Search Results: Titles starting with S from Camphor Bookstore

Series of old American songs : from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays at Brown University with brief annotations by S. Foster Damon, curator.Fifty songs reproduced in facsimile from original or early editions. This boxed collection dates to 1936. Each page has information about the history of the song, sheet music and lyrics. Issued in 51 unbound parts, each consisting of a sheet folded to form 2 or 3 leaves. The first part contains title, preface and contents; each of the others contains a song in facsimile, with appended notes.In near fine condition, in a box. Note: The collection contains a number of blackface minstrelsy songs, an early American theatrical form characterized by deeply racist stereotypes. The images and lyrics are offensive. The collection is offered in the spirit of scholarship to those interested in early American music.

Seurat. Gallery of Art series with text by Hermann Jedding
The Uffici Press, Milan (Milano), Italy. Stiff, folio sized. undated (c1960s), 26 pages including 10 tipped in full color reproductions of paintings the span the artist's life. In excellent unmarked condition, all plates present (plus a tipped in paste down on the cover.)

Shakespeare's Tragedies; Comedies; Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets. 3 Vols. Robert Rivière & Son Ltd. / Printed by Temple Press, London. (n.d. circa 1920s?) Three Beautifully bound volumes in red half-leather over cloth. Gilt tooled spine w ribs and titles. Top edges bright gilt. Housed in a cloth lined slipcase box. 981pp, [1]; 887pp, [1]; 847pp, [1]. 7"x5"x3.5" in in box. Elegant leather bound set, well made and in very good condition. The cloth wrapped slipcase box is discolored on the bottom. Unmarked, some discoloration to the leather at the bottom of the spine of the comedies volume.

The Short Novels of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
The Dial Press, New York, 1953. Third Printing. Hardcover, salmon cloth. 716pp Selected and with an intro by Philip Rahv. Traslated by Aylmer Maude. "Two Hussars", "Family Happiness", "The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852", "Polikúshka", "The Death of Iván Ilych", "The Devil, Master and Man", and "Hadji Murád.". A very good, clean, unmarked book, in the original jacket, which is faded but good despite a tear (please see photos)

Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records Of The Western WorldTranslated by Samuel Beal From The Chinese Of Hiuen Tsiang (Xuanzang), Ad 629
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd. 2004. Hardcover and jacket in near fine condition. 369pp w a folding map in the back. "Among the various travelogues, Hiuen Tsiang's (Xuanzang) Si-Yu-Ki or Records of the Western World, is regarded as perhaps the most valuable source book for the study of ancient Indian history.
Xuanzang (602 – 664), born Chen Hui / Chen Yi (陳禕), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mōkṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator. He is known for the epoch-making contributions to Chinese Buddhism, the travelogue of his journey to India in 629–645 CE, his efforts to bring over 657 Indian texts to China, and his translations of some of these texts. He was only able to translate 75 distinct sections of a total of 1335 chapters, "but his translations included some of the most important Mahayana scriptures.

Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning by Adrian FrutigerWatson-Guptill, 1998. Softcover. " Illustrated with over 2,000 line drawings by the author. 360 Pages,10 1/4" Tall. This classic study shows how humans express thought through graphic means and why certain shapes and configurations of dot and line are perceived and remembered more easily than others. In very good, unmarked condition.

Soho: A Picture Portrait by Carl GlassmanOlympic Marketing Corp, 1985. First edition. 23x20,5 cm. (95, 1 blank) pp. Original printed wrappers. A photographic portrait of NYC's Soho neighborhood in the 1980s during its heyday as a center for fashion, art / commerce. With an Introduction by John Leonard. Light wear to the cover wraps but unmarked and in VG condition.

Sons and Lovers by D. H. LawrenceDuckworth; London, Fourth impression, 1924.pp. vii, (i), 423, (i). Publisher's light blue cloth, no dust jacket, small tear at the top of the spine cloth- otherwise a very good, clean copy.About the book: Sons and Lovers is a semi-autobiographical novel by D.H. Lawrence, published in 1913. His first mature novel, it is a psychological study of the familial and love relationships of a working-class English family.

The Sunset of the Heroes: Last Adventures of the Takers of Troyby Winifred HutchinsonJ. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1926. Hardcover, second printing. Blue cloth with decoration and design in gilt and black. 8mo-over 6"-7" tall. 281 pp. A vintage retelling of the Trojan War legends with beautiful color plates and B&W illustrations by Herbert Cole. Illustrated endpapers. There's a Junior High School bookplate affixed in the front, and a little fading to the decoration on the spine. Otherwise in very good, unmarked condition.