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17446New York: The John Day Company 1972. Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. Fine. The signed limited edition of The Selected Works of Pearl S. Buck the complete 11-volume set all signed by Pearl S. Buck on the limitation page. Quarter white leather paper boards title printed in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt on each volume. Most appear unread. This set limited to 1000 copies was created by the John Day Company to honor the eightieth birthday of Pearl S. Buck. All volumes are signed on a limitation page with each volume numbered 113. A fine set. Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973 wrote over 80 books including novels biographies and children's literature. Her most famous work The Good Earth 1931 won the Pulitzer Prize and helped her become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. The John Day Company unknown
1972128786John Day 1972. Leather. Like New. 11 volume collection of Buck signed limited edition 25 of 1000. Gilt titled leather spine over paper boards. Top edge gilt. No jackets as issued. Look unread. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. John Day hardcover
EBS100172New Haven: Yale University Press 1968; 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Alchemy and the Occult is an essential bibliographic reference that catalogs one of the most comprehensive private collections of alchemical and occult literature ever assembled. The work spanning four volumes meticulously documents rare books manuscripts and printed materials related to alchemy esotericism astrology magic and early chemistry. The Mellon Collection housed at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is one of the most prestigious collections of its kind featuring hundreds of primary texts from the medieval Renaissance and early modern periods. The catalogue serves as both an academic resource and a historical record providing scholars with insights into the intellectual traditions of alchemy and occultism. Bound in full two toned cloth with leather labels at spine. Folio: in orig. slipcase usual external wear but still VG internal condition excellent. Only 500 sets were published. Complete copies such as ours are now scarce on the market. Of considerable bibliographic and historic interest this impressive achievement minutely describes 160 printed works Vols. 1-2 and 149 manuscripts in the collection beginning chronologically with Apollonius circa 1225 and ending with Thomas Taylor 1790. A splendid catalogue that includes detailed bibliographical descriptions for each of the 160 printed books; each is described with painstaking accuracy and appears with illustrations. In Vols. 3-4 the 149 manuscripts are minutely described most of these were purchased by Mellon from Denis Duveen. These four volumes represent some of the "crown jewels" in the kingdom of hermetic bibliography and continue to inspire and inform students and scholars of Witchcraft Wicca Pagan Ritual Occult folklore anthropology primitive races and customs Mythology Ancient Magical Practices Ritual and Initiation Secret Societies Rosicrucian Egyptology Ancient Magical practices Aleister Crowley Andrew Chumbley Ceremonial and Black Magic Grimoire O.T.O. Golden Dawn Alchemy Hermetics Freemasonry Kabalah Cabala Kenneth Grant Austin Osman Spare Chaos Magick Church of Satan Anton LaVey Michael Aquino Temple of Set Demonology Satanism and more. From the famed B.H. Breslauer collection sale of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana at Christie's New York 27 June 2005 lot 1582 with letterpress bookplates loosely inserted into each volume. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968; 1977 hardcover
1918140944922New York: Henry Holt and Company 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. First printing with title page dated 1918 and "Published May 1918" on copyright page. vi 363 1 6 ads pp. Bound in publisher's blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. A Fine copy with a few minor spots of foxing to fore edge but bright and clean both inside and outside in a Fine dust jacket with just a hint of sunning to spine panel. Rare in such a lovely jacket.<p>The second novel by bestselling author and poet Pearl L. Curran who claimed to be channelling the spirit of Patience Worth a 17th century English immigrant to America. In a Smithsonian Magazine article Gioia Diliberto writes: "Speaking through a Ouija board operated by Pearl Lenore Curran a St. Louis housewife of limited education Patience Worth was nothing short of a national phenomenon in the early years of the 20th century. Though her works are virtually forgotten today the prestigious Braithwaite anthology listed five of her poems among the nation's best published in 1917 and the New York Times hailed her first novel as a 'feat of literary composition.' Her output was stunning. In addition to seven books she produced voluminous poetry short stories plays and reams of sparkling conversation-nearly four million words between 1913 and 1937.". Henry Holt and Company hardcover
2012103701Rizzoli. New. 2012. Hardcover. 0847839168 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 248 pages; illustrated with many color and some black and white images. -- with a bonus offer-- . Rizzoli hardcover
2016126502Princeton University Press. New. 2016. Hardcover. 0691172692 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- with a bonus offer-- . Princeton University Press hardcover
200015718West Nyack New York U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr. New. 2000. Hardcover. 0521773628 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless -- with a bonus offer-- . Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
197837353MInneapolis MN: Mary Ellen Enterprises. As New. 1978. Spiral Bound. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - 95 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . Mary Ellen Enterprises unknown
2011101187Gallery. New. 2011. Folded Broadsheet. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 10-sided folded broadsheet with essay and 11 illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . Gallery unknown
16155Pearl Buck archive of 3 items a TLS and two typescripts. Pearl S. Buck was the first American female laureate and used her work to advocate for child refugees and women. TLS 1 pg 1957. The letter is signed in full by Buck. She states she is sending an editor 2 texts promoting post war child adoption. Also her original Typescript 25 pages titled "Children Waiting"; and a second Pearl Buck Typescript 19 pages titled "What we can do about Children Waiting" Both Typescript have important content on adoption of children in Asia specially by American soldiers and include hand annotations. <br/><br/>In part: "Two babies came from adoption agencies where they were considered unadoptable because it was difficult to find adoptive parents to "match" them. I was sure that there must be good families matching or not who could love these babies and indeed there were. . .Yet I continue acutely and constantly aware of the thousands of children waiting. . . . These are the citizens of my new world the children without parents and the parents without children pressing eagerly toward each other and yet unable to reach each other. A barrier stands between a high wall and in the middle of the wall is a narrow gate kept locked until a social agency unlocks it a little way and lets one child through at a time. . . .Nobody knows truthfully how many children are in our orphanages. There are many kinds of orphanages. most children are not perfect and so on. They can be helped to want a handicapped children a child of mixed origin or any child at all. . . . We can tear down the walls that keep them prisoners of red tape prejudice and religious division. . . . We can refuse to accept the excuse that there are not enough children to satisfy adoptive parents. unknown books
1931143665New York: The John Day Company 1931. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100 line 17. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. Over eighty years have passed since The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know and I know nothing but China having always lived there" wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who want to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. The John Day Company unknown
1956165<i>John Day New York 1956 . No other dates. VG/VG- Rare edition in Rare DJ. Collectible copy of hard to find book in early printing. Burnt orange hardcover in VG condition . Slight bumping to spines. Light shelf wear to edges and corners. Tight clean copy. A few tiny spots on first fly leaf otherwise no marks no book plate no P O no stickers no foxing no smells. DJ shows wear. Tears at top and bottom of spine as well corners and edges. Statement by Sterling North on the back of DJ "In Defense of the Novel".<br /><br />Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriquing rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi - Empress of China in youth a beautiful concubine in middle life a brilliant strategist in old age a goddess. Tzu Hsi was feared and hated by many in the court but adored by the people. The Empress's rise to power parallels the story of China's transition from the ancient to modern way.<br /></i> John Day hardcover
19467700Wash. DC.: GPO 1946. First Edition. 39 parts and final report SD244. Illus. maps plates etc. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Complete file of all published. A compilation of mammoth scope and great research value.some ex-lib markings GPO unknown books
1982mon0000001021Yale University Press 1982-09T. hardcover. Very Good. 0.7087 in x 7.7953 in x 5.3543 in. 1st edition 1st printing with complete number line. Hardcover with very good dust-jacket. Clean and solid. No tears stains or odors. NOT a book club edition. NOT ex-library. Hand-wrapped and packaged in cardboard. Yale University Press hardcover
19462509270069Government Printing Office Washington 1946. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 19 volumes of 39. Publisher's wraps. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear. Includes parts: 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 27 28 37 38 39. These parts include part of the Hearings of November 15 1945 through May 31 1946 Parts 8 & 9; Most of the Joint Committee exhibits no. 1-183 Part 12-21; Proceedings of Roberts Commission Part 22-25; Proceedings of Army Pearl Harbor Board Part 27-28; Proceedings of Hewitt inquiry Part 37-38; Reports findings and conclusions of Roberts Commission Army Pearl Harbor Board Navy Court of Inquiry and Hewitt inquiry with endorsements Part 39. Government Printing Office, Washington paperback
193512233445665<p>The sole UK printing published by George Harrap & Co.Ltd London in 1935. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. Light pushing at the spine ends and corners. A hint of toning and spotting the text-block. Free from reassures bookplates and inscriptions. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. Some small losses to the spine ends and corners more-so at the upper spine tip but not involving any lettering. A little light spotting and age related markings in places. The wrapper artwork by Pearl Binder is striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Black-and-white illustrations some full pages throughout. Writer illustrator folklorist an artist Pearl Binder's wildly scarce book which seeks to document the London lives of 10 individual types of EastEnders. Binder builds vivid and hilarious and often irreverent portrait of ten London characters of the early 1930s. These include an ostler named Bill a keeper of horses usually at inns but in this case for the Tower of London who began his work life as 'a butter slapper' ; a phrenologist the White Chapel Bell Foundry workers notable that there is a cause to try still to save the foundry today ; the wax workers of Madame Tussaud's a Bloomsbury bohemian an antique dealer a sex worker assigned the name Poule de Luxe by Binder a mixed race woman running an illegal Chinese lottery game called 'Pukka-Poo'. Parts of the book are certainly laugh-out-loud funny and the character descriptions are rich. Her portrait of 'the bohemian' describes a man named Basil who 'had learned by now to scoffr at everything except Picasso Cocteau and Gertrude Stein at mention of whom he came attention as stiffly as any English colonel before the Union Jack'. 'Odd Jobs' celebrates the East End diversity vibrancy in life and demonstrating Binder's commitment to Londons working class but inevitably reflects stereotypes of the era. At the same time Binders artwork and words are an evocative documentation of a pre-World War II city that was soon changed forever. She dedicated the book to 'To my friends Professor Bronislaw Malinowsky and Elsie Malinowsky These True Stories'. The daughter of a Jewish Tailor and a mother whose origins are not documented Binder moved to London after World War 1 and studied lithography at the Central School of Art and Design. She both illustrated books for other writers who documented London life and wrote and illustrated her own. She was a great supporter of the Pearlies the working class and womens rights. A very good copy of an exceedingly scarce title and an important book for collectors of London life. I can locate no other copies in commerce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> George Harrap & Co.Ltd, London hardcover
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17365preserved in a quarter morocco custom slipcase. A few pages are trimmed at the top with no loss of text perhaps to excise page number which was then corrected in ink; very attractive original condition. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. An early draft of the manuscript in mixed format consisting of original typescript original pencil holograph and original ink holograph with corrections by Buck in both ink and pencil. There is considerable variation from the final published text. unknown
19465303<p>Quarto 29.5x21 cm. 81 pp. In unusually fine condition. Nicely preserved. Czech postwar avant-garde. Original mimeograph with illustrations photographs and photomontages. Printed as a manuscript and reproduced thus by Fechtner. A dadaist-spirited anthology of texts viewing the period of German occupation through a prism of nonsense and ridiculing those leading the way towards the bright future. The first doctored photo shows a group of people standing outside a building with a plaque that reads "In this house Pankrac Perla the founder of Recesse Is Still Snowing did not live." Pankrac Perla is the collective pseudonym for the "recessiste" or Mischief-makers an informal student group consisting of Ladislav Rychmann who later directed the first Czech musical Starci na chmelu painter and composer Frantisek Chaun the actor Josef Chvalina film historian and grandson of Jaroslav Vrchlicky Myrtil Frida and translator Jiri Becka among others formed in the late 1930s who drew partly on the humor of writers such as Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek or Jaroslav Zak and partly on dadaism and surrealism. Czech scholars have attributed the influence of the Mischief-makers on the post-war generation of Czech intellectuals. The Czech language is the only language in the world that uses "recession" or economic decline to also mean joking irony and satire and a number of Czech linguists trace this second meaning to the group's creation of a specific type of humor bordering on the edge of slapstick absurdity and nonsense. The first story here Skurda v okupaci Skurda During the Occupation continues the adventures of the group's favorite protagonist Jordan Skurda first introduced in their 1937 novel We're Going to Bodele - Escape from the Sahara. The Mischief-makers were criticized by their elders for attacking authority of all kinds - parents teachers and officials - and the Czech fascist press seized upon their writings and pranks to criticize them as products of the Czechoslovak educational system. Petr Koura Literary noviny. Yet the fascists weren't alone: criticism of the group's influence on the Czech youth and their failure to take art seriously appears in the literary revue Kriticky mÄ›siÄnÃk in 1940. The humor collected in this anthology is unrelenting such as one letter to the Nazi ministry suggesting they ban senior citizens from feeding pigeons and put them to work; musicians too since violinists would could use their arm motions to saw wood with mathematical formulas backing up the claims. Another interesting contribution is the A Moment of Silence for the Final Congress of Coffee Tasters - in memory of the first "Dadaing" of Tristan Tzara - consisting of a three-page play with dadaists on rocking horses. OCLC locates on holding in North America Univ Toronto. Copies of this work when found are usually deteriorated; this copy fine.</p> Fechtner paperback
1954ZB394285Wayne State University Press 1954-2002. volumes 26; 28-29; 31; 34-35; 37-38; 40-60; 63; 66-74. 1954-2002. partly bound library markings textually clean & tight PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Wayne State University Press unknown
19511518AWA 1951. 1. hardcover. AWA hardcover
165834706London: Printed by John Field one of His Highness’s printers 1658. First Edition. Leather bound. Fair. 24mo 2-1/2 x 4-3/4" 1104 pp. A-2Z¹² engraved title page separate dated also 1658 letterpress title page on 2N6r for "The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" register is continuous. Straight-grain morocco spine gilt gilt border on both boards paste-paper end papers. Binding separating from the text block at the rear hinge. Front hinge repaired causing some stiffness opening the front cover. Rear paste down removed. Some loss at the fore-edges of a handful of pages a chip out of the engraved title page which is separating from the block age-toning to leaf A2 but otherwise clean and bright. Fair. <br /> <br /> Collates complete. A mixed state with 'Appointed' on the title page Jer. 2:26 'chief' for 'thief' and 2 Thess. 2:15 'Paul fast' for 'stand fast' though not 'Jesaiah' in the headline of Hh2v or John 7:31 'no miracles.' "According to the BM Catalogue this is the ’genuine’ bible; Fry and Lenox call it ’spurious’"-- Darlow & Moule. Darlow & Moule 662 Wing B2253 ESTC R23800. <br /> <br /> BOUND WITH The whole book of Psalms: collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches of all the people together before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons and moreover in private houses for their godly solace and comfort; laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads which tend onely to the nourishment of vice and corrupting of youth. <br /> <br /> London: printed by John Field one of His Highness’s Printers 1658. 90 pp. A-D9 lacking the final two leaves of text i.e. pp. 91-94. "In this edition title page line 5 ends: ’metre by’; page numbers are without brackets."--ESTC no priority. Wing B2470 ESTC R483411. One of two 1658 pocket-sized editions of the King James Bible printed using a pearl-sized font known as the "Pearl Bible." It is conjectured that one of the editions was printed by Field and the other "spurious" edition was foreign and/or pirated though it is difficult to establish which is "spurious" and which is "genuine" per A.S. Herbert This copy unusual for having all three components Old and New Testaments Psalms all dated 1658. Printed by John Field one of His Highness’s printers unknown
1946213199New York 1946. 1 vols. 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Blindstamp on recto. Atelier stamped on verso and with notations in ink giving the subject of the photograph "Pearl Bailey in St. Louis Woman"‚ the date of the sessions the number of the print. 1 vols. 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978. Inscribed "I don't care who sees me Pearl. unknown books
