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2012174930Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Art 2012. Softcover. VG--shelf wear & light scratches to white covers. light markings/scratches to bottom text block. white glued wraps w/ chinese lettering & illustrations w/ english printing. 340 pgs w/ b&w and color illustrations. In Chinese & English. a beautifully illustrated catalogue for an exhibition held at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Taichung 28 July - 16 Sept. 2012. National Taiwan Museum of Art paperback books
1993117661Banff Alberta: Walter Phillips Gallery 1993. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 23 through February 27 1993. Essay by Larissa Lai. Includes a number of black and white illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers. Walter Phillips Gallery unknown books
1996140253Hong Kong: Art Top Movie Productions 1996. Vintage Hong Kong poster for the 1996 film. <br/><br/>With early appearances for many actors who would go on to become stars in the Hong Kong film scene Lau's adaptation of the popular comic book series "Teddy Boy" follows a group of Triad members as they struggle to maintain loyalty and friendship in the face of manipulation and betrayal. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hong Kong and Macau. <br/><br/>28.5 x 38 inches. Near Fine. Art Top Movie Productions unknown books
1989257571San Francisco: Printed by Eric Holub Hillside Press for the Book Club of California 1989. Twelve folders with text a few illustrations and spot-color decoration. Complete contents but lacks the enclosing box and the first folder has picked up some faint soil. Topics touch on Chinese newspapers postcards of Chinatown cookbooks calligraphy art of course a special 1930s production of Harte's satirical poem 'The Heathen Chinee' and more. Keepsake. Printed by Eric Holub, Hillside Press, for the Book Club of California unknown books
1949002551Paris: Nicolas. Societe Anonyme au capital de 1 milliard 50 millions. Printed by Draeger Freres a Montrouge. 1949. First Edition. Wraps with spiral. Fine/Very Good. A catalog that is itself a work of art with this issue drawing inspiration from Japanese woodblock imagery. Harada the artist captures the simplicity elegance and understatement of the Japanese aesthetic in his panoramas and images of birds insects flowers etc. 8vo. 33 1 pp. Nicolas a leading French wine distributor that is still very much in business excelled at producing beautiful books and other printed material over the decades. This copy but for light edge toing on the cover made of a heavy card is close to pristine and the original glassine is preserved although it has moderate wear an one inch or so closed tear and a few other trivial closed tears. Also included is a price list insert. <br/><br/> Nicolas. Societe Anonyme au capital de 1 milliard 50 millions. Printed by Draeger Freres a Montrouge. paperback books
1836WRCLIT81698Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter . 1836. 18pp. plus blank. Sewn printed wrapper. Edges a bit dust tanned small sliver chip from fore-edge of last leaf otherwise very good. First edition. With the faint round former ownership stamp of Oxford bibliographer and collector Falconer Madan. The '3' in the imprint date at a glance resembles an '8' thus resulting in entries under both 1836 and 1886 in OCLC. The printer died in 1871 and the copies at Oxford Cambridge etc are catalogued under the earlier and almost certainly correct date. COPAC notes: "Published in response to the massive programme of 'Waterloo' church building controlled by the Commission for Building New Churches between 1818 and 1857." OCLC: 244986768. Printed by W. Baxter ... unknown books
1991145021Pacific Cultural Foundation 1991. First edition. Softcover. 60 pages. Catalog for a show that ran April 1-14 1991 in New York and then traveled to three other locations for additional dates. Text in Chinese and English. Includes numerous color illustrations. A near fine copy in French style wrappers. Uncommon. Pacific Cultural Foundation unknown books
19111341933Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Civic Commission 1911. Hardcover. Larger Thin Octavo; VG-; burgundy spine with gilt text; cloth has slightly sunned spine; modest exterior wear otherwise; mildly bowed boards; text block exterior edges show slight toning; frontispiece; interior clean; tight binding; illustrated; pp 169. 1341933. FP New Rockville Stock. Pittsburgh Civic Commission hardcover books
1991238807New York: Praeger 1991. xviii 179 pages very good hardcover. Praeger unknown books
2002282596Boulogne: ETAI 2002. hardcover. fine/fine. Many color illustrations. 159 pages with text in French. Slim 4to glossy black pictorial boards. Boulogne: ETAI 2002. Fine.<br/><br/> ETAI unknown books
0436<br/><br/>Lay-Tek. Moyens de locomotion en pays khmer. Dans la legende et dans la realite. Illustrations executees par le lekhanuvat Lay-Tek. Hanoi: Institut Bouddhique Imprime par G. Taupin & cie. 1930. Oblong Octavo. 4pp. l. 2-62pp. incl. 31 col. pl. 16 x 24 cm. Three quarter blue morocco. A fanciful look at the historic means of transportation of the Khmer people which includes flying serpents an elephant on wheels horses ridden by the gods but also rickshaws ballons and carriages of many sorts including ceremonial. Western conveyances used in the regions are also pictured. unknown books
1868847London: Pr. by C. Roworth & Sons for the Church Institution 1868. 8vo. 8 pp. <br><br>Removed from a nonce volume. Foxed. Pr. by C. Roworth & Sons for the Church Institution unknown books
197018005NY: Praeger 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. ix 104pp. Very good hardback bound in publisher's green cloth and issued without a jacket. <br/><br/> Praeger hardcover books
182840609New London: Wm. Lay and C.M. Hussey 1828. 168 pp. <br /><br />First edition. This important narrative relates the bloody mutiny and murders perpetrated by harpooner and boatsteerer Samuel Comstock who was himself murdered by natives on Mili Atoll. Lay and Hussey were the only survivors of this incident and were later rescued by Lieut. Paulding of the U.S. schooner "Dolphin." Pages evenly tanned. Water stain in lower corner of first third of book. Bound in original calf rebacked to match with red spine label. For a detailed account of this wild adventure I hope you will read my book "Demon of the Waters" now available as a Kindle read on Amazon. Wm. Lay and C.M. Hussey books
190090465New York: Abbey Press 1900. Reprint of original New London edition of 1828. Hardcover. Very Good. 163 30p. Original Turquoise cloth. 20cm. Some cover spotting. Gift inscription dated 1901 on front endpaper. No jacket. Reprint of the 1828 edition. The Globe was a whaling ship from Nantucket. Lay and Hussey were the only survivors among the nine mutineers who had become stranded on these islands now known as the Mili Atoll -- the other seven were killed by the local inhabitants. <br/><br/> Abbey Press hardcover books
182810636812mo. New-London: Lay and Hussey 1828. 12mo i-v vi-x 11-168 pp. Contemporary sheep neatly rebacked with gilt-ruled backstrip and red morocco label boards a little scraped foxing throughout light dampstaining scattered annotations in pencil and occasionally contemporary ink. Early ownership inscription on front free endpaper. § First edition of the first hand account of “one of the goriest mutinies in Pacific History†Hill lead by Samuel Comstock aboard the Nantucket whaling ship the Globe. Four officers were brutally murdered and the rest of the crew forced on pain of death to join the mutineers. After a failed attempt to conquer Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands the crew sailed to the Mulgrave Islands where Comstock was killed by his fellow mutineers part of the crew escaped in the ship to Valparaiso and the rest were killed by the locals but for Lay and Hussey who were rescued by a U.S. schooner. Concludes with “A Vocabulary of Words and Phrases Used by the Mulgrave Islanders. Rare in good condition. Forbes 697. Howes L-158. Hill p.176. Sabin 39467. Lay and Hussey hardcover books
1828WRCAM36145New London: Lay and Hussey 1828. 168pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf spine label lacking. Top and bottom of spine worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on rear free endpaper: "Dartmouth the 22 day 1832. Alma Bullou her book." Browning and foxing one signature starting a few minor marginal tears including one in titlepage not affecting text of titlepage but loss of a few letters on verso. Front free endsheet excised. Good. An important firsthand narrative of one of the most infamous mutinies in American naval history compiled by two of the few survivors of the event itself and its aftermath. The Globe was taken over near the Line Islands four of the officers were murdered and the remainder of the crew were forced by pain of death to join the mutineers. The crew then proceeded to the Marshall Islands and thence to the Mulgrave Islands where the leader of the original mutiny was killed and some of the party escaped to Valparaiso. Lay and Hussey remained on the Mulgrave Islands and were the sole survivors of an attack on their party by natives. They were eventually rescued by a war vessel sent in pursuit of the mutineers. HOWES L158. SABIN 39467. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 3386. HILL 990. FORBES 697. Lay and Hussey unknown books
1992014530Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1992. 230p. dj. University of Illinois Press unknown books
1970184773Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1970. Hardcover. VG-/VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear but pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Silver cloth boards with silver design and lettering; xii 333 pp bw illustrated title page top edge tinted black. An American Bar Foundation study. Includes index appendix and bibliography. The University of Chicago Press hardcover books
185335219NY: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society 1853. 12mo. 65 pp. Original printed cream wrappers some wear at extremities. Very good. Fourth edition revised and enlarged. The author was a native of Madison County Alabama and is described on the title page here as a "Presbyter of Alabama." This edition is scarce; OCLC locates two copies Transylvania Virginia. Not in Owen two other works by Lay are described. <br/><br/> General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society unknown books
1949WRCLIT35190Prairie City: The Decker Press 1949. Gilt cloth. First edition. A couple ink underscores else fine in good somewhat sunned and chipped dust jacket. The Decker Press hardcover books
199241992Point Reyes Station: Floating Island 1992. First edition. 58 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Omission slip laid in. Point Reyes Station: Floating Island, unknown books
196945692Mobile: National Society of the Colonial Dames 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. ix 417pp. Light foxing to prelims some superficial damage to boards else a very good hardback bound in publisher's red cloth. <br/><br/> National Society of the Colonial Dames hardcover books
2006108256Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Galleries Inc 2006. Softcover. VG. Black illus. wraps with white lettering; unpaginated with numerous color illustrations. An auction catalogue for the sale held June 3 and 4 2006. Cincinnati Art Galleries, Inc paperback books
191258574Warsaw MO: Warsaw Times 1912. First edition thus Lay's contribution was first published in 1876. 8vo. 2 134 pp. Illustrated. Howes L-157 for the earlier publication. Eberstadt 110 183 for the earlier edition: "Discovery and explorations Indians first settlement townships and early courts Warsaw Slicker War Kansas War etc." OCLC locates seven copies of this edition Pomona Public Iowa State Historical Society Kansas City Public Springfield County Public State Historical Society of Missouri Truman State Lubbock Public. Poor quality paper browned but a very good copy. Later black-stamped green cloth. #5887. <br/><br/> Warsaw Times hardcover books
