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Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 84x9x127. Signed by author. First edition. Signed and dated by author on half-title page (March, 1994), inscription ('For Dr. Ron Rigli') appears to have been added in a separate hand. Certificate of authenticity from an auction company laid in. 1991 Hard Cover. 119 pp. 8vo.. Translated from the original Russian by Alexis Klimoff. A collection of essays on various topics by the author of Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

London. Horace Cox. 1895. Hardcover. 4to. 28cm, Large Paper Copy, "Edition de Luxe", limited to 150 numbered and signed by the author, this being #30., on hand-made paper, vi,212p., rubricated title-page, photogravure frontis portrait, 4 plates, 6 tipped-in figures, index, in full dark green crushed morocco, blind ruled raised bands, gilt spine titles, gilt border on the boards, decorated gilt inner dentelles, bevelled boards, french marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the others two edges uncut, (deckled), green silk bookmark bound-in, peeling in 2 place and a few edge wear blemish have been expertly touch up before the regular leather application, a near fine copy of a rare book ~ Halford's scarce treatise on selecting and managing a fishery. With chapters on selection, tenure, management, weeds, poachers, netting, wiring, stocking, the stew, grayling and distribution. A beautifully bound edition with Halford's photogravure portrait as a frontispiece.

Tokyo: Kazumasa Ogawa, 1892. First Edition. Bound in stiff decorated wraps with stabbed binding using silk ties. Good+. Kazumasa Ogawa. Folio. Pp. [11]. Featuring 27 black and white photos with captions on 11 plates, each plate with a tissue guard. Wear and soiling commensurate with age, with corners rounded and occasional slight, closed tears along fore-edge of two or three plates, each less than an inch. With an errata sheet bound in. This is not a volume in Ogawa's "Illustrations of Japanese Life," a small-format series on various subjects published from 1890s-1910s, but a large folio volume in a series published with uniform covers. The publications provides a fascinating glimpse into Meiji-era Japan in which the traditional Japanese aesthetic is slightly Americanized. In the 1880s Ogawa studied photography in Boston; occasionally his captions here reflect the whimsy popular in the US at that time: "Country Belles in Their Best" or "He is Coming? Let Us Look Pretty!" or "The Policeman and His… Read More

Tokyo: Kazumasa Ogawa, 1892. First Edition. Bound in stiff decorated wraps with stabbed binding using silk ties. Good+. Kazumasa Ogawa. Folio. Pp. [14]. Featuring 13 black and white photos with captions, one per plate, and one colored photograph, each plate with a tissue guard. Wear and soiling commensurate with age, most notably on the top left corner of the front cover. With corners rounded and slight edge chipping.The rear cover has slight damage visible at a lower corner (please see photo). With an errata sheet bound in. This is a large folio volume in an Ogawa series published with uniform covers. While other titles appear on the open market, "Chrysanthemums of Japan" is scarce; auction records indicate only one sale in the last few years, in England. The publication provides a fascinating glimpse into Meiji-era Japan in which the traditional Japanese aesthetic is slightly Americanized. That tendency is most noticed in Ogawa's captions, imbued with Victoriana.

London: Published by the Editor, printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square, ca. 1837. FIRST EDITION. 277 x 208 mm. (10 7/8 x 8 1/8"). xvi, 152 pp. Contemporary purple pebble-grain morocco decorated in gilt and blind in the Romantic style, covers framed by triple blind-stamped fillet border with floral cornerpieces, blind-stamped floral roll around gilt frame with swirling scroll pieces, gilt titling in center surrounded by blind-stamped circular frame, raised bands, blind-stamped frame compartments with gilt borders, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Birch by J. F. Lewis. With four lithographed facsimiles of handwritten letters. ◆Spine sunned to lighter purple, a few trivial scratches, some foxing to frontispiece, facsimiles, and endpapers, otherwise internally clean with only a handful of small smudges, and THE BINDING IN ESPECIALLY FINE CONDITION, with only the slightest signs of use. This charming memorial in a well-preserved, special binding gives us a glimpse into… Read More

Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

Warm Springs (1944-47). 84 photographs, also included are: 13 paintings of patients being fitted for body casts, water therapy and the ever present wheel chairs. Albert Gold's paintings are also in the Smithsonian, the Philadelphia College of Art and many museums. The most interesting are the photographs of the Dedication of the Little White House after FDR's death. The photograph of Grant Jackson's singing there is dated June 1947. The photographs are much clearer than those published in the Atlanta Constitution on June 26, 1947. Laid in is a 20 page booklet "The Story of the Warm Springs Foundation" which not only features President Franklin Delano Roosevelt but lists all the Medical Doctors, Therapists, and administrators. (Program laid in June 20, 1947 with Josephus Daniels, Secretary of Navy, and other dignitaries with Graham Jackson presenting a medley of Franklin D. Roosevelt's favorite songs. See picture on lower right hand corner p. 17. A newspaper excerpt shows Florence Carr, Physical… Read More

San Francisco, CA, 2006. Unique. Fine. Unique. Phil Frank original cartoon drawing, Shield of St. James, done in pen and ink and signed with inscription by Frank, "To Margo - Long may your banner wave!" Sex Pots Extension ["Text: Margo St. James] signed by Mark Bode. Sex Pot: A True Story, signed by Bode and St. James. From Margo's private library. Margo St. James founded the organization C.O.Y.O.T.E. (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics). The bulk of COYOTE's records are archived at Harvard University [in the Schlesinger Library]. An American self-described prostitute and international activist on and for sex workers rights. Founder and headliner of the [in]famous "HOOKERS' MASQUERADE BALLS" in San Francisco. St. James ran for President of the United States, as a Republican, in 1980 and for San Francisco Board of County Supervisors in the late 1990s. She was married to Paul Avery (investigative journalist notably of Zodiac killer and Patti Hearst) until his death in 2000. She was instrumental in… Read More

Munich: M. Müller & Sohn, 1919. 9x12 inch broadside, paper evenly toned, couple of short, unobtrusive closed tears at right edge, very good. A lovely example of this proclamation issued under Toller's name on behalf of the Provisional Revolutionary Central Council of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. Undated, but the example illustrated in "Sammlung von Flugblättern betreffend die Münchener" has a penned date of April 13, 1919. Toller had replaced Ernst Niekisch as head of the Central Council on April 8. "To the working people of Bavaria! Bavaria is a Soviet Republic! Great rumors are circulated by those who seek to harm your interests. Everything is calm in Munich. No shots were fired...." Outlines problems with the pre-existing electoral system, promises a new regime of workers' councils. "The farmer has to stand by his plow, the blacksmith by his anvil... All mistrust is misunderstanding! Therefore be united in the Soviet Republic of Bavaria!