Search Results: Authors starting with M from BATTLEDORE LTD

BEFORE AND AFTER OF MACARTHUR'S COLLAPSE 麦魔垮台前后
Shanghai: Published by Huohua Publishing House, distributed by all book agencies in China, 1951, FIRST EDITION, 5000 copies printed, a broken face of MacArthur on the front page, this book illustrates the evil deeds he did to Asia, and the success of the resistance war of the Chinese people. 15×15cm, printed pictorial wrappers, [iii] 66pp., final page defective, small loss along edge of front cover, chipped on the spine, repair to the left front corner., else very good condition.

1951年出版于上海火花出版社，全国各大书店报摊销售，第一版，共发现5000册。封皮图片为麦克阿瑟的支离破碎的丑恶头像，全书图文描述了麦克阿瑟在日本、朝鲜的罪恶行径和中国人民的英勇抗战。

MAGAZINE: Knowledge-Special Issue for 3 Years Anniversary 杂志《知识》纪念创刊三周年纪念号
Shenyang: Published by Northeast Bookstore, May 1, 1949, special issue for the 3-year anniversary of Knowledge magazine. Volume 11, Issue 2. 8vo, 37pp., Printed pictorial wrappers, Spine stapled, with 4 restapling holes on right, minor tears and stained to cover, shelf worn, overall good condition.
Shenyang Northeast Bookstore is the press was led by China Communist Party Propaganda Department. Chairman Mao wrote an inscription of quotation from Confucius "To learn something and timely practice it" for the magazine on the title page. The cover has a picture: Move Forward Under Chairman Mao's Flag, depicting a portrait of Mao and the Red Army, with army's flag as background, troops are moving forward below, handwriting on the bottom: Present to Members of All-China Youth Federation, music for 'Protect Peace of the World' on the back cover.… Read More

YOUNG CHINA Magazine年轻的中国
Toronto: the monthly magazine of the comradeship for China, the young People's Department of the China inland mission. 1933-1934, volume vii and viii, together 24 issues. Articles about the Chinese people written by journalists in China with photos illustrated for the rest of the world, Index of 2 volumes, including titles of paper making in china, Burmese girls at play, disbelieving does not change the truth, large 8vo, 143pp. +16 leaves index, bound in hard titled boards, near fine condition.
$850
《年轻的中国》1933-1934年出版于多伦多，1-12册，文章为在中国的记者写的关于中国的故事，配有照片和图片。18×25cm，硬皮包装为官方合订，共143页，后面有32页文章目录。

(Etiquette Manual)
Shogaku Jorei Shikizukai [Elementary Illustrated Etiquette Book for Young Women].
Tokyo: Sonbe Okura, 1880.
Composed and pictured by Adachi GINKO (1853-1908).
12mo, 7 inches high; 10 double-page accordion-style binding with vertical printed label on colored pictorial wrappers (small splits in a few folds, a couple neatly mended).
First edition.
Highly elaborate series of hand-colored woodblock diptych illustrations depicting etiquette lessons at a "finishing" school for young Japanese women. This comprises a series of illustrated "how to" lessons regarding talking with elders, praying, opening doors, conducting a tea ceremony, playing Go, &c. The final illustration shows women receiving their certificates after training is completed.
The artist GINKO worked between 1873 and 1908 under several studio names and is best known for his prints in the ukiyo-e style as a member of the Utagawa school. Working in a variety of genres, he often depicted beautiful women and actors,… Read More

PICTURE ALBUM: The Leader of China and Foreign Reactionaries and All of the Previous Opportunism is Confucianism 中外反动派和历次机会主义路线的投资都是尊孔派
Zhengzhou China: Zhengzhou Library and Zhengzhou Drama Group. March 1974. Starting with the Quotation from Chairman Mao, this book lists the reactionaries in China and abroad, including Confucius, Meng Zi, Lin Biao, Liu Shaoqi, Jiang Jieshi etc. illustrated with caricature and emphasis on their bad behavior. oblong 12mo, 24pp., minor tears to binding.

画册由1974年3月郑州市图书馆和郑州市话剧团编印，画册首页为毛主席语录，内容以图文的形式罗列了数个中外的反动分子。

MONTHLY MAGAZINE: PICTORIAL《连环画报》月刊
Beijing: China bimonthly periodical, started in 1951 by China Art Publishing House, distributor: Xin Hua Bookstore.
Inscribed by Mao Dun, magazine Pictorial was issued under Chairman Mao's instruction. 150,000 copies were printed for the first issue with a picture of Chairman Mao on its cover. Minor tears, overall good condition. Issues included: 1951, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1952, No.15 (14 issues)

《连环画报》，中国月刊，1951年创刊，中国美术出版总社主办。1999年1月，《连环画报》与《中国连环画》合并，新刊继承《连环画报》一名。… Read More

LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD 世界人民领袖
Shanghai: Printed and distributed by Sanmin Book Company, 1950, this book introduces 10 leaders of different countries with pictures and texts, including Stalin, leader of the world revolution movement, Chairman Mao of China, Choibalsan of Mongolia, Kim Il-sung of North Korea, Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam, Kyuichi Tokuda of Japanese Communist Party, Foster of America Communist Party, Pollitt of Great Britain, Thorez of France, Georgi Dimitrov of Bulgaria. 12mo, [ii] 38pp., wears to the spine, slight tear to the edge of front cover, else fine condition.… Read More

THE CRIMINAL RECORDS OF THE U.S. IMPERIALIST INVADING CHINA 《美帝国主义侵华罪行录》
Beijing: China Youth Publishing House, distributed by Xinhua Book Store, 1966, 12mo, 149pp.; pictorial paper wrappers.
17 stories with pictures are included in this book to demonstrate the U.S.'s aggression to China from 1840 to 1957, each story starts with a quotation from Chairman Mao. On page 72 there is a photo of draft found at a U.S. spy's home for attacking Tiananmen Square. Condition is very good.

本书由中国青年出版社出版，新华书店发行。12开，共149页，封皮有彩色图片。书内共有17个故事，每个故事都由毛主席语录引导，讲述了从1840年到1957年以来美国在中国的侵略行为。在第72页上，讲述了从一个美国间谍的家里搜到了要攻击天安门的草图。品相非常好。19×12cm。

SELECTED PROPAGANDA POSTERS OF AID VIETNAM AGAINST AMERICA 援越抗美宣传画选
Liaoning: Fine Art Press, December 1965, 9,000 copies. Printed by Liaoning Fine Art Press Printing Factory, Distributed by Liaoning Xinhua Bookstore. First Edition, printed pictorial wrapper, lacks 7 leaves, minor wear and tears to margin, else good condition. Posters depict the Vietnamese people fighting against the U.S. Army with guns and knives.

辽宁美术出版社1963年出版第一版，由新华书店发行，辽宁美术出版社印刷厂印刷。共9000册。封皮有缺失，全套应该是16张，现在剩余9张。品相较好。宣传海报主要描述了越南人民应用抗击美国士兵的图片。

EAST ASIAZuijin zhi Dongya Xingshi Tujie [Map Explaining the Latest Situation in East Asia]. Mainichi Shimbun Osaka Office, Japan, Showa period, 1937.Highly pictorial Japanese propaganda map of East Asia, issued just six months before the outbreak of the second Sino-Japanese War. The map focuses on China's military situation, and shows a separate Manchuria and Jidong Autonomous Region. Heavy industry, military communication and supply lines, airfields, and foreign military bases are delineated, with the note that there are '200,000 Communists' at the Chinese Communist Party's northern Shaanxi base. The projection of the map is such that it illustrates the 'horseshoe formation', showing Manchuria, 'the lifeline of Japan', as being surrounded by Japan's enemies.Chomo-lithographic map of East Asia, 780 x 1065 mm. Territories in yellow and identified with a red cross, other parts of the globe colored in green or red, explanatory title at foot, inset world map at lower left, labelled mainly in Japanese and… Read More

(MAP-BEIJING) LATEST MAP OF PEKING AND CHINA 最新版北京和中国地图
Beijing: Distributed by No. 1 Building Wenbao Zhai, Langfang Toutiao Hutong, Qianmen Wai Street, Beijing, circa 1912-1928.
Large colored map of downtown Beijing with the Forbidden City in the center. Two crossed flags of Republic of China (Beiyang Government) on the top of a map of China flanked by two maps of hemispheres; hotels, and Beijing Offices of other provinces of China were also listed and marked on the map. Map scale is on the bottom, signs are also provided on the two sides of the map on the top. Overall measurement: 31-1/4×21-3/4 inches, creased where folded, fine condition.

北京：北京前门外廊房头条胡同文宝斋总批发处，由国旗可推断时间在1912-1928年期间。… Read More

Cicero (Marcus Tullius):
Cicero cu[m] comme[n]to, commentary by Josse Badius, Nicolas Chappusius, and Francesco Maturanzio.
[Lyon], [Jacques Myt for Simon Vincent], [29 April, 1514].
4to., contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, spine in compartments and with later ms. title label, remains of metal clasps.
Gothic letter, title printed in red and black and woodcut printer's device (repeated on final verso) within woodcut historiated border, a few woodcut vignettes, woodcut decorative initials, first few ff. rubricated, wormed, most pronounced at beginning and end, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, endpapers wormed and detached, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, spine in compartments and with later ms. title label, remains of metal clasps, wormed, particularly wooden board of lower cover with some loss to it and vellum, some staining, soiled, [Not in Adams].
A rare edition, with only a handful of copies recorded by USTC.
Provenance: Sotheby's,… Read More

DODGSON (Charles L) "Lewis Carroll":
LAURENCIN (Marie) [1883–1956]
Alice in Wonderland. [Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930].
Complete set of six colored pastel drawings for this unusual Art Deco vision of ALICE, being the actual finished originals made by MARIE LAURENCIN inside a set of black and white outline designs printed as proofs on wove paper. Her original outlines would have been made directly on lithographic stones for printing whereas this manuscript series was prepared for the printers to create color-separation plates (which explains why the color-printed images in the book do not precisely match the published drawings).
Each picture is signed by the artist in colored pencil, with page size measuring 10-7/8 x 14-1/4 inches.
[Additional images available]
Together with: 6 canceled outline proofs from the printer E Desjobert, signed and dated "October 1930", with their printers' stamp. These measure 9-3/4 x 11-7/8 inches on tinted BFK wove paper.
This is one of the artist's most… Read More

PROVENSEN (Alice and Martin)
The Marmalade Man, 1981.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Illustration for A Visit to William Blake's Inn; Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981; double-spread, pp. 36-37)
Measures 12-1/2 x 20-5/8 inches
The book was both a Newbery Medal Award winner (1982), the first book of poetry to win the award; and a Caldecott Honor recipient for the illustrations (1982)

MARX (Karl, Carlos): O CAPITAL. Lisbon: Francisco Luiz Goncalves, 1912. Translated by Albano de Moraes. 8vo, 240pp with ink ownership inscription at head of half-title; contemporary cloth-backed boards, light bumping to spine ends and corners.
First edition thus, one of two Portuguese translations of Das Kapital to be published 1912, the first appearances of this text in Portugese. The other is translated by Emilia de Araújo Pereira, with no established priority between the two.

[KILNER (Mary Ann)]: Memoirs of a Peg-Top. By the Author of Adventures of a Pincushion. London: John Marshall, circa 1790. Frontispiece, engraved title-page and 27 woodcuts. 12mo, 90pp + [2] adverts listing other juvenile titles issued by this publisher; original dutch floral boards (lacking paper spine), covers still attached. Rare imitation of a Newbery-style issued by their chief competitor: OCLC records 7 copies from both sides of the Atlantic, but seldom in commerce. Heritage (Dallas) records only the Schiller copy (2020).

Sendak in Asia. Exhibition Catalogue.With 43 black and white, and 22 color illustrations. Oblong 8vo, [48]pp; pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Fine exhibition catalogue highlighting a myriad of works illustrated and written by this celebrated children's book writer and artist. The exhibition began in October 1996 at Maruzen Co. Ltd. galleries in Tokyo, Japan, travelling in December to Kyoto and Nagoya and then to Neilson Hays Library in Bangkok, Thailand in January 1997. Illustrating more than eighty books, Sendak's original art is in constant demand by private collectors everywhere. Nearly all of his artwork is archived at the Rosenbach Museum and Library (Philadelphia). Past loan exhibits have been presented at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, England) and The Pierpont Morgan Library (New York), while commercial galleries have offered modest shows with work on loan from the artist. Significant drawings are rarely ever offered for sale, especially his highly finished pencil studies which precisely detail… Read More

SENDAK (Maurice): At Home With Jack And Guy
Kingston, NY: Battledore Ltd., 1999.Original lithograph measuring 14 x 19-1/2 inches, printed in two colors. Drawn by the artist directly on stone in 1993 and intended to accompany a deluxe version of We Are All In The Dumps With Jack And Guy(New York: HarperCollins), this project was put aside and the fate of this image uncertain until publication was transferred to Battledore Ltd in 1999. With Mr. Sendak's permission, we arranged with Timothy P. Sheesley of Corridor Press to produce 200 copies of this limited edition print on Rives Arches paper, each authenticated with their chop mark stamped on the lower left margin; numbered and SIGNED by the artist (an additional 38 copies total were done as trial proofs, artist proofs, hors commerce, and bon à tirer). Accompanied by a printed certificate of tirage limitation. The actual stone is now at The Rosenbach Museum & Library (Philadelphia) where it will be available for educational purposes but never again… Read More

BILL CLINTON 1993 INAUGURAL PRINT signed by MAURICE SENDAK
SENDAK (Maurice): "HAPPY INAUGURATION ... A Jubilee Welcome for Our New President and His Family! From the Children of America, Maurice Sendak, and Harper Collins Publishers January 20, 1993". SIGNED.
Original art print on semi-stiff paper, the design by Maurice Sendak and commissioned by his publishers as an official greeting to welcome the Clinton era -- it was published in major newspapers all across the USA on the actual inauguration day, and may have been given to those invited to one of many inaugural parties: but exact limitation is unknown, except it is quite rare and unusual.
The actual image appears to be a duotone from graphite, with a red and blue single rule surround with caption below: overall measurement is 13-1/16 x 12-1/2 inches (33.2 x 31.8 cm). A small quantity was acquired directly from the artist, who then signed each one in ink. It is the only political image Sendak did in his entire oeuvre. Our copies are… Read More

MIILTON (John), KING (Jessie M), Illus.
Comus: A Masque
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1906.
First Edition, First Printing.
8vo., [2], 82 pp. + [2] illus. and colophon; publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration.
With 9 illustrations by Jessie King.