nd printing. Oblong 8vo., wrappers. 18.4 x 26 cm. Containing 10 sheets of sumi-e woodcut reproducing pencil sketches by Asai Chu^ and meant to serve as a guide for secondary students in their drawing classes. The Japanese Education Ministry, the Monbusho^, had commissioned Asai Chu^, one of the foremost artists and educators of the day to create a series of such handbooks for schools. This is the first volume. This brief notice is not the place to expand but it should be noted that this series represents an important milestone in the see-saw cultural battle being waged between artistic traditionalists and "modern" Western-style artists. The fact that the Asai Chu^ strove to familiarize students with the use of the pencil rather than the brush is significant in that context. Asai, himself, actually, though an accomplished Western-style oil painter who had studied in France was also a skilled traditional painter and a top-rank graphic designer, as well. It appears he believed in giving students all the tools, all the media, available for their expression. His textbook series are rightly famous though almost never found, being fragile to begin with and meant to be used by students. This volume is in near fine condition. It should also be noted that Yoshikawa Ko^bunkan was a famous house, capable of great skill in woodblock printing projects.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY by BIERCE, Ambrose

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Title
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
Author
BIERCE, Ambrose
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase
Description
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel including 20 part-page woodcuts hand-colored by pochoir at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
THE HAIRY QUEENS

THE HAIRY QUEENS by HIGHGATE, Keith

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Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Title
THE HAIRY QUEENS
Author
HIGHGATE, Keith
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
n.p.: Continental Classics, 1968. Very good.. Erotic sleaze with preface warning that the "sex escapades" within are suitable for "the graduate student" only. Subject matter involves "actual types of sexual perversion rampant on the London scene of today," which is to say, 1968. Continental Classics #CC-186. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Pale blue printed wraps with orange Eiffel Tower logo. Minor edgewear and spine crease; faint rubbing/soil. Oval sticker remmant to front cover. Very good. 160 pages.
Pre-Dynastic Cemetery at El Mahasna (Thirty-First Memoir of The Egypt Exploration Fund)

Pre-Dynastic Cemetery at El Mahasna (Thirty-First Memoir of The Egypt Exploration Fund) by Ayrton, Edward R. and W. L. S. Loat

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Title
Pre-Dynastic Cemetery at El Mahasna (Thirty-First Memoir of The Egypt Exploration Fund)
Author
Ayrton, Edward R. and W. L. S. Loat
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g
Description
London: Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. g. Folio. VIII, 39, [3]pp (Text), XXXVIIIpp (Plates). Half cloth over printed paper covered boards. Remarkable work on the 1908-9 season in which Ayrton, in collaboration with W. L. S. Loat, excavated the Pre-dynastic cemetery of El-Mahasna. It is exquisitely illustrated with 38 b/w plates, plans and charts. Some rubbing and sunning along edges of binding. Spine partly chipped. Ex-library copy with library stamps on inside of front cover. Binding in overall poor to fair, interior in good+ to very good condition.
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The Carpenter August 1938

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Title
The Carpenter August 1938
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: United Brotherhood of Carp, 1938. Softcover. Very Good. First thus. Very good in wrappers. Slight damage to staple binding, text and covers still in tact, soiled covers and tilt page, clean text.

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