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(CHINA)PANORAMA OF PEKING during the Celebrations of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Emperor Kang-He's birthday.Shanghai: Tien-Shin-Chai, 1879.Profusely illustrated throughout with 292 pages lithographed with images, mostly captioned below in English script and on the sideSmall 8vo, measures: 6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches (155 x 96 mm), original gilt pictorial purple silk wrappers (front cover dulled).First edition thus.With 6 page Introduction in English, explaining that the festivities being described date back to the western calendar year 1721. Six pages of text as introduction, in English at the front and in Chinese at the back.

621 issues
Beijing Review (Chinese: 北京周報; pinyin: Běijīng Zhōubào; Wade–Giles: Pei-ching Yu-pao), previously Peking Review, is China's only national news magazine in English, published by the Chinese Communist Party-owned China International Publishing Group. In 2006 it claimed a per-issue circulation of 70,000 and distribution "throughout China and 150 countries and regions worldwide." Founded in March 1958 as the weekly Peking Review, it was an important tool for the Chinese government to communicate to the rest of world. The first issue included an editor's note explaining that the magazine was meant to "provide timely, accurate, first-hand information on economic, political and cultural developments in China, and her relations with the rest of the world." The U.S. Postal Service initially restricted distribution of the magazine but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned this policy in Lamont v. Postmaster General. In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated… Read More

[COLERIDGE, Sara]. PHANTASMION. London: William Pickering, 1837. 8vo, [iv], 387pp; publisher's green cloth with original printed paper label on upper spine (soiled, edges scuffed), small section cut out at top of half-title to excise name of previous owner. It is especially rare to still be in its publisher's binding and with its printed paper label.
First edition. Limited to 250 copies. This is the major contribution by Samuel Coleridge's daughter and is a rare precursor of the journey-to-faeryland that characterized the structure and content of the quest motif in nineteenth and twentieth century fantastic literature. Besides the intricacies of plot, character, and genealogy, PHANTASMION has a theme in common with Tolkien's works: the virtues of pastoralism and the disruptive force of industrialism." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1238-40. It appears to be modeled on Edmund Spenser's THE FAERIE QUEEN (1590; 1596), the "first fairy tale novel written in English." - Clute and… Read More

THE PICTORIAL OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S PATRIOTIC SELF-DEFENSE WAR IN EASTERN CHINA BATTLEFIELD DURING THE FIRST YEAR 中国人民爱国自卫战争华东战场第一年画刊
Eastern China: Published by Dazhong Daily & Eastern China Xinhua News Agency, October 1947, illustrating the War of Liberation with photos and texts, large 8vo, 96pp., printed pictorial wrappers, fine condition.
$3,000
本画刊于1947年11月大众日报社和华东新华社出版，用照片和文字描述了解放战争时期的历史阶段，是非常珍贵的历史资料。尺寸19×27cm，共96页，品相非常好。

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。

A POCKET GUIDE TO CHINA 中国指南手册
Prepared by Special Service Division, Services of Supply, United States Army. "For use of Military Personnel only." Washington DC: War and Navy Departments, [1942].
12mo, 75pp.; coloured pictorial wrappers (minor edge wear). Illustrated, including a cartoon strip in the back: "How to Spot a Jap" by Milton Caniff (American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic series).
America comes to the aid of China to fight a common enemy during World War II. The cover has the emblem of the Kuomintang/Nationalists under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
华盛顿战争与海军部门：由美国军队特殊服务部门准备，专为军人个人使用，1942年。11×13.5cm，75页，彩色封皮，书末尾11页图文展示如何分辨出中国人和日本人。美国在二战期间到中国支援抗日战争。

THE POLICY OF ANTI-JAPAN AND SAVE THE NATION-by Chen Shaoyu (Wang Ming) (抗日救国政策)
Soviet Union: Printed in Soviet Union 1936, FIRST EDITION. this book was originally from two essays about the new policy of the Chinese Communist Party for the Soviet Union Communist Central Magazine in Bolshevik, and Communist International Executive Committee Magazine, the author demonstrated the new policy of united front in his essay. 16mo, 109 pp., printed title wrappers, slight crease to the cover, slight tears to the spine, near fine condition.
1936年在苏联印刷，第一版，本书是作者向布尔塞维克苏联共产中央杂志和共产国际执行委员会杂志发表的两篇关于统一战线的论文。封皮稍微折痕和破损，其他品相非常好。

(TELEPHONE DIRECTORY) Palestine Telephone Directory: HAIFA and Northern Palestine * JAFFA - TEL AVIV and Western Palestine * JERUSALEM and Southern Palestine. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Press for the Palestine Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones, January 1946. Three volumes, Square Small folio, 76-50-47pp entirely printed in the English language; brown cartridge wrappers with each inside front cover containing dialing instructions for automatic exchanges and the appropriate department to contact for all telephone services, the second volume with four small punch-holes just right of the spine to allow the directory to hang for cummunal reference.
Issued just two years before the establishment of Israel as its own country, and twenty years after the first all-Hebrew telephone directory was printed in Jerusalem, this remarkable survivor remains in very good condition with hundreds of telephone numbers of government ministries and organizations, banks, businesses and private individuals, in various cities… Read More

BINDING: Gutta-Percha
Parables of Our Lord [edited by Henry Noel Humphreys]. London: Longmans, 1847. Chromolithographed title page and 31 chromolithographed pages, with text, symbolic borders, miniatures and initials printed in gold, black, and colors, also 2pp letterpress (spotted) identifying the various parables: The Prodigal Son, The Sower, The Tares, Two Debtors, Good Samaritan, Rich Fool, Barren Fig Tree, Rich Man and Lazarus, Pharisee and the Publican, the Vineyard, the Marriage Feast, and the Ten Virgins. 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches, papier-maché boards, covered with black plaster, molded to appear like a Gothic carved wood binding, with black leather backed spine. Among the earliest examples to reproduce antiquarian handmade work which met with considerable commercial success. Except for the slightest chip at top rear cover frame, this fragile binding is in remarkable preservation, possibly re-cased using vintage swirling endpapers. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 231; Abbey, Life, 222. Read More

BLAKE (William)
The Pastorals of Virgil, With a course of English Reading, adapted for Schools ... enabling youth to acquire the Latin Language in the shortest period of time. [Edited] by Robert John Thornton.
London: F C & J Rivington, 1821.
Two volumes, illustrated with engraved frontispieces + 230 illustrations: of which William Blake has contributed 17 original woodblock designs for the First Eclogue + six copperplates of Classical poets and philosophers, all of which he also engraved, and with four additional Blake designs engraved by other hands. These are WILLIAM BLAKE's only woodcut designs and have remained amongst the most influential woodcuts in the historical development of British art. Their influence can be seen in the prints of Edward Calvert and Samuel Palmer. The original blocks survive and are preserved in the British Library (London), last restruck in 1977 by Iain Bain.
8vo., xii (-vii/viii), 12, xxiv (-i/iv) 214 pp., [i] (215-)592 pp. + plates, erratic preliminaries… Read More

(Counter-Culture)People's Yellow Pages.Cambridge, MA: Vocations for Social Change, November 1971.Sparsely but appropriately illustrated throughout.Large 4to., [ii]125 pp.; self-wrappers, overall light staining but complete. Ink annotation in outer margin of front cover.Second edition (revised, updated)Apparently the FIRST putting together of a "People's Yellow Pages" by a group that describes itself as "anti-profit": an alphabetical inventory detailing many groups, legal services, support organizations, and everything else one would be needing to know about coming out of the various movements from the late 1960s. Topics include abortion, assassination, bio-rhythm, coffee houses, communes, draft counseling, drugs, ecology, food cooperatives, group therapy and child care, help crisis, liberation struggles, mental health, nonviolence, political science, prisons, radicals, resistance, sensitivity training, spirituality, tenant's rights, war crimes, welfare, &c. OCLC locates one copy only (Emory Univ)… Read More

AG-10001
People's Liberation Army Heroic Struggles Cartoon Albums: Struggle for Ten Years (1926-1936, artist: Fan Zihou) & The War of Resistance for Eight Years (1937-1945, artist：Li Nu)
Published by Shandong Xinhua Book Store Jiaodong Branch, 1949. 20,000 copies were published. Oblong 12 mo., (13 × 18.5 cm), two volumes, the first volume with portrait of Chairman Mao and Zhu De on the front page. Illustrated with 12 full-page color cartoons and text: Nanchang Uprising, On Jinggangshan Mountain, Broke Crackdown for 5 times, Climbed the Snow Mountain, Across the Grass, Shanbei Reunited, 25,000 Li (1 Li = 500 meters) Long March, The Hundred Regiments Offensive, Dashed Through the Luding Bridge etc. Fine condition.
中国人民解放军英勇奋战画册一组2册：苦斗十年（范子厚），抗战八年（李怒）… Read More

(LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809–1865)
PHOTO BADGE in copper frame with silk Campaign Ribbon, circa 1864
Framed Albumen Portrait, measures 1 x ¾ inches; Ribbon imprinted Chicago: North Western Flag & Banner Co., L. 4 inches.
The portrait by Anthony BERGER of Matthew Brady's Gallery (the image taken in Washington DC, 9 February 1864)
Reference: C Hamilton and L Ostendorf: Lincoln in Photographs, 109

SZPILMAN (Wladyslaw):
[The Pianist] Śmierć miasta ("Death of a City").
Warsaw, 1946.
8vo, pictorial paper wrappers.

The memoir written by the Polish musician of Jewish origin who survived the German deportations of Jews to extermination camps, the 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II.
Szpilman wrote his memoir in 1945, shortly after the war's end which was suppressed by Poland's communist authorities. Not many copies of the book were printed, and it was ignored for more than 50 years.
In 1998, Szpilman's son Andrzej Szpilman republished his father's work, first in German as Das wunderbare Überleben ("The Miraculous Survival") and then in English as "The Pianist". It was later published in more than 30 languages. In 2002, Roman Polanski directed a screen version, also called The Pianist, but Szpilman passed away before the film was completed. The movie won three Academy Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Film Award, and… Read More

RACKHAM (Arthur) [1867–1939]
"The wonderful music with shouting and laughter", 1934
Original ink and watercolor on paper mounted on board
Frontispiece for Robert Browning: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
(London: George G Harrap, 1934)
Measures 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches
Signed in full at bottom left

(SENDAK, Maurice):
Poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence.
London: [The Stellar Press for] The Bodley Head, [1967]. Eight illustrations by Maurice Sendak (including one repeat: title/p.11), each printed in sanguine. 12mo.,19 pp. + [1] colophon; semi-stiff covers with wrap-around pictorial paper dust-jacket, spine stitched as issued (spine ends lightly rubbed).
PRESENTATION COPY Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper: "Dear Sylvia – Mit Liebe! Maurice & Gene". The recipient, Sylvia Milgram, was Teacher-Coordinator for the Bureau of Art, New York City Board of Education and a Lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York [d. 2000]. Gene is Eugene Glynn (1926-2007), psychoanalyst and Maurice Sendak's partner for more than fifty years.
First and only printing, limited to 275 copies issued as a Christmas keepsake for presentation to friends of the publisher and of the artist. No copies were ever offered for sale at the time of publication. While on a promotional tour for the British… Read More

(Game of the Goose)Poesies sur la Constitution Unigenitus. Recueillies par le Chevalier de G..., Officier de Regiment de Champagne. Villefranche [i.e. Amsterdam]: Chez Philalete Belhumeur, 1724. Two volumes. Illustrated with duplicate frontispieces, title-vignettes and many decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. 8vo., i, i, xxiv 317 pp. – i, i, 389 pp.; uniform polished tree-calf, extra-gilt, all edges gilt, covers with armorial gilt stamp.First edition thus, greatly revised and expanded from an earlier version with essays, letters, poems, reviews and songs with political (Constitution), religious (Pope Clement XI) and literary interest. Most important, this work includes an essay titled "Essai du Nouveau Conte de Ma Mere L'Oye" [NewTales of Mother Goose] showing the influence of Perrault's tales barely twenty years after his death AND a handsome folding-out engraved board game titled "Le Jeu de la Constitution" designed in a race-game format.As a notable compilation of pro-Jansenist… Read More

The Policy of Anti-Japan and Save the Nation by Chen Shaoyu (Wang Ming) (抗日救国政策)
Printed in Soviet Union, 1936. FIRST EDITION. this text was originally from two essays about the new policy of China Communist Party for the Soviet Union Communist Central Magazine in Bolshevik, and Communist International Executive Committee Magazine, the author demonstrated the new policy of united front in his essay. 16mo, 109 pp., printed title wrappers, slight crease to the cover, slight chips to the spine, near fine condition.
抗日救国政策
1936年在苏联印刷，第一版，本书是作者向布尔塞维克苏联共产中央杂志和共产国际执行委员会杂志发表的两篇关于统一战线的论文。封皮稍微折痕和破损，其他品相非常好。

GILL (ERIC), 1882–1940, illus.
ASHFORD (Faith)
POOR MAN'S PENCE
[Saint Dominic's Press, Douglas Pepler at Ditchling, Sussex, A D 1917]
12mo., [v] 84pp. + colophon; special linen cloth-backed grey boards (regular copies bound in brown wrappers).
Title engraving by John Beedham and 4 text wood engravings of which 2 are designed by Eric Gill.
Four-line inscription: "The feast of S. Elizabeth of Hungary AD 1922 | To another Eliza from the Printer, HDCP"
Harry Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951) was an English printer, writer and poet. [see Wikipedia]
Gill 362.
ERIC GILL'S Copy with his bookplate

[GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985).]
Portrait Photograph of Robert Graves
[Photographed circa 1916, printed 1930]
Depicting Robert Graves in profile wearing the uniform of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Silver Print photograph, 7-5/8 x 5-1/2 inches (19.5 x 14.0 cm), press caption and illegible copyright stamp, stamp dated Mar 26, 1930. Matted (10-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches).

Handsome portrait of Robert Graves, taken circa 1916. "It was probably taken some time before he was wounded in the Battle of the Somme in July, 1916" (Reese). This print appears to relate to American publicity for Goodbye to All That, first published in London in 1929.
The press caption affixed to the verso reads, "Poet Author of Sensational War Book / Mr. Robert Graves / whose remarkable book on the war, "GOODBYE TO ALL THAT", has created a sensation. / It is said to be the first book in which the war has been written about with frankness from the English point of view."
Reference: Reese Graves 1.
Exhibited: "Robert Graves: A Centennial… Read More