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Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers by CONSTANT Samuel Victor

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
Author: CONSTANT Samuel Victor
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1935. First Edition. CONSTANT, Samuel Victor. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. [Peking: Camel Bell, circa 1935]. Oblong octavo, original side-stitched silk cloth, orange paper cover label, mottled endpapers, French-folded leaves. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4500.First edition of this unusual documentation of Peking street-vendors, their instruments and their calls, illustrated with 61 color-printed lithographs, mounted paper cut-out and 16 mounted halftone photographs.In China, a system of peddling grew up to bring goods to them, each peddler announcing his presence by a distinctive call. In partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts from the California College in China, Samuel Constant documented these peddlers' calls and the callers themselves. ""Some call out their wares in a musical voice or song calculated to please the hearer. Others have a loud or discordant cry which grates on the nerves as though the devil himself had something to sell."" The color-printed lithographs are all two-paneled with the image of the peddler in one and either the musical instrument he used to accompany his call or the wares he sold in the other. The halftone photographs depict actual street-scenes and peddler ""performances."" Early issue, with original imprint inked over and ""The Peking Bookshop / Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits / Peking"" printed in ink on title page, and with Peking Bookshop label on rear pastedown. Occasional light foxing, fragile original boards with only light wear to edges. A near-fine copy.

Talking to Myself by BAILEY, Pearl

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Title: Talking to Myself
Author: BAILEY, Pearl
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Description: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Original boards. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Inscribed on title-page "To dear Doug -- a rare man -- all love, Pearl. Teacher to scholar / scholar to pupil / we all learn."

The Invisible World is in Decline by Whiteman, Bruce

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Title: The Invisible World is in Decline
Author: Whiteman, Bruce
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Toronto: Coach House Press, [1984] First edition (no hardcover issue). Pictorial wrappers. Octavo. A little soiling to covers. Very good+.

Mamba -- Anfang in Afrika by ALTHAUS, Gerhard; Hans Ludwig Althaus, ed

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Title: Mamba -- Anfang in Afrika
Author: ALTHAUS, Gerhard; Hans Ludwig Althaus, ed
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Erlangen: Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 103pp.; two color plates, including folding map, text illus. throughout. Light dust-soil, else About Fine. Posthumously published account of the German pastor's missionary work in Mamba, Tanzania, perhaps published by the author's son to offset his father's role in the Third Reich. Text entirely in German.

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