Maya Quartos 1-13 by Hirschman, Jack; Benveniste, Asa; Eshleman, Clayton; Meltzer, David; Welch, Lew; Brandi, John; Bialy, Harvey; Duncan, Robert; Enslin, Theodore; Whalen, Philip; Bathurst, Bill; Corman, Cid; - 1969

New York. Aflred A. Knopf. 1935. Gilt titled and embossed black cloth. 12mo. 1st U.S. Edition. Signed by Mann on flyleaf. A Fine copy in the rare dustwrapper. Flyleaf has been trimmed short at bottom edge. Very mild chipping to headpiece of dustwrapper and some very light soiling to rear panel. An innocuous 2" inch ink stamp stating " Autographed Copy " appears at the very upper right edge of the dustwrapper 's front panel. A bright crisp unmarred signed copy of this Mann title in a Very Good original and very scarce dustwrapper. A Jewel.

San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co, 1871. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Very Good. January - June, 1871 (Issues 1-4, 6) of The Overland Monthly. Light wear to wraps. corners bent and a few short tears to edges of issue 2. Rear of issue 6 detached but present. The Grizzly Papers are notably more literary and thoughtful than his journalism of the period. Not in BAL (actually earlier than anything in BAL). Also includes Harte's "Further Language From Truthful James", his sequel to the poem known as The Heathen Chinee. Five issues in a custom clamshell box with morocco label. Faint soiling to blue cloth of box. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 033008.

New York:: Liveright,, 1933.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a touch of fading to the spine in aNear Fine unclipped dust jacket with a small chip at the fold of the heel of the spine and light edge wear to head of the spine. Copies of this last volume of Anderson's short stories is extremely rare in dust jacket especially in collectible condition, and featured fourteen powerful stories by the man who greatly influenced the writings of Hemingway, Henry Miller, and John Steinbeck..

Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Printing of the First US Edition. First Printing. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the front pastedown in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, and a short closed edge tear at the head of the spine. A collectible copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck fiction. This volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder"; "The Chrysanthemums," perhaps Steinbeck's most challenging story, both personally and artistically;… Read More

The Viking Press, New York, 1945. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Illustrated Edition. Book of the Month Club with the publisher's slipcase. A beautiful copy. The book is in excellent shape and is bound in the publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. It has one neat original bookplate of the previous owner. Otherwise the pages and book overall is clean with no writing or marks. An uncommonly nice-looking copy of a justifiably famous collection of four stories, illustrated profusely, including at endpapers, by Wesley Dennis in a four-color offset lithography process. The Panoramic, sweeping illustration at endpapers is breathtaking. Housed in a clean, Good condition cardboard slipcase, illustrated paper label complete and neatly affixed. Edges of pages are dark green. Tan linen cloth covers with green-ruled border to front cover, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. The Red Pony can be traced back to the fact that Steinbeck's father, John… Read More

San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co, 1871. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Very Good. January - June, 1871 (Issues 1-4, 6) of The Overland Monthly. Light wear to wraps. corners bent and a few short tears to edges of issue 2. Rear of issue 6 detached but present. The Grizzly Papers are notably more literary and thoughtful than his journalism of the period. Not in BAL (actually earlier than anything in BAL). Also includes Harte's "Further Language From Truthful James", his sequel to the poem known as The Heathen Chinee. Five issues in a custom clamshell box with morocco label. Faint soiling to blue cloth of box. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 033008.

London: printed for I. Tonson in Ye Strand, 1729. First Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine+. Large 4to: [18],450,xci,[1]pp, with engraved title page, four full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait of Waller engraved by Vertu after Kneller), and numerous superb head- and tailpieces and historiated initials. Contemporary cambridge-style calf, sides decorated in blind and framed with rat's tooth roll, ribbed spine richly gilt in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece gilt (chipped), plain period end papers. Near Fine or better, with light offsetting, sporadic foxing and the odd smudge, else clean and crisp throughout; joints very skillfully repaired, spine ends renewed. Provenance: signature of the bibliophile Douglas Grant in pencil to front fly-leaf. Wither to Prior 941. Grolier English 100, 27. First Collected Edition, the "most sumptuous ever published. It contains all the poems which had hitherto appeared, to which the editor has added four new . . . Waller's letter are… Read More

London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine, 1891.. Small quarto. Gilt green cloth backed cream cloth over boards, elaborately decorated in gilt and red. Plates, illustrations and decorated endsheets. Binding a bit darkened, with some pale discolorations at edge, 1895 ownership signature on preliminary blank, corners a trifle worn, the plates by Shannon somewhat faded (as usual) but still legible, a few small nicks and a short tear to the edges of the front free endsheet but a good, sound copy, a few leaves unopened. First edition. Design, illustrations and decorations by C. Ricketts and C. Shannon, with plates by the latter. One of one thousand copies printed. Mason/Millard gives an account of the circumstances which led to the faint state of the Shannon plates. Contains four short stories: "The Young King" (which first appeared in THE LADY'S PICTORIAL, Christmas Number, 1888), "The Birthday of the Infanta" (which first appeared in PARIS ILLUSTRÉ, March 30, 1889), "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The… Read More

London: The Society of Bibliophiles. Near Fine. 1898. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A handsome binding in red morocco with 5 spine bands over red marbled boards. Gilt decoration & lettering. Top edges gilt. Matching marbled endpapers. This is copy "C" of a limited edition of 26 with text printed on Japanese vellum paper. There is a triplicate set of each illustration: Aquarelle, Tint and Japanese Proof. Each illustration is protected by a labeled tissue guard. Vol #1: [xii, 402pp, 10 illus]. Vol #2: [6, 376pp, 6 illus]. Vol 3; [6, 404pp, 10 illus]. Vol # 4: [6, 318pp, 6 illus]. Vol # 1 is VG+ with light rubbing to spine top & corners. Vols #2 - 4 are near fine. Wikipedia: "First published in a single volume in 1555, THE FACETIOUS NIGHTS OF STRAPAROLA is a collection of 75 stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, it is significant as often being called the first European storybook to… Read More

1887 Samurai Daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi Handwritten Manuscript Japanese Taikouki

A rare, 19th century Japanese woodblock print of "Shinsho Taikouki". Taikouki is a biography describing the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a Japanese samurai and daimyo (lord) considered the second "Great Unifier" of Japan following Nobunaga and preceding the Tokugawa Shogunate. Hideyoshi left a lasting legacy including Osaka Castle, the Tokugawa class systems, the restriction of weapons, and the construction and restoration of many temples some of which are still visible in Kyoto. 'Shinsho Taikouki' depicts Toyotomi Hideyoshi's youth in particular.

This rare, handwritten biography is written in a column handwritten format with furigana for easier reading!

Item number: #15943
Price: $950
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Biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Shinsho Taikouki) 真書太閤記（しんしょたいこうき）
[Japan: Nobumitsu Kurihara [1887]]

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Collation: Complete with all pages;
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