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T. Mi-vkhrugs-pavi vcho-ga dang-po bzhugs sto; Ch. Yu zhi yao shi tan ke yi 御製藥師壇科儀 [Ritual for the Altar of the Healing Buddha (trans. of Ch. title)] by WANLI EMPEROR OF THE MING (nominal author)

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Title: T. Mi-vkhrugs-pavi vcho-ga dang-po bzhugs sto; Ch. Yu zhi yao shi tan ke yi 御製藥師壇科儀 [Ritual for the Altar of the Healing Buddha (trans. of Ch. title)]
Author: WANLI EMPEROR OF THE MING (nominal author)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Two & one-half woodcut illus. 44 sheets, each folded into multiple pages. Oblong small 8vo (89 x 288 mm.), orig. stiff boards in concertina format (one loose). [Beijing]: [Nei fu 內府], 1617. A very scarce bilingual — Tibetan and Chinese — Buddhist scripture published at the Ming Imperial Household in Beijing. Ours is one of two known copies, judging by WorldCat (1202247985). Our book is dedicated to Bhaiṣajyaguru, the healing Buddha. This Buddha “has a body more brilliant than the sun, which was the color of lapis lazuli (vaiḍūryamaṇi) and possessed the power to heal illness and physical deformities” (The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, pp. 108-09). The Ming court periodically asserted sovereignty over Tibet, and several Ming emperors, Wanli among them, patronized Tibetan Buddhism by printing Tibetan-language scriptures in Beijing. The title given in the Preface, authored by the palace eunuch Zheng Li 鄭利, is enigmatic. In the cartouche that follows the illustrations at the beginning of the book, the title is given as Yaoshi shier dayuan tanchang fayi 藥師十二大願壇場法儀 [Dharma Ritual for the Site of Enlightenment with the Twelve Vows of the Healing Buddha]. The twelve vows of Bhaiṣajyaguru invoked in the title are: 1. The vow to brightly illuminate his own body and the bodies of others; 2. The vow to use his power to quicken the enlightenment of sentient beings; 3. The vow to have sentient beings satisfy their wants and not suffer from poverty; 4. The vow to firmly establish all sentient beings in the course of the Great Vehicle; 5. The vow to have all sentient beings live morally, and to embrace the three sets of precepts; 6. The vow to fully enhance the spiritual capacities of those who are lacking them; 7. The vow to free all sentient beings from the myriad sicknesses, to make them at ease mentally and physically, and to have them experience peerless perfect enlightenment; 8. The vow to transform females into males; 9. The vow to liberate all sentient beings from the entrapments of Māra and mistaken non-Buddhist paths, and from the dense forest of incorrect thinking and evil views (arisen based on ignorance of cause-and-effect), to induce correct cognition; 10. The vow to liberate all sentient beings from the unexpected misfortune of robbery, evil rulers, and so forth; 11. The vow to have all hungry and thirsty human beings gain excellent nutrition; 12. The vow that the poor who lack clothing will be given fine garments (Digital Dictionary of Buddhism). The Preface is dated 1599 (Wanli jihai), whereas the cartouche is dated 1617 (Wanli dingsi). Our book appears to lack the final leaf of the illustration at the end. However, a comparison with the digitized copy originally held at the Berlin State Library, which is the only other copy that we know of, lacks even the first leaf of this illustration. Ours is thus the more complete copy. The Berlin copy was evacuated to Silesia during the Second World War, and was then taken to Krakow when that region became part of Poland. It is still in Krakow. We believe that our book comes from the collection of Japanese sinologist Kanda Nobuo 神田信夫 (1921-2003). Fine copy; some tears in the margins, with no loss of text, and some marginal dampstaining, as well as the aforementioned possible loss of half an illustration at the end. One board is loose. Preserved in a modern hantao.

Catalogue 43: Kick Out the Jams! by BEAT BOOKS, bookseller

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Title: Catalogue 43: Kick Out the Jams!
Author: BEAT BOOKS, bookseller
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Unpaginated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. London: n.d. A fascinating bookseller catalogue published by Andrew Sclanders. It lists 680 items, including materials related to MC5, concrete & visual poetry, Ed Sanders and the Fugs, Alfred Jarry, experimental music, and Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground. A fine copy.

Le siège de Jérusalem. Grande tentation céleste de Saint Matorel. Illustrated with three cubist etchings by Picasso by Max Jacob. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso.

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Title: Le siège de Jérusalem. Grande tentation céleste de Saint Matorel. Illustrated with three cubist etchings by Picasso
Author: Max Jacob. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso.
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Max Jacob. Illustrated with three cubist etchings by Picasso, in full page, from 1913. Max Jacob three-act play reflect the author mystic quest and his research into the cabala and astrology, Picasso completed the illustrations during the winter of 1913/14 making three etchings and dry points, one for each act, to which he gave the titles: Femme Nue (plate 1) Nature Morte au Crâne (plate 2) and Femme (plate 3). This book is second illustrated book published by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, created in collaboration with Picasso. Signed by the Picasso and Jacob in the justification page and marked as number "40" of 85 copies on "Holland van Gelder" (total edition 106 copies). The book is complete, in the original glassine, light offsetting is present in the text page near the first illustration. Ref Cramer #3. Very good conditions.

Picasso's Picassos by David Douglas Duncan

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Title: Picasso's Picassos
Author: David Douglas Duncan
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Issued for the 80th birthday of Picasso, the book is a recollection of Picasso work between 1895-960. The photographic reportage was shoot by Duncan in Villa La Californie in Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso was living with his wife Jacqueline. The book contains many illustrations, tipped in plates in colors, photographs of Picasso, and black and white illustrations, the text is reach of anecdotes and presents a fine portraits of Picasso life through is work and time. The Book is good condition, complete of dust jacket worn with tears in several parts, the beige cloth hard cover is lightly stained on the edges. The book inside is in very good condition, except for some pages with minor stains and defects. Overall a good copy in good conditions.

The Writings of Mark Twain (in 37 vols) by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

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Title: The Writings of Mark Twain (in 37 vols)
Author: Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Stormfield Edition. Limited to 1,024 numbered sets. Thirty-seven octavo volumes. Original dark blue fine-bead cloth, gilt triple-rule border with the gilt stencil signature of Mark Twain on the front cover. Spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Title-pages printed in red and black. Photogravure frontispieces and plates (including portraits) after drawings, paintings, etc. by E.W. Kemble, Howard Pyle, Dan Beard, W.H.W. Bicknell, P. Newell, J.Allen St. John, A.B. Frost, and others. A Fine set in the original pale blue dust jackets with printed paper labels on the spine. The Stormfield edition of the Writings of Mark Twain, published in 1929, is identical in every way (with the exception of Twain's signature) to the Definitive Edition which had been published by Gabriel Wells in 1922. Even the limitation of these two sets were the same, both being limited to 1,024 numbered copies. The only difference between the two editions was the addition of an inserted 'signed leaf' in the first volume of the Definitive edition. Twain had signed these leaves in 1906 in anticipation of the edition but died but died twelve years before its publication in 1922. In fact the full cloth binding on the Stormfield edition is certainly superior to the quarter blue cloth over paper boards of the Definitive edition. The Stormfield edition was named after Mark Twain's final home "The Clemens family was itinerant from 1891 until well after Olivia's death in 1904, trying out a number of houses, none of which they found ultimately congenial. Fully out of debt, Clemens decided toward the end of his life to try and recover the feeling of stability that the Hartford home represented by building another house, this time in Redding, Connecticut, where he had purchased nearly 250 acres of land in 1906. In 1907, he commissioned John Mead Howells, son of William Dean Howells, to design the house, and allowed, or perhaps even encouraged, daughter Clara to participate in planning and overseeing construction. Built on the money he earned on "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven," he named the house "Stormfield" and lived there until his death in 1910. Clara sold the house many years after her father's death. When the house burned down, its owners built a near replica, which remains in private hands" (Camfield).

Hennepin County History Magazine; Winter 1958 through Spring 1963 by Zalusky, Joseph W. (editor)

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Title: Hennepin County History Magazine; Winter 1958 through Spring 1963
Author: Zalusky, Joseph W. (editor)
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Minneapolis: Hennepin County Historical Society. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Some shelf wear to cloth, particualry at the extremities. Zalusky's own copy, signed and dated by him on the ffep.

Literary Opinion In America by Zabel, Morton Dauwen

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Title: Literary Opinion In America
Author: Zabel, Morton Dauwen
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original brown cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Cloth is rubbed at the edges and extremities. Gilt on spine has faded but is legible. From the library of R.S. Crane with his signature on front free end paper.

The Holocaust Chronicle; A History in Words and Pictures by [WW2] [ED: ARETHA, David] KUNTZ, Dieter; MICHAEL, Robert Ashley et al.

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Title: The Holocaust Chronicle; A History in Words and Pictures
Author: [WW2] [ED: ARETHA, David] KUNTZ, Dieter; MICHAEL, Robert Ashley et al.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, 2003. First American Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's glossy paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 768pp. Very light wear and bumping to extremities, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout, bookplate to front pastedown; in a clean, strong and sharp dustjacket. A near fine copy. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist, with his bookplate. A large and completist history of the Holocaust, in pictures, with descriptive essays and articles from numerous qualified contributors.

SWP discussion bulletin: vol. 26, No. 5 (September, 1967) by Socialist Workers Party

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Title: SWP discussion bulletin: vol. 26, No. 5 (September, 1967)
Author: Socialist Workers Party
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1967. Magazine. 20p., mimeographed on 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at left, very good. Includes "The explosions in the ghetto shakes things up" by Nat W[einstein], a brief note about a referendum on the Vietnam War, by Asher Harer and Paul Colvin, and "A contribution to the discussion on a Black Political Party," by Gloria Allen.

To all workers, to all trade unionists: fraternal greetings [handbill] by Los Angeles Trade Unionists for Peace

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Title: To all workers, to all trade unionists: fraternal greetings [handbill]
Author: Los Angeles Trade Unionists for Peace
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Description: Los Angeles: Trade Unionists for Peace, 1970. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, mimeographed on one side, very good. Invitation to a meeting to discuss the impact of the Vietnam War and Nixon's policies on workers. Also included is a second similar handbill, dated March 2, 1970.

Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet by SPENCER, Ernest

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Title: Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet
Author: SPENCER, Ernest
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Novato, California: Corps Press, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 179pp. Foxing on the top page edge else near fine in a very good dust jacket with internal tape repairs and edgewear.

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