1932. POUND, Ezra. TYPED POST CARD, SIGNED. Rapallo, Italy: March 26, 1932. Six typed lines, including the closing, on a 3 1/2" by 5 1/2" post card, signed "E Pound" in ink. It is addressed to F. Ankenbrand Esq | 2029 Widener Place | Philadelphia | U.S. America. The addressee..... More
1953. ELIOT, T. S. A TYPED LETTER WITH AN INK SIGNATURE, ADDRESSED TO THE REVEREND MAX. C. PETITPIERRE AT TOC H, LONDON CENTRE, C/O THE BURSARY, 19 DEAN'S YARD, S.W.1., DATED 3RD SEPTEMBER 1942. A single sheet, 7 x 8 inches, 7 typed lines on Faber & Faber letterhead, on..... More
1953. ELIOT, T. S. A TYPED LETTER WITH AN INK SIGNATURE AND AN INK ANNOTATION, ADDRESSED TO THE REVEREND W. R. LEWIS AT ARDINGTON VICARAGE, WANTAGE, BERKSHIRE, AND DATED 27 OCTOBER 1953. A single sheet, 8 x 7 inches, 12 typed lines on Faber & Faber letterhead, on one side..... More
1969. Serizawa Keisuke 芹沢銈介. Serizawa Keisuke Tebikaejō 芹沢銈介手控帖. Showa 44 [1969]. Tokyo. Kyūryūdō 求龍堂, publisher. 28 x 26.5cm album with paper-covered boards is housed in a fabric-covered clamshell box 30.1 x 25.8cm with title stamped on box spine. Stored in a cardboard box 32 x 30.5cm with printed title label..... More
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1939. Onchi Kōshirō 恩地孝四郎. [Chūgoku Fūkei Chinese Landscape #6] [中国風景 6号]. [Oil Painting]. [1939]. Image size approx 41 x 32cm and frame size approx 54.5 x 45.5cm. Oil on canvas. Signed by the artist. Oil painting of a landscape likely exhibited at the show, Onchi Kōshirō Shina Fūkei Gaten..... More
1872. (PICTURESQUE AMERICA). PICTURESQUE AMERICA. Or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canyons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country. With illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists. Edited by William Cullen Bryant..... More
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1977. SORIMACHI Shigeo, editor. KO^BUNSO^ TOKUBAI KOSHOMOKU Dai Yonju^kyu^-go. Tokyo: Ko^bunso^, Sho^wa 52 [1977]. 4to, wrappers, illustrated in b+w. 300 items. The 49th in Sorimachi Shigeo's fine series of sales catalogues. Sorimachi was the most eminent antiquarian bookman of the postwar period in Japan. His book and manuscript catalogues serve..... More
1957. MISHIMA, Yukio. FIVE MODERN NO PLAYS. Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American edition. 8vo., 8vo., black cloth-backed brick paper-covered boards; illustrated; [xx] + [202 pp.]. Near fine, with just a touch of soil, rubbing to board-edges, in a spine-darkened, mildly..... More
1969. REICHARD, Gladys A. MELANESIAN DESIGN. A Study of Style in Wood and Tortoiseshell Carving. Volumes I & II [Bound in one]. Near York: AMS Press, (1969). 4to., tan cloth; black & white illustrations. Fine. More
1967. WALDSCHMIDT, Ernst and Rose Leonore. NEPAL: ART TREASURES FROM THE HIMALAYAS. New York: Universe Books, (1970). HC w/dj. About very good. Art. More
1983. MUSEUM FUR OSTASIATISCHE KUNST. NETSUKE INRO U.A. SAGEMONO. Text in German, English, and French. Koln: Museum Fur Ostasiatische Kunst, 1983. HC. Very good plus. Netsuke. More
1932. ELIOT, T.S. JOHN DRYDEN BY T.S. ELIOT. THE POET. THE DRAMATIST. THE CRITIC. New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932. Small 8vo. 67pp. Mulberry paper-covered boards Lettered in gilt on black paper label on front and spine. Light foxing to top edge. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket..... More
[EMAKI - HANDSCROLL]. HANDSCROLL OF DUCK IMAGES Ishizaki Koyo, artist. Emaki handscroll in decorated handmade Japanese paper with a blank title label, internally sealed. 5.545 meters in length, 26.2 cm in height, image size. A series of art anatomical drawings of a male magamo (mallard) Uses a technique of depiction..... More
1925. [BIRDS & FLOWERS] Tsuchida EISHO, Takeuchi SEIHO, artists. EISHO HYAKUCHO GAFU. 4 vols., complete, 22.7 X 33.1 cm., Kyoto, Unsodo, Taisho 3, 3, 12, 14 [1914, 14, 23, 25]. Profusely illustrated set of images of birds, often quite surreal renderings, ostensibly after design by Tsuchida Eisho, the mid-19th century..... More
1978. STRAND, Mark. THE LATE HOUR. New York: Atheneum, 1978. Large 8vo. 48pp., printed on recto only. Uncorrected proof. Pale blue wrappers, unprinted. Editor's working copy, annotated by poet Dan Halpern in blue ink. Minimal wear. Spine lightly sunned. Fine. More
1993. STRAND, Mark. A SUITE OF APPEARANCES. Portland: Charles Seluzicki, 1993. Oblong 8vo. Signed Limited Edition. #27 of one hundred and fifty copies. Signed by Strand on limitation page. Paste paper wraps with printed title label to front. Fine. More
1931. ELIOT, T.S. TRIUMPHAL MARCH. London, Faber & Faber Ltd., 1931. First Edition. Unpaginated. Illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Grey pictorial wrappers, lettered in black. A nice clean copy. Fine. [a]. More
1926. HEARN, Lafcadio. INSECTS AND GREEK POETRY. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. First edition, 1/550 copies. 12mo, blue paper boards. Ownership, colophon page and rear free endpaper chipped at corner; otherwise a lovely copy, in the tissue wrapper. More
1931. (HEARN, Lafcadio). BLUE GHOST. A Study of Lafcadio Hearn. [By] Jean Temple. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931). 8vo, blue cloth, spine stamped in white; 228pp. + ads. Spine sunned and worn, with some wear at heel and crown, moderate soiling, this copy is just good... More
1924. (HEARN, Lafcadio). LAFCADIO HEARN'S AMERICAN DAYS. By Edward Larocque Tinker. Designed and illustrated by the author. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. First edition. A fine fresh copy with just slight soiling to boards. More
1918. HAVELL, E. B. THE HISTORY OF ARYAN RULE IN INDIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF AKBAR. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company [n.d. ca. 1918]. First American edition (English sheets). xxxi + 583 pp. 8vo., brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Light rubbing, a...... More
1932. [Multiple Artists], Hardy Jowett, author. Chinese Costumes 中華服物考略 [Zhōng huá fú wù kâo lüè]. 1932. Peiping [Peiking], China: The Chinese Painting Association of Peiping. 32 x 22cm silk-covered boards, bound with cord. Front board is embroidered with multicolor flowers and a butterfly. Table of Contents in English as well..... More
1892. [Crepe Paper Book] Bostwick, Lt. F. M. KOHANASAN. 10 Hiyoshicho, Tokio: T. Hasegawa Meiji 25 [1892]. 1st edition. 19.4 x 16.6 cm, Many color woodcuts throughout, unpaginated. The original printed covers are a bit worn and soiled with a nick on the top edge. One of the more unusual..... More