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1954243431Tainan Taiwan: Da fang shu ju 大方書局 1954. 158p. paperback bookstore rubberstamp on rear cover. Guide for style in writing letters. Da fang shu ju 大方書局 unknown books
1984174235Taibei: Tian tang niao chu ban she 天堂鳥出版社 1984. 236p. very good hardcover in faintly stained dj; text in Chinese. Private letters of the Taiwanese legislator and democratization movement leader including a great deal about his travels in the US and his interest in the African American and Native American civil rights movements. First section is prison letters followed by material from 1984 when Lin went to Harvard after his release from prison in Taiwan. He later returned in 1989 and worked as Chairman of Democratic Progressive Party. Tian tang niao chu ban she 天堂鳥出版社 unknown books
6797Many full-page woodcut illus. Nine columns per page; 20 characters per column. 21; 32 folding leaves. Two vols. incl. addendum. 8vo orig. wrappers remains of block-printed title labels on upper covers. Osaka: Bun'eido 19th century or earlier. This book presents several mysteries. The title-page states "Seppu shoshi Bun'eido shi" "Osaka publisher Bun'eido published this book". In spite of this the book has all the qualities of a Chinese publication: the text paper and wrappers are clearly Chinese. There is no colophon. It would seem that this book was printed in China for the Japanese market. The history of the literati scholar in China dates back to the Tang and Song dynasties A.D. 618-907 and 960-1279 respectively when the court implemented meritocratic civil exams for the selection of bureaucratic officials. The tests assessed the candidates' knowledge and ability in a wide range of subjects including Confucian thought law agriculture and the arts especially calligraphy painting and music. An entire class of intellectual and artistically trained scholars was thus created many of whom built studios filled with beautiful calligraphy and painting tools furniture musical instruments implements for preparing and consuming tea and wine and antiques. The two authors Lin active 13th century and Luo active 1254 compiled this collection of instruments and objects necessary for the studios of the fashionable literati connoisseurs well-versed in all the arts. The text originally appeared as part of the great Shou fu a large anthology of philosophical works commentaries on poetry and essays on culture. The verso of each folding leaf has a full-page woodcut of an instrument used in calligraphy and painting: a brush with cap cake of ink paper in rolls an inkwell a vessel to hold water shells and minerals to be admired a knife rulers scissors a seal a tray to hold instruments a container to hold red ink for corrections screens a light source a box to carry brushes brooms stone weights needles used in binding a board game an ornate antique sword a mirror bow and arrows utensils to prepare pigments arm rests and a number that we cannot determine. On the respective following recto page is a description of each object. The addendum in the second volume was written by Yuanqing Gu 1487-1565 a bibliophile from today's Changzhu in Jiangsu province. He had a large collection of books and was the editor of a treatise on tea by Chunnian Qian active ca. 1530-35. In this section of the book the format changes and has images on the verso with explanatory text on the facing pages. There are illustrations of screens porcelains ornate fly swatters a flute a cane a jade bell an inkwell etc. Nice set of an extremely rare book; we find another set at Kyushu University only. The wrappers of each volume are wormed with careful repairs. The first and final few leaves of Vol. I have some mostly marginal worming. Vol. II has some unimportant worming. unknown books
2014147937Seoul Korea: Gallery Skape 2014. Softcover. VG. Color pictorial wraps French flaps 54 pp. color illus. Text is in English Korean and Chinese. Issued in conjunction with a 2014 exhibition featuring paintings by Chinese artist Zhang Yingnan b. 1981. With essays by Somi Sim and Vincent Lin. Catalogue lists 35 works and many if not all are pictured here. Includes chronology. Thought provoking! Scarce. Gallery Skape paperback books
197638695Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1976. 1st edition. Cream cloth binding purple printed lettering to spine. Color pictorial blue and pink DJ. Light wear to boards remainder markings to bottom of textblock. DJ worn and lightly chipped on front top edge. A VG copy in a VG DJ. 177 1 blank pp. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
197538690Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1975. 1st edition. Green cloth binding with light green lettering printed to spine. Mustard colored pictorial DJ with white lettering to spine. Light wear to binding remainder marks to bottom of textblock spine slightly pushed. DJ worn. A VG copy in a VG DJ. 173 3 blank pp. 8-3/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
2010102301New York: James Cohan Gallery Shanghai 2010. Softbound. VG. In Chinese and English. Tan printed wraps. 79 pp. many color plates. Published on the occasion of his second exhibition at James Cohan Gallery's New York location the catalogue presents a collection of Ji's works from 2006 to the present along with a collage of varying sources of inspiration that he as collected: blog posts poems ancient ghost stories and excerpts of news articles. - from the introduction. James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai unknown books
1947224533Shanghai: Kaiming shudian 開明書店 1947. 118p. 129p. 233p. three paperback books from the series for students of English; pages toned otherwise generally very good condition. Kaiming shudian 開明書店 unknown books
199783548Oakland:: Chaosium. Near Fine. 1997. Paperback. 156882078X . Selected and introduced by Robert M. Price. First edition thus paperback . Near fine in illustrated wraps. . Chaosium, paperback books
2011200445San Francisco: Ri luo cao lu 日è½è‰廬 2011. 14 viii 513 pages text in Chinese inscribed by author. CD included. Essays by the San Francisco-based author. Ri luo cao lu 日è½è‰廬 unknown books
2000219490Hong Kong: Yin he chubanshe 银河出版社 2000. 221p. very good paperback text in Chinese. On Zhongshan natives who immigrated to the United States with much on San Francisco's Chinatown. Yin he chubanshe 银河出版社 unknown books
1993161512El Cerrito CA / Taipei: Dr. Yutang Lin 1993. 138p. wraps with light splatter stain tea and sticker shadow. A pure-land Buddhist in Cerritos CA discusses religion no connection to the famous writer Lin Yutang. Dr. Yutang Lin unknown books
199610791012 double leaf pages. Honolulu: Manoa Press 1996. 12 double leaf pages with 1 folding leaf of the original Chinese text. Rust colored handmade paper cover with paper label on front. Includes a printed announcement for the book with a handwritten note from the author. Fine as issued. § Numbered 31 of 52 copies. This is a translation of a page from the T’ang Ch’i Shuo Strange Stories from the T’ang Dynasty. Manoa Press unknown books
1888156360Chicago New York and San Francisco: Belford 1888. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-192 flyleaves at front and rear original dark blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold t.e.g. fore-edge untrimmed bottom edge rough trimmed white endpapers with floral pattern printed in yellow-green. First edition. The author's first book published in paper wrappers and in cloth as here. A story of metempsychosis written in San Francisco but laid in Paris and Wales. "It was a wild yarn and written off at white heat" says the author "and every publisher in the United States rejected it as too shocking." Four years later Mrs. Atherton went to New York with the manuscript in her trunk and made the rounds of the publishers in person. Henry Holt terming it "too wildly improbable" doubted any American publisher would risk it. Henry Harper wished that the House of Harper would permit him to publish it which they emphatically wouldn't but suggested Belford Clarke & Co. a new firm unhampered by tradition. The latter accepted the manuscript with enthusiasm "although an old Welshman reader for the firm wrote out eight pages of criticism." The title was suggested by the brother of a friend and the pseudonym was in honor of her collateral ancestor Benjamin Franklin. Her grandfather wrote "What a name to choose! It sounds Chinese." As for the reception of the book the author writes "I know now it was not worth the paper it was printed on. Its only merit was that it betrayed a certain originality in conception. It should have been dismissed with a paragraph if noticed at all. But it was greeted with columns of ridicule and even abuse" Adventures of a Novelist 1932 pp. 137-144. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 140. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978 Day 1963 or Reginald 1979; 1992. Wright III 163. Cloth rubbed at spine ends corner tips and along outer joints inner hinges cracked flyleaves tanned from interaction with free endpapers still a sound good copy. #156360 Belford unknown books
2017161911Taipei Taiwan: Taipei Fine Arts Museum 2017. Softcover. 231 pages. Text in Chinese. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A fine copy in French style wrappers. Taipei Fine Arts Museum unknown books
1944011757Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1944. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. lvi 107 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear and slight darkening of spine lettering. Unclipped dustjacket with slight darkening of spine one small tear and minor soiling and rubbing to extremities; protected in archival mylar. Lectures on the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation 1944. From the library of Theodore W. Schultz 1902-1998 winner of the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with W. A. Lewis. Signed in ink on the title page "T. W. Schultz March 1944." Endpapers are map-illustrated. University of Chicago Press Hardcover books
1988164722Mount Olive NC: Charnel House 1988. Octavo pp. 1 2-8 pictorial lavender wrappers printed in black stapled. First edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies with a facsimile of Carter's signature on the limitation page. "Charnel House Chapbooks" number 5. A posthumously published cycle of eleven macabre poems with short introduction by Robert M. Price. A fine copy. #164722 Charnel House unknown books
2013157084Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum 2013. Softcover. New in shrink wrap. Color-illus. wraps with bw lettering on spine Chinese/English. 213 pp. fully-illus. Text in Chinese and English. I.Visible/Invisible Recovering Ho Te-Lai at the collection of Taipei Fine Arts Museum IosebaLi I-Cheng; II.Science/Discourse; III.Historical Memories; IV. Artistic Representation. Taipei Fine Arts Museum paperback books
1990145790Mercer Island Washington: Starmont House 1990. Octavo illustrations by Tim Kirk pictorial boards. First hardcover edition. Starmont Hardcover Collection number 4. Short novel of adventure and romance on a strange planet. First published as a paperback by DAW in 1972. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #145790 Starmont House unknown books
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1995024651Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 1995. viii 358p. dj. Indiana University Press unknown books
199535379Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; purple cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; viii358pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket with some trivial wear to extremities. "In this fascinating volume world-famous scholar translators talk about their craft from a variety of perspectives confronting key issues of both theoretical and practical nature" from front flap. Indiana University Press unknown books
2009179459Taichung Taiwan: Council for Cultural Affairs Taiwan / National Taiwan Museum Of Fine Arts 2009. Softcover. VG. edge-wear w/ some creasing or curling to corners. interior clean. tight binding. illustrated wrappers w/ embossed printing & illustrations; english & chinese printing. illustrated french flaps. 139 pgs w/ color illustrations. Text in Chinese & English. Beautifully illustrated with the Chinese artist's works. Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan / National Taiwan Museum Of Fine Arts unknown books
196887788New York: Belmont Books 1968. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont Books B50-804. Light dust soiling to rear panel a nearly fine copy. #87788 Belmont Books unknown books
199816509Chicago: Learning Curve Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1890647527 . Great Railway Adventures: Series 1 Adventure 3. Illustrated by Charles S. Pyle. Third printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Learning Curve Publishing hardcover books
