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21043704Tientsin 1932. Red cloth very good 108p. English text 25 b.w. collotype photos of Chinese girls privately printed 18 x 24.5 cm. minor detent to title page else clean copy. NO dj FIRST & ONLY EDITION EXCEPTIONALLY RARE & OBSCURE . . . A KEEN INSIGHT ON CHINESE "SING SONG" . . . & OTHER ENTERTAINMENT GIRLS . . . FIRST & ONLY PRIVATE EDITION . This work was originally written in Russian by E. De Laberbis. Then it was translated by Mr. Grin I.L. Miller the editor of the Russian Daily "Nasha Zaria." The book was privately published by the translator. . This fascinating illustrated work is devoted to the Chinese girl; the various types are explained by the author. He had much experience with "sing-song" dancers "entertainers " others most whom were disguised prostitutes. . This work is a photographic essay with accompanying text. Each girl "type" is discussed showing her photograph with her traits and attributes. This book covers the intricate phase of Chinese social life hitherto not set down into writing customs habits the live of "sing-song" girls how they are in North China: Tientsin Peking Hong Kong & Shanghai descriptions correct in every detail based on the author's personal private and very personal primary observations! . These girls were found work in cabarets some were called "dancers actress entertainers circus performers dramatic artists popular ballet & dancing girls" as well as movie starlets high & low class prostitutes and were "companions" to foreigners. . Considered "social outcasts" they were banned from "respectable Chinese" society. Due to overwhelming Western influences and changes taking place in China in addition to the profuse number of very willing foreign men the swelling ranks of "professional" women flourished during the hay day of night life in 1920-30's China. As quoted per the dust jacket notes by YANG Pao Ling. . Many of these women were stunningly beautiful and charming. They were fashionable and wore marvelous clothes and jewelry most of which were gifts from their appreciative clients. They were knock outs and they were in great demand ! . A very fascinating and very RARE primary resource on the "pleasure girls" of China. The title page shows Mr. Grin editor of the Russian Daily "Nasha Zaria" next to the author's name a play on words a pun. . Color photos are posted to our website. . RARITY: FIRST & ONLY SMALL OBSCURE EDITION: This obscure and R A R E work was copyright by and printed for the author and was not distributed by the usual sources due to the "indiscreet" subject nature. . The book was therefore privately distributed or sold to the author's cronies friends and "partners in crime." . This obscure gem is seldom found for sale on the market and has always been exceptionally RARE ! . When found with the original dust jacket this gem is even mo e RARE !t . Not all copies have the dust jacket to see this please view spine.jpg on our website. Cover.jpg is a photo of the book covers. . . . unknown
1978157<p>Illustrated poster silkscreened in heavy black ink on good paper. Sheet is 26 x 20 in ; image is 18.5 x 13 in. 50 or fewer copies are known to have been printed. </p><p><i>An excellent copy obtained directly from flat file storage by the exhibition curator Marc Miller. Minor mar-ginal toning else near fine. </i><i>Miller tells us that this poster was created by students in Al Brunele's printmaking workshop at School of Visual Arts in vanishingly small numbers advertising an exhibition of works by "</i><i>Diego Cortez John Holmstrom M. Henry Jones Robert Mapplethorpe Ruth Marten Miller-Ringma-Hoppe Pat Place Screaming Mad George Arturo Vega and more…"</i> <i>Originally presented in D.C. with Washington Project for the Arts from May 10-June 15 1978 Punk Art was staged at SVA's amphitheater in New York City as a one-night-only multimedia event in November 1978. The exhibition resurfaced in June of 1979 as an exhibition at Art Something gallery in Amsterdam Holland. </i><i>It is widely acknowledged to have been one of the first group art exhibitions to have been curated from the point-of-view of punk aesthetics.</i></p> School of Visual Arts
1997201613Newtown Powys: Gwasg Gregynog 1997. Hardcover. VG/VG. Hardcover with red cloth spine and BW decorative printed cover in matching hardbound case. 54 pp of text with 17 leaves of BW plates : illustrations. The end and the beginning -- Sampson the scholar -- The gestation of a Gregynog Press title -- The making of the book -- The engravings. In a slipcase./ "This book was printed and bound at Gregynog by David Esslemont David Vickers and Alan Wood. The typeface is Monotype Bembo and the papers used are Zerkall mould-made and Japanese Gampi Vellum hand-made. The wood engravings were printed by hand from the original blocks. Assistants: Ben Williams and Lisa Hunt. The edition is limited to 200 copies of which fifteen numbered I-XV are presented in a special binding together with an additional set of the engravings. One hundred and eighty-five copies numbered 1-185 are bound in quarter cloth. Copy number 50"--Colophon./ Includes bibliographical references. Gwasg Gregynog hardcover
196866429US: Grossman Publishers 1968. First Printing. Hardback. Very Good /Very Good. First Printing. Tan cloth over boards with white and orange titling to spine and author's name in white to front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is clean and unmarked top edge is sprayed orange. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight spine slightly leans. Dust jacket has tanning to spine and along spine edge at front cover scattered scuffing faint color markings near title at center of front cover and creasing to edges corners and ends of spine; closed tear to top front corner and small closed tear to headcap. Grossman Publishers unknown
194918437New York: Viking Press 1949. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good bound in original orange cloth-covered boards bound with illustrated end papers with a Very Good original dust jacket. Minor edge wear and a few tears to jacket. Toning. 8vo 8 1/4"h x 5 3/4"w. <br /> <br /> Death of a Salesman reshaped modern theater with its searing examination of ambition disillusionment and the fragile promise of the American Dream. Miller’s masterwork won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award cementing its place as a defining cultural touchstone. A true first edition is not only a milestone for collectors of modern literature and theater but also a rare opportunity to own the earliest printed form of a work that continues to influence writers directors and audiences worldwide. Viking Press hardcover
19498332New York. The Viking Press. 1949 March. Bound in pictorial decorated and titled orange cloth. Pictorial endsheets. 8vo. First Printing of the First Edition with all appropriate points of issue including broken type to page 11 and tinted top edge. Later issue dustwrapper with $2.50 price award emblem to front panel and lacking authors photograph. Very slight sunning to very top 2mm of spine. A Fine crisp copy. A Very Good bright dustwrapper presenting a short closed tear to spine several tiny chips to top and bottom edges. Short crease to top of rear panel. Old tape reinforcement on back of jacket. The Viking Press. hardcover
20092012049108Aspen Publishers 2009. Ringbound. Very good. No dust jacket. Minim. Aspen Publishers unknown
1939140937261Norwalk CT: New Directions 1939. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing first state. Signed by Henry Miller with a long inscription on the front free end paper reading "For Marie - to replace the Cyclopean eye with which she scans the horizon in search of buzzards evening stars and moth balls from the Grand Cosmocrator / signed Henry Valentine / Santa Monica / 8/24/41." Bound in publisher's beige cloth boards with brown fiber specks with spine lettered in brown and brown and white image of an eye in clouds pasted on the front cover lacking the dust jacket. Very Good or better with toning to edges and spine and a small stain to the spine. Pages toned endsheets offset. Hinge at title page exposed though binding is firm. Uncommon signed in the first state. Shifreen & Jackson A23a. New Directions unknown
19391308150New Directions 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket inscribed by Miller on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. New Directions hardcover
190912475Vincent Parke & Co. Very Good. 1909. Hardcover. Complete set of 15 leather-bound books -- eight Latin seven Greek. Volume One contains the certificate signed by editor-in-chief confirming that this is #17 in a limited "Parnassus" editon of 750. All books tightly bound. Pages unmarked and barely aged -- some even uncut. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Gilt top edge. Green ribbon bookmarks -- all in good condition. Tissue paper protection for frontispieces and other plates. Other fine touches -- tipped-in goddess plate opposite certification page; gilt-decorated title page; marbled end-pages. Leather covers with tilt titles and embossed design on front. Cover have some wear at corners and spine tips and a few volumes have some other general wear on spine covers -- but overall a classic production maintained in great condition. ; Parnassus Edition . Vincent Parke & Co. hardcover
20211-0357634853Cengage Learning 2021. Paperback. New. 13 edition. 1056 pages. 10.04x9.13x2.01 inches. Cengage Learning paperback
42333saying that he expects "to be here when you arrive in June. Please call me when you arrive. The telephone number is 454-408 unlisted. If I don't answer leaver your name & number with my answering service." on the verso of a coloured reproduction of his painting 'One Fish' 6" x 4" no place but with an American stamp 5th August Miller was an American novelist short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study social criticism philosophical reflection stream of consciousness explicit language sex surrealist free association and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer Black Spring Tropic of Capricorn and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris all of which were banned in the United States until 1961. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism and painted watercolours. unknown
20201-0357129636CENGAGE Learning Custom Publishing 2020. Hardcover. New. 15 edition. 1248 pages. 10.00x8.00x1.50 inches. CENGAGE Learning Custom Publishing hardcover
20211-0357634691Cengage Learning 2021. Paperback. New. 13 com edition. 1008 pages. 9.75x8.00x1.50 inches. Cengage Learning paperback
20012037hoDenver: Centipede Press in 2001 still Cocytus Press 2001. Limited First Edition of only 300. Hardcover. Fine/no dj as issued. Denis Tiani Harry O. Morris Lynd Ward and others. Centipede Press 2001 in 2001 still Cocytus Press designed and composed by Jerad Walters limited edition of 300. . 8 × 12 inches 357 pages Short stories by Robert Coover John Collier Donald Barthelme Patricia Highsmith Thomas Wiloch and others.<br /> Essays by Henry Miller James Baldwin Robin Wood Susan Sontag and Lane Roth.<br /> Poetry by Louise Bogan and G. Sutton Breiding.<br /> Artwork by Denis Tiani Harry O. Morris Lynd Ward and others.<br /> Oversize book with black cloth and four-color frontispiece.<br /> Published October 2001.<br /> Prospectus: 10 x 6.5 inches 30 pages 2 survey forms and 2 'Thank you' pages plus reply envelope.<br /> Condition of book and prospectus FINE. -- "Our first publication this large 8 × 12 book includes fiction by Patricia Highsmith Robert Coover Cynthia Asquith; essays by Henry Miller Robin Wood James Baldwin; art byHarry O. Morris Thomas Wiloch Denis Tiani Fritz Eichenberg Lynd Ward; poetry film essays film stills and a lot more.<br /> This book was nominated for two World Fantasy Awards back in 2002." Centipede Press. Centipede Press (in 2001 still Cocytus Press) hardcover
1838896F12London: Henry Colburn 1838 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. The first edition of Thomas Miller's vanishingly scarce mid-nineteenth century historical novel. The first edition of this very scarce work complete in three volumes.The work of English poet and novelist Thomas Miller one of the most prolific English working-class writers of the nineteenth century.A historical novel and work of political fiction set in the days of King John and subtitled 'A Historical Romance'.With the inscription of H. R. Clifton 1877 to the verso of the front free endpaper of each volume and with the inscription of Henry Spencer Markham to the front pastedown of each volume. Markham was Rector of Clifton and Prebendary of York.Library stamps to title page versos with no further library markings. In half calf bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Gilt detailing to back strip. Rubbing to centre of boards and to joints. Inscriptions to front pastedowns and versos of each front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Library stamps to versos of title pages. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Henry Colburn hardcover
2018Adhya-9781138848535T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2018. Hardcover. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE hardcover
2018Adhya-9781138848535T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2018. Hardcover. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE hardcover
2018Atlantic-9781138890329Routledge 2018. 1. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2018Atlantic-9781138890329Routledge 2018. 1. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2018Adhya-9781138668416T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2018. Hardcover. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE hardcover
2018Adhya-9781138668416T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2018. Hardcover. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE hardcover
2018Adhya-9781138890329T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2018. Hardcover. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE hardcover
2018Adhya-9781138890329T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2018. Hardcover. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE hardcover
2018Atlantic-9781138848535Routledge 2018. 1. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
