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[In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs] by [DECORATIVE ARTS]

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Title: [In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]
Author: [DECORATIVE ARTS]
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: [Tokyo]: [Japan Art Society], [1905]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs] An Aesthetic Window into Japanese Decorative Tradition [DECORATIVE ARTS]. [In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]. [Tokyo: Japan Art Society, 37th Year of the Meiji (1905)]. Octavo (9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in; 242 x 140 mm). 154 pp. A unique scrapbook of over 500 charcoal rubbings on rice paper of Japanese miniature comb and hairpin (koagi) patterns tipped-in to the pages of three issues of Japanese Art Society Reports bound together. The original collector has crossed-out the original titles, publisher, etc., and provided their own manuscript title in black marking pen. Each page has two rubbed patterns, each pattern with upper and lower views of each comb, and the rubbings are remarkably sharp with even small details very clear. Publisher's original string-bound wrappers with losses but the integrity of interior of the book remains complete and intact. Early auction clipping for this item ("Kushi Hinagata") mounted to the inside of the rear (Japanese front) cover. Housed in a green silk drop-back box with traditional Japanese clasps with paper label on spine, lettered in Japanese. This kind of vernacular, studio-generated scrapbook - mixing printed art society documents with hundreds of individually made rubbings - is exceptionally rare. It offers not only an aesthetic window into Japanese decorative tradition but also a unique document of private study and preservation by an anonymous mid-century compiler. The art of Japanese hair decoration, or kushi, dates back hundreds of years and has rich and varied heritage. As with much Eastern art it served to "beautify items of everyday use, to make the commonplace extraordinary [and] to tell of the life and status of the wearers, who were geisha, courtesans, court ladies, and housewives" (Ziesnitz and Momoko, Combs and Hairpins, Daruma: Japanese Art and Antique Magazine, Summer 2002). And, indeed, this work is a testament to the beautiful and elegant diversity of this Japanese decorative art. A curious, attractive and visually arresting book, one with certain aesthetic merit, given the obsessive care and attention necessary to compile such a volume which, with its use of a marking pen, dates this compilation to sometime post-1952, the year that marking pens were introduced. A valuable historical, cultural, and artistic record as well as an object that, as much as its subject, renders the commonplace extraordinary, and takes its place along side of Hokusai's classic Imayo Kushi Hinagata (1823) as a key reference. "Women have always adorned themselves but perhaps none so subtly as the Japanese. You can reproduce the old hairstyles seen in painting and sculpture but their hair ornaments remind us of the coiffures on which they were worn. In other words, hair ornaments are tangible souvenirs of ancient hairstyles. "Hair ornaments were not mere accessories to feminine coiffure and attire. In keeping with the Japanese urge to beautify items of everyday use, to make the commonplace extraordinary, they were turned into artistic objects mirroring cultural and and social history. They tell of the life and status of their wearers, who were geisha, courtesans, court ladies, and housewives. "They give a glimpse of the exceptional beauty of Japanese art..." (Ziesnitz, Sharon. Combs and Hairpins. Daruma 35, vol. 9, No. 3, Summer 2002).

Rehnquist Court Justices Sign An Oversized Color Photograph by (REHNQUIST SUPREME COURT)

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.

Title: Rehnquist Court Justices Sign An Oversized Color Photograph
Author: (REHNQUIST SUPREME COURT)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: REHNQUIST COURT (1986-2005). The Rehnquist Court was the period in the Supreme Court when William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice, lasting until his death in 2005. This Court often gave more power to the states through its rulings, promoting a policy of New Federalism. The Rehnquist Court is considered to be a relatively conservative court, with four of the justices during this court, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas, causing a shift towards the right. This court also holds the longest stretch where the same nine justices served together, serving eleven years from 1994 to 2005. This court consisted of the following judges: William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, William J. Brennan Jr., Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell Jr., John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer.PS. 15 x 13 . c. 1986-1987. Washington, D. C. A photograph of the Rehnquist Court signed by the 9 justices Thurgood Marshall, W J Brennan Jr, William H Rehnquist, Byron R. White, Harry A. Blackmun, Sandra D OConnor, Lewis F. Powell Jr, John Paul Stevens, and Antonin Scalia along the bottom margin of the photo. This photo pictures the original nine judges of the Rehnquist Court, having to be taken and signed between 1986 and 1987 as a result of Powell retiring in 1987. This photograph is in very fine condition and is professionally framed.

Street and Bridge at Simoda by HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885)

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Title: Street and Bridge at Simoda
Author: HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885)
Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam & Company, 1856. Tinted lithograph mounted on support sheet with printed letters as issued with small stab holes where previously bound. A finely observed street scene at Shimoda, Japan from Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition based on Wilhelm Heine's drawings during Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan, showing the newly accessible treaty port through its built environment, local movement, and everyday encounters. Heine's view presents a street near the gate at Shimoda, in Izu Province, shortly after the port's opening to American vessels under the Treaty of Kanagawa. The scene is organized around a small arched stone bridge with pale balustrades, set before a shrine approach marked by a large torii, stone lanterns, thatched and tiled buildings, and tall windswept trees. The composition balances architectural record with social observation, giving equal attention to the cut-stone bridge, the street's raised central path, the houses lining the road, and the figures who animate the foreground. At right, two bearers carry a traveller in a kago, the enclosed palanquin used in Japan where wheeled carriages were not part of ordinary travel. In the foreground, adults and children gather around a seated figure, likely an artist drawing in the street, while other figures pass across the bridge or stand beneath the torii. These small groups give the print a sense of immediacy: Shimoda appears as a functioning town observed at close range. Wilhelm Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant-folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year a second volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, among the best lithographers in the United States at that time. Bennett, p.53; McGrath American Color Plate Books 123.

17th century coin purse by Anon.

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Title: 17th century coin purse
Author: Anon.
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Overall in very good condition (seemingly only having received light use); thread tarnished in spots; margin thread partially sp
Description: Late 17th century. Overall in very good condition (seemingly only having received light use); thread tarnished in spots; margin thread partially split along part of one edge of one inner compartment. . Rectangular envelope form, meas. appx. 9 x 11 cm. Heavy raised "gold" thread embroidered decoration (front only) against a leather background within a plain border of equally heavy green thread that seals the edges; a small, center fold, front hook clasp. The purse is lined in a pale rosé colored leather with three inner compartments, each with a pierced and blindstamped leather flap. Remarkable survival; most likely of Italian origin.

[CONCRETE POET'S AUTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1970-1971]. Lieferbare multiples, Mappen, Bücher, Kataloge, Plakate by Ulrichs, Timm

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Title: [CONCRETE POET'S AUTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1970-1971]. Lieferbare multiples, Mappen, Bücher, Kataloge, Plakate
Author: Ulrichs, Timm
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Hannover: Totalkunstbetrieb Timm Ulrichs, 3 Hannover 1, Postfach 6043, 1971. Very good. 2 mimeograph sheets (295 x 210) printed in blue, folded twice (vertically and horizontally). Fading along fold, slightly age-toned). Preserved in a mylar sleeve. THE EXTREMELY RARE MIMEOGRAPH AUTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AN ACCLAIMED PIONEER OF CONCRETE POETRY, NOT IN KVK OR WORLDCAT. This mimeographed list is one of the EARLIEST bibliographies of Ulrichs' graphic work, compiled (and originally typed?) by the artist himself as a vehicle of the sale of his concrete poetry, and remains of the greatest interest to Ulrichs scholars and studentst. This "Liste" does not appear to have been reprinted or reproduced in any form. We have handled Ulrichs' "List 2" and the present list, issued sometime afterwards, differs significantly from it. In our copy, five items are marked with a red arrow in red ink, likely notes concerning sales or availability. In a conscious (and characteristic) gesture of rejection, Urichs completely withdrew from the art market in the 1970s, and thus the present leaflet would have been rendered obsolete within only a few years. Why was it saved? If Ulrichs ever compiled a separate "Liste" that preceded this one, we have been unable to locate a copy of it. Ulrichs' concrete and visual poetry are of real significance in avant-garde art in the 60s and 70s, and yet his entire oeuvre is not completely known. The present document, which dates from ca. 1971, certainly broadens our understanding of his earliest graphic work, and how Ulrichs sought to sustain himself as an artist while remaining "outside" the art market. The descriptions are extremely detailed (with asking prices) and "neu" works are so indicated. Valuable and otherwise unknown information is given; for instance, Ulrichs states that copies of his "Beschriebene Blatter: kurze Prozesse totaler Poesie & totalen Theaters" are available "FREE with large orders (as long as supply lasts)." -- NB: there is a copy of Ulrichs' "Beschriebene Blatter" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library. Ulrichs' work is widely respected as an "artist's artist." Born in Berlin in 1940, Ulrichs has created concrete poetry, staged performances and "actions," and made object art of a unusually broad array of media. In bestowing the 2020 Käthe Kollwitz Prize, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin gave the following statement: "Ulrichs is an artist, former university teacher, and critical observer of the scene, who has lived a non-conformist existence outside of the mainstream and the art market. His political action serves as an example to a younger generation." (Source: ARTFORUM 7/4/2020).

Facts Regarding the Recent Opening to White Settlement of Crow Creek Reservation in Dakota by Indian Rights Association

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Title: Facts Regarding the Recent Opening to White Settlement of Crow Creek Reservation in Dakota
Author: Indian Rights Association
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: Indian Rights Association, [ca. 1880s]. 8vo, self wrappers. 12 pp., errata slip affixed to head of p. 1. CONDITION: Good, 2" separation at upper spine, small pen mark in lower margin of p. 1, old vertical crease throughout. An Indian Rights Association pamphlet reproducing a letter by Prof. C. C. Painter, the representative of the IRA at Washington, addressing a "grave and pitiable" state of affairs concerning the Crow Creek and Winnebago Indian Reservations: "Three hundred thousand acres of land has been snatched from peaceable and well-disposed Indians, and without compensation to them has been opened to occupancy by the whites." Following a failed attempt by Secretary of the Interior Henry M. Teller to obtain a cession of some eleven million acres from the Sioux, President Chester Arthur issued an Executive Order in February of 1885 (within days of the close of his administration) that threw open for public settlement more than half of the Crow Creek and Winnebago Reservations-resulting in numerous settlers flocking to the lands. Previously, the tract was recognized by the executive power as a treaty reservation. In this pamphlet, the IRA deems the hasty order-which allows no time for protest or examination-to be iniquitous and calls for the act to be suspended until its validity has been assessed by the proper authorities. Painter's letter from 1885 contextualizes and details the order, which he criticizes as "unjust, reckless, ill-advised," noting that it "must result in infinite damage" to the Indians. The letter is followed by a 2 pp. statement of facts and a 5 pp. opinion section penned by Henry S. Pancoast, Chairman of Committee on Law of the IRA. Both texts concern the history of the Crow Creek and Winnebago Reservations dating back to the 1860s and the Treaty of 1868.

Catalogue of Clydesdale Horses, Property of J. & C. Huston, Importers and Breeders, Blandinsville, Ill

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Title: Catalogue of Clydesdale Horses, Property of J. & C. Huston, Importers and Breeders, Blandinsville, Ill
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: Bloomington: The Pantagraph Stock-Printing Establishment, 1883. Softcover. 8vo (9" x 6"), printed blue wrappers. 30 pp., 2 lithographic illus. CONDITION: Good, covers toned with some soiling, some browning to title page, occasional old folds. Includes a "History of the Clydesdale horse" by James M. Hyatt and a descriptive list of various stallions and mares.

The infant's library. Book I.

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Title: The infant's library. Book I.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: London: John Marshall, 1808. Miniature book (51 x 45 mm.), pp. 63; woodcut illustrations; printed self wrappers (upper cover unevenly darkened); top edge closely trimmed occasionally affecting running title and page number, else very good and sound. The first of a series of 16 volumes, this consisting of an illustrated alphabet. See Bondy, pp. 59-60 and Spielmann 209.

LOUDER AND FUNNIER by Wodehouse, P. G.

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Title: LOUDER AND FUNNIER
Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: LOUDER AND FUNNIER, Faber & Faber, 1932, first edition, some light soiling to the spine, else just about fine in like bright second issue non pictorial dust-wrapper. A reworking of the twenty essays published in Vanity Fair.

Spalding's Official Base Ball Record, 1909. by Foster, John B. (Editor)

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Title: Spalding's Official Base Ball Record, 1909.
Author: Foster, John B. (Editor)
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: American Sports Publishing Co.,, 1909 Publisher's red, white and blue pictorial wrappers, with batter to front wrapper. Very good, with very shallow chipping to spine ends, some nicks to spine, and some wear to wrapper edges including a small closed tear to top edge of front panel. Overall, a very clean copy, with no noticeable nicks or tears to pages. This guide looks back on the 1908 baseball season, which saw the Chicago Cubs defeat Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers four games to one to win the World Series. Among the guide's photos are one of Cobb sliding back to first in the World Series (verso of p. 13), and another of Honus Wagner as the NL batting champion (verso of p. 14). Notably, this issue contains an announcement of baseball giant and Spalding editor Henry Chadwick's death and a corresponding portrait photo. Spalding's Official Base Ball Record was published from 1908 to 1924 (from 1926 to 1932, the publication's name was changed to the Little Red Book). The first issue was edited by the "Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick. The legendary baseball figure passed away in 1908, and longtime sportswriter John B. Foster took over editorial duties. The preface to the 1909 issue includes a description of the Record guide and Spalding's aims in producing it: "While the Record is primarily a statistical resume of the past season in the professional arena, it also contains a wealth of information that has heretofore been practically inaccessible to Base Ball lovers, and with the addition of new records and previously unchronicled events, that will be compiled from year to year, it is the ambition of the publishers to attain for the Record in its field the same eminence that is now occupied by the Spalding Guide as the recognized authority on the National Game.". First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good.

Adventures in California of Zakahar Tchitchinoff, 1818-1828; Early California Travel Series XXXIV by Tchitchinoff, Zakahar; Woodward, Arthur (Introduction); Dean, Mallette (Artist)

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Title: Adventures in California of Zakahar Tchitchinoff, 1818-1828; Early California Travel Series XXXIV
Author: Tchitchinoff, Zakahar; Woodward, Arthur (Introduction); Dean, Mallette (Artist)
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Glen Dawson [Printed by Mallette Dean], 1956. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Dean, Mallette. One of 225 copies, duodecimo size, [56] pp. Zakahar Tchitchinoff was born in 1802 in a town in Eastern Siberia; he joined his father, an employee of the Russian American Company, where he was employed on the Company's ships. Tchitchinoff's descriptions of his adventures in California give a good picture of Russian activities in the Farallones in the period of 1818-1828, which consisted mostly of hunting seals for their fur. For the men it was a life filled with deprivation, and Tchitchinoff gives us a first-hand insight into the hardships of their daily lives. Printed, illustrated and bound in paper boards by Mallette Dean, an eminent California artist and printer, with the colour wood engravings and the wood-engraved initials printed from the original blocks. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter orange and gray striped cloth with decorative paper covered boards, paper spine label, four color wood engravings by Mallette Dean including frontis; duodecimo size (7 3/8" by 5 3/8"), pagination: [i-iv], v-xxix, 1-26, [1 colophon], limited edition of 225 copies, unnumbered. ___CONDITION: Fine overall, the binding clean, the corners straight, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a bare hint of rubbing to the corners, else fine. ___CITATION: Hawk no. 334. ___PROVENANCE: Available upon request. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Padre Junipero Serra and the Mission Church of San Carlos del Carmelo by WHITE, R.E.

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Title: Padre Junipero Serra and the Mission Church of San Carlos del Carmelo
Author: WHITE, R.E.
Seller: Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description: San Francisco: P.E. Dougherty & Co., steam printers, 1884. First edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Howes W-366. Rocq 5609. Original tan wrappers (a little discolored), stapled. Very good.

[SIGNED] [LIMITED] JUST LOOKING. ESSAYS ON ART by John Updike

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Title: [SIGNED] [LIMITED] JUST LOOKING. ESSAYS ON ART
Author: John Updike
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine binding
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition Limited. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Signed. Quarto; in quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, with titling in gilt to the spine; housed in the publisher’s slipcase; the top edge of the slipcase is lightly sunned; this edition limited to 350 copies, signed by Mr. Updike on the limited leaf. Fine binding.

True Detective (Inscribed) by Collins, Max Allan

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Title: True Detective (Inscribed)
Author: Collins, Max Allan
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 358 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $14.95 on front flap. INSCRIBED on ffep thus: "To Art - / with all the best / from Nate Heller's / Chicago! / Max" - additionally signed on the title page "Max Allen Collins" - Illustrated with black and white photos. First edition, stated, with full number line on copyright page.

Transactions And Reports Of The Nebraska State Historical Society

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Title: Transactions And Reports Of The Nebraska State Historical Society
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Description: TRANSACTIONS AND REPORTS OF THE NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Edited by Robert W. Furnas. Volume I. Lincoln, State Journal, 1885. Bound in publisher's original green wraps. Head of spine chipped, otherwise very good condition.

Omduran by ZIEGLER, Philip

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Title: Omduran
Author: ZIEGLER, Philip
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: New York: Knopf, 1974. hardcover. very good(+). Black-and-white illustrations.. 237pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. A very good (+) copy.

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