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Meiji Period Photo Album, 50 Hand Colored Albumen Photographs.
by [Japan, Photography]. T. Enami & others (Studio).
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- Used
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- ca. 1890
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- Lacquer photo album
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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$1,500.00
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No place [Yokohama?], T. Enami & others, no date (ca. 1890s). Oblong Folio (12.5" x 15.5"), contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone, containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves, with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative.
Binding worn:… Read more about this item Item Price
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"Kofu-En Bonsai Nursery, Mr. Yuji Yoshimura ..."
by [Trade Catalog]. YOSHIMURA, Yuji.
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- Used
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- ca.1950's
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- Stapled paper wraps
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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$40.00
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Tokyo, Japan: Kofu-En Bonsai Nursery/ Yugi Yoshimura, no date in English, circa 1950's ? Duodecimo (7" x 5"), 34 unnumbered pages with illustrations from photographs of 58 Bonsai trees. Original stapled paper wraps. Text in Japanese except for rubber-stamped notice quoted in part above.
Moderately soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise Very Good.
Yoshimura (1921 - 1997) was a distinguished bonsai master largely… Read more about this item Item Price
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Victorian New Year Greeting Card, "To Wish You a Happy New Year, A Bull at his Best. Good Times Coming."
by Marcus Ward & Company (publisher).
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- ca. 1890
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- Greeting card
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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$25.00
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[London]: Marcus Ward & Company, no date (circa 1890). Original tinted lithograph printed on thick card stock measuring 4.75 inches by 5.75 inches. "For Emma" in old ink on the verso.
Slightly toned & soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise Near Fine.
A very cool card depicting, presumably, a fat cat banker bull peering through spectacles at a duck carrying a sign reading… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dolls on Display: Japan in Miniature, Being an Illustrated Commentary on the Girls' Festival and the Boys' Festival.
by CAIGER, G.
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- [1933]
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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$45.00
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Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press, [1933] (from colophon tipped to the last blank page). First edition Quarto 10.5" x 7.5"), xi & 141 pages including exhaustive illustrations from photographs in text & occasionally full page, with color frontis & 3 color plates (two folding). Publisher's original decorated purple silk over boards stabbed & cord-bound in the Japanese style, with applied printed… Read more about this item Item Price
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한국인 의 손, 한국인 의 마음, Han'gugin Ui Son, Han'gugin Ui Maum
by [Korea]. YI, O-nyong.
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- 1994
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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$45.00
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Seoul, South Korea: Dijain Hausu, 1994 First edition. Small square 4to, 143, [1] pp, including numerous color illustrations from photographs. Publisher's black-lettered pale green cloth in pictorial dust jacket Ribbon marker sewn in, text in Korean.
Upper margins of the covers slightly sunned, otherwise very good or better in lightly soiled dust jacket with moderate edge wear including a two… Read more about this item Item Price
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Game Fowl News: Devoted Exclusively to Pit Game Fowl. 5 issues.
by [Periodical, Cockfighting]. MERONEY, R.S. (editor & publisher).
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- Used
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- 1944 - 1947
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- Magazine
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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$95.00
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Asheville, North Carolina: RS Meroney, five issues: volume 20, numbers 10 & 11, December, 1944 & January, 1945; volume 22, number 3, May, 1946; volume 23, numbers 6 & 7, August & September, 1947 Small folios, 16 pp each, illustrated throughout Pictorial, stapled paper wraps
Soiling, foxing, browning, edge wear, creasing, some light staining, staples rusted (defects affecting some issues more… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Hundred Pictures of Daiku at Work. Two volumes.
by [Japan: Carpenters in art]. MURAMATSU, Teijiro.
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- (1974)
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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$175.00
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Tokyo: Shinkenchiku Sha, (1974). First edition thus. Complete in two quarto volumes, one with 100 accordion folded plates on double leaves (26 in color); the other (47 pp plus folding timeline chart) providing descriptive text in Japanese with English translation. Publisher's gilt-threaded black silk with printed paper title labels on the upper covers, in folding sleeve & slipcase, both in… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
Tribalism, Integration or Fission? A Decade of Decision in Southern Africa. [Cover title].
by LEE, Pamela Reynolds, with Introduction by Walter Darnell Jacobs.
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- Used
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- (1971)
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- Pamphlet
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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$30.00
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New York: American-African Affairs Association, (1971). First edition. 8vo, 18 pp. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps. Text in two columns.
Moderate edge wear including a couple of tiny losses, lightly rubbed, soiled, & tanned, otherwise Very Good.
The author was then Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Her study is based on extensive travels in… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00