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1961007041New York: Crown Publishers 1961. With an essay on the art of Peking by Peter C. Swann. 227p. colored and b/w illus. quarto format original cloth. Crown Publishers unknown books
197234879Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1972. First American Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers with French flaps; 81pp. Cover wraps slightly rolled at margins else a clean Near Fine copy. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
2017169052Taipei: Tapei Fine Arts Museum 2017. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 2 through May 22 2016. Text in English and Chinese. Prefaces by Ping Lin and Manray Hsu. Text by Hong-Jong Lin. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations and with some inserts. A fine copy in wrappers and with mylar dust jacket. An interesting production. Uncommon. Tapei Fine Arts Museum unknown books
1937104430New York: China Institute in America 1937. 23p. 6x9 inches in original stapled wraps blue stain on cover caused by damp transfer from another item. China Institute in America unknown books
1151GC DOUBLEDAY 1975. FIRST EDITION FINE. F. GC, DOUBLEDAY, 1975 unknown books
1975145264Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1975. Octavo boards. First edition. Crime fighter Prince Zarkon and the Omega men battle a master criminal "The Grim Reaper." An homage to the fiction found in the superhero pulps and comics of the 1930s. Second Zarkon novel. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #145264 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1975137231Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1975. Octavo boards. First edition. Crime fighter Prince Zarkon and the Omega men battle a master criminal "The Grim Reaper." An homage to the fiction found in the superhero pulps and comics of the 1930s. Second Zarkon novel. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with touch of wear to spine ends. #137231 Doubleday & Company unknown books
197573186Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1975. Octavo boards. First edition. Crime fighter Prince Zarkon and the Omega men battle a master criminal "The Grim Reaper." An homage to the fiction found in the superhero pulps and comics of the 1930s. Second Zarkon novel. Light remainder spray to bottom edge of text block a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #73186 Doubleday & Company unknown books
197573185Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1975. Octavo boards. First edition. Crime fighter Prince Zarkon and the Omega men battle a master criminal "The Grim Reaper." An homage to the fiction found in the superhero pulps and comics of the 1930s. Second Zarkon novel. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #73185 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1975106833Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1975. Octavo boards. First edition. Crime fighter Prince Zarkon and the Omega men battle a master criminal "The Grim Reaper." An homage to the fiction found in the superhero pulps and comics of the 1930s. Second Zarkon novel. Review slip laid in. Lower rear corner tip bruised top edge of text block lightly foxed a nearly fine copy in fine dust jacket. #106833 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1984145266Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1984. Octavo boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #145266 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1998155909Guangzhou: the author 1998. 56p. wraps text mostly in Chinese with some lyrics in English. These are Lin's pieces selected from among the various hymns which originally appeared in the 1947 edition of Kuang ye ren sheng. They have been supplemented with several Lin wrote while in a Chinese prison in 1956. the author unknown books
1966008635Milano: Bramante Editrice 1966. xiii 168p. 12 colored plates 101 b/w illus. original stiff wrappers ex libris. At top of t.p.: Ente manifestazioni Milanesi Galleria Nazionale di Prage. Folded panorama of Prague in the rear pocket. Major exhibit at the Palazzo Reale in Milano April-May 1966. Bramante Editrice unknown books
1975UCARLAN01LRDell 1975. Very Good. Carter Lin. Lankar of Callisto. New York City: Dell 1975. 203pp. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Dell paperback books
197588705New York: A Dell Book 1975. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell Books 4648. Neat owner's name at upper right corner of first leaf a fine copy. #88705 A Dell Book unknown books
92110001Edo 1750 Suharaya Mohei. Large folding map 170 x 200 cm. old mended worming rebackedpastel colors Japanese reprint of a map printed in Henan in 1679 folds down to be 21.5 x 25.5 cm. woodblock printed hand color. V E R Y R A R E ! . . AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE WALL-SIZE MAP OF CHINA . . EXECTED BY A SHAOLIN ZEN MASTER The Shaolin Xi Monastery/Temple is a Chán Zen Buddhist temple at Song Shan near Zheng Zhou City Henan Province in Dengfeng China. It was led by Venerable abbot Shi Yongxìn. founded in the 5th century the monastery has been famous for centuries its association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with Shaolin Kung Fu. It is also a Mahayana Buddhist monastery perhaps best known to the Western world. . The Shaolin Monastery and its famed Pagoda Forest were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010 as part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng. Extracted from Wikipedia. . A RARE EDITION: Reprinted and published in Japan by Katsuragawa Hosan in 1750 reproduced from the Chinese original of Kangxi 27 1679. The original Chinese edition has been exceptionally obscure and impossible to come by for over the last two-hundred years and is believed now to be lost to posterity. . PRINTING TECHNIQUE AND THE PAPER: The work is woodblock printed by hand on hand-made Washi paper then hand-colored in delicate pastels. . CHINESE VIEW OF ANCIENT CHINA: This grand scale work covers a very large space and is quite handsome suitable for framing and display. The map shows a full view of all of China from the Great Wall in the North Shanghai the East coast down to the oceans in the South and Hainan Island and the coasts along he Eastern shores. This is a spectacular work showing each province in pastel colors with outlines large numbers of place names rivers & the major waterways mountains named and located. By and large inspired to show all of the known lands considered a part of China delineating the country and its exterior boundaries. . Japan and other islands are not shown but boxes with notes in Chinese as to their existence and location are well documented. The lower portion has text discussing the population of the various provinces and other notes. Areas beyond the traditional lines of China i.e.: North of the Great Wall and to . RARITY OF THE MAP AND ITS MAKERS: This grand-scale and truly spectacular work is virtually never found on the market. The Shaolin Monastery monks were the original founders of the celebrated and now famous Kung-fu martial art school located in Henan province. The priests were legendary and the most feared for their martial art prowess. They were also covert with their powerful political force in China. . SHAOLIN SI TEMPLE/MONASTERY LEGENDARY CUSTOMS: Priests who passed the highest level of Kung-fu martial art were invited to participate in a recognition ceremony. They were allowed to self-brand themselves by picking up a red-hot iron brazier that had long temple dragon decorations on the sides. The branding was accomplished by clamping the brazier between their forearms until the dragon image was branded on them. These brazier dragons are identical to the long dragon found at the top of this historic map. Another ancient practices used was the Jieba. It is an ancient ceremony where nine marks are burned onto the head with sticks of incense. In 2007 the Chinese government partially lifted the 300-year ban of the Jieba allowing the the mentally and physically prepared to participate in the ancient tradition. Incense or moxa was used on top of the shaved head and burned in a ceremony of dedication to the Shaolin Si temple/monastery by the most skilled of martial artists. WHY THE DRAGON SYMBOL WAS USED BY SHAOLIN MONKS: The top of the map show the dragon as a symbol of the Shaolin Si. In China the dragon is the first of twelve zodiac animals and is the most powerful of all and represents the ultimate and greatest of all powers known. It is also the one and only legendary animal in the zodiac the rest are actual animals. Because this map was conceived of carved and printed at the Shaolin Xi monastery or temple by these very priests they put the most powerful symbol at the top a dragon. The symbolic meaning indicated that China was superior to all other nations. It was also a private pun by the Shaolin priests indicating for all to see and know that the Shaolin temple and its priests were above all others. Additionally it reminded and indicated that the Shaolin priest were the most powerful martial artists and covert political force in all China. . RARITY: The original Chinese edition has been exceptionally obscure and impossible to come by for over the last two-hundred years and is believed now to be lost to posterity. Shaolin Si temple/monastery imprints are very R A R E ! Few references or examples exist of their woodblock printed works. This edition was a copy of the original re-carved by the Japanese and reissued. Not only is this map of great interest to Chan Zen Buddhists Shaolin Kung-fu collectors martial artists and historians but to students of Chinese cartography collectors and museums. . CONDITION: The map has been professionally re-backed in its distant past due to the large amount of old worming. It is now solid and stable. Because of the rarity of this work a complete map found in any condition would be now considered exceptionally R A R E ! Please review images posted to our website to observe the restored condition. . THE COVERS: The map has been rebound in non-original paper covers perhaps about 100 years ago. It is contained in a brown cloth Chuan Chitsu folding slipcase with ivory clasps cloth a bit faded one edge a bit worn else clean & solid. . THE SCANS: While we have made efforts to take good digital photographs and scans of our copy due to the exceptionally large size of the map these photos are not of the highest quality. We therefore are additionally using copies of this map from the Oda reference book illustrations as samples of what the map is like. Please note the following digital images are from Oda: cover.jpg illus08.jpg & illus12.jpg the balance are from our digital camera. . Any client who purchases this map may be interested in the Japanese text found in Oda. Upon request we are happy to provide a copy of his entry. . BIBLIOGRAPHY: G. Beans: A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA Supplement A on p.14 as #1750.1 with confirmation date of 1750. Beans gives this the title: "THE BEST COLLECTION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN WORKS CONCERNING THE HISTORICAL EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE DYNASTIES BY THE MONASTERY OF SHAO-LIN." T. Oda: THE WORLD IN JAPANESE MAPS UNTIL THE MID-19TH CENTURY p.52-53 item #24 for 2 excellent color examples. Oda shows the Japanese title: REKIDAI JISEKI ZU: HISTORICAL MAP OF CHINA reproduced from the Chinese original of 1679 by Katsuragawa Hosan 1750. Beautifully reproduced here in full color. Meir Shahar: The Xiaolin Monastery: History Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Monastery Color scans of this and most items are posted to our web site. . hardcover books
280294Grey pictorial wraps no spine title. A very good copy. . folio. Chinese text english titles on illustrations. Numerous illustrations. paperback books
1973231769San Francisco: Chinese Art Gallery 1973. 32p. slender paperback very good 8x11.5 inches. Inscribed on the front endpaper to Huang Keyi who was part of the San Francisco Chinatown art world. Short transverse tear to spine panel. Professor Lin also spelled Lim Tsing-Ai was director of the Chinese Art Gallery at 30 Waverly Place in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chinese Art Gallery unknown books
1968228970Taipei: National Museum of History 1968. 32p. staplebound exhibition booklet illustrated in black and white; minor toning to cover otherwise very good. Lin was an art instructor in San Francisco at the time. National Museum of History unknown books
2013407146Milan: Charta / Asia Society 2013. A fine copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 136 pages. 91 color illustrations. Pictorial boards. "One of only a few internationally recognized female artists from China Lin Tianmiao born 1961 is known for her innovative use of thread and embroidery as both medium and subject matter in her sculptures photographs videos and installations. When visiting China after having lived in New York for most of her life Tianmiao was reminded of the time spent in her childhood helping her mother sew clothes for the family. Prompted by this memory the artist created a practice she calls "thread winding" where she winds silk or cotton thread around an object until it is completely covered and eventually transformed. Bound Unbound which accompanies the artist's exhibition at the Asia Society in New York surveys for the first time the past 20 years of Tianmiao's work including an interview with the artist and essays by leading scholars in Chinese contemporary art Melissa Chiu and Guo Xiaoyan" the publisher. <br/><br/> Charta / Asia Society hardcover books
1972049006Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong 1972. lxvi 1720p. original burgundy dloch thick quarto format. Chinese University of Hong Kong unknown books
197246549Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1972. Thick 4to pp. lxvi 1720; text in triple column light wear to extremities else very good in original black cloth-backed red boards with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. <br/><br/> The Chinese University of Hong Kong hardcover books
1930108256Oblong 4to. Paris: A. Roques & Fils circa 1930s. Oblong 4to. 2 78 leaves of color linoleum samples with a price list. Bolted quarter green cloth with snakeskin pattern green paper boards stamped in gilt rope handle at the backstrip. Edges of both boards are slightly rubbed mostly at the corners internally bright; very good. § A beautifully bound trade catalogue with 78 bright linoleum samples. A dizzying compilation of French floor coverings of the period varying from art deco to mosaic patterns and many meant to imitate tapestries. A. Roques & Fils hardcover books
196547549Boston: New England Free Press 1965. 4to one sheet folded pp. 4. Paper. Synopsized by Donald McKelvey. A little browned at edges o/w VG. A synopsis of an article originally appearing in People's Daily on 3 September 1965. New England Free Press unknown books
199629601Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press 1996. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Trade paperbound volume of poems by the younng American Chinese poet. 175 pp. Very good or better copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by Lin to a fellow poet on the title page. Uncommon signature. Sun & Moon Press paperback books
