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CAROLINIANA
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48 Tasty Recipes made with Sunshine Pimientos
Ponoma Products Company
Stapled booklet measuring 6.5 x 4", with [16] pp of text. A collection of recipes making use of Georgia grown pimiento peppers. According to the introduction, these peppers would provide a "thrilling new taste experience", as scientific developments allowed a new breed of the peppers to be grown in Georgia; a blurb on the rear cover touts the nutritional value of pimiento peppers. In excellent condition with a bit of soiling to covers.
Offered by Caroliniana and found in "Cookery Catalog, August 2021."
JAMES CUMMINS BOOKSELLER
DEWOLFE & WOOD
LES ENLUMINURES
EVENING STAR BOOKS
GOLDEN LEGEND
JAMES GRAY BOOKSELLER
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
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A collection of approximately 1650 chopstick wrappers, all of Japanese origin, pasted in four 8vo and two large 8vo albums, various bindings
Japan: ca. 1920-30. $4500.00 A remarkable collection of more than 1600 Japanese chopstick wrappers, all carefully mounted in six albums. The wrappers vary from very plain to highly elaborate and offer a wide range of design and typography. Many have telephone numbers. The anonymous collector painstakingly (and lovingly) assembled this collection in the 1920s and 1930s; the wrappers advertise famous and forgotten restaurants, which served mostly Japanese but also Chinese and Western cuisines, from almost everywhere in Japan, ranging from Hokkaido in the north to Kyushu in the south, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, prominent hot spring resorts, and many famous sightseeing destinations. The restaurants served a wide range of cuisines including sushi, kaiseki, vegetarian foods in temples, health foods, various kinds of Western foods, etc. Most of the restaurants were located in major cities, but our indefatigable collector has gathered wrappers from restaurants in local train stations, country inns, bunraku and kabuki theaters, and hundreds of other food establishments, most of which no longer exist. The first four albums (230 x 155 mm.) are bound in the original wrappers, which have been decorated by the collector with drawings of entrances to restaurants. Each volume has a manuscript label pasted on the upper wrapper, reading Kuidoraku (Gourmandism). Additionally, each volume has on the first folded leaf a poem or story in manuscript about the pleasures of food. These are illustrated with four scenes of happy times at the Japanese table, including one depicting foreigners. The final two albums (305 x 210 mm. and 280 x 180 mm.) are bound in silk-covered boards and are accordion-style. The collector must have been a wealthy gourmet to have travelled so widely and eaten so well, and making these albums was a long-term commitment. In the early 20th century, there was a popular style of fiction in Japan, called the gastronomic novel, where food was the primary subject. This literary movement had wide ramifications in eating styles and tastes throughout Japan and introduced the consumption of meat and European cuisines. In fine condition.
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller and found in "Gourmet Japan."
JEFF HIRSCH BOOKS
HONEY & WAX BOOKSELLERS
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Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All.
Robert Indiana (artist); Gertrude Stein (libretto); Virgil Thomson (music); [Susan B. Anthony].
New York: New World Records, 1977. $300. Pop artist Robert Indiana’s vivid serigraph poster for the 1977 New World Records release of The Mother of Us All, Virgil Thomson’s 1947 opera about Susan B. Anthony, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein: “The right to sleep is given to no woman.” Indiana had long been an active admirer of The Mother of Us All, designing sets for several stage productions, including the Santa Fe Opera’s 1976 bicentennial production, whose recording is advertised here. The typography features Indiana’s signature tipped O in MOTHER, a design element that recalls his iconic LOVE sculpture and stamp. For more on Indiana and The Mother of Us All, see David Littlejohn, “Artists on the Opera Stage” in The Ultimate Art (1992). Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers and found in "August 2021: New Acquisitions."
THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD.
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
Save the date for the ABAA Virtual Book Fair: New York Edition!
The Book Fair That Never Sleeps!
This virtual book fair will take place September 9-12, in lieu of the in-person New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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Admission is free!
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Zane Grey. The Drift Fence
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y. Small 8vo. Light blue mesh cloth with dark blue lettering and rules, pictorial dust jacket. 314pp. Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear to otherwise-bright jacket.
Tight and bright reprint edition of this 1932 shoot-'em-up set in Arizona involving (to cite jacket flap) "Traft, powerful cattleman and owner of the Diamond...." This superbly fresh copy has a choice autograph twist: a fine heavy stock card signed and inscribed in blue fineline by Benny Baker. Baker (1907-94), who played Jim Traft in the 1936 film version of the novel, was a popular actor and comedian in more than fifty films of the 1930s and '40s. Unusual copy!
Offered by Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts and found in "E-list #33."
KENNETH MALLORY, BOOKSELLER
JEFFREY D. MANCEVICE, INC.
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LAW COURT SCENE / WATERCOLOR CIRCA 1600
Watercolor and painting on paper. Around 1600. 4" x 6"1/2 (10.5 x 16.5 cm). Tipped onto later dark blue thick card paper. Very short margins with some faint marginal soiling. Minor flaking. $975 Colorfully designed watercolor of a German law court scene with beautifully costumed figures of the period, monogrammed with "RKE" in the lower margin. A seated judge appears with a councilor on either side. On the left appear five well-dressed figures who could be the plaintiffs and prosecutor. On the right appears the person being prosecuted who stands barefoot dressed in ragged and torn clothing looking over his shoulder with a smirk. He appears restrained standing between the sheriff and his deputy. Probably from a German student's album amicorum. In the right margin of the sheet appears seventeen handwritten lines of text from 1 Corinthians 4.
Offered by Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.
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OAK KNOLL BOOKS
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BOOK-WORM (first two volumes) then THE BOOKWORM, A LITERARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY J. PH. BERJEAU (THE).
Ulrich & Kup p.17. Volumes two to five (of five total published). "A scholarly digest of bibliographical information. Significant notes on early printing and illustration." From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company. Rubbed along hinges.
Offered by Oak Knoll Books and found in "August 2021 Sale."
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WILLIAM REESE COMPANY
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STORMING FORT WAGNER
Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Color lithograph. Image size: 18 1/2 x 25 inches; sheet size: 22 x 28 1/4 inches. Matted to an overall size of 25 x 31 inches. Some moderate chipping and edge tears, not affecting image. Reinforced with older tape along top edge. Lightly toned, though colors are still strong and fresh. Good plus, with wide margins. Suitable for framing.
A dramatic rendering of the first major battle in the Civil War to involve African- American troops, the attempted storming of a Confederate fort near Charleston, South Carolina on July 18, 1863. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was killed along with fifteen other officers and nearly 300 of his men. The print shows the Union troops charging the ramparts of Fort Wagner, charging into the oncoming Confederate rifle and cannon fire. A Union officer, likely intended to be Shaw, stands atop the first rampart, sword held high, the flag waving boldly next to him. Union ships float off the coast in the background, shells bursting above them.
Shaw (1837-63) came from a wealthy Massachusetts family noted for upholding reform and abolitionist causes. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Shaw distinguished himself in combat, surviving the bloody battles of Antietam and Cedar Mountain. After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed in 1863, Massachusetts governor John Andrew organized the army's first black volunteer unit, the 54th Massachusetts. Despite his initial refusal, Shaw was ultimately persuaded by his family to accept the command. Sent to fight in the Union effort to seize the border islands of the Carolina coast in the late spring of 1863, the regiment proved its valor that summer by holding off Confederate troops at James Island, South Carolina. "Two days later [July 18, 1863], on Morris Island, Shaw proudly volunteered his regiment to lead the assault on the impregnable Fort Wagner, the first step in an offensive on the Confederate stronghold of Charleston, South Carolina. When the Fifty-fourth charged the fort, 272 were killed, wounded, or captured. One of those who fell was Shaw, leading his African- American troops in battle. Although the assault failed, the bravery of the Fifty- fourth proved the ability of black troops, and in death, the young Shaw was ennobled as a martyr to freedom and as a symbol of enlightened sacrifice" - ANB. The soldiers of the 54th impressed Shaw with their dedication and valor, which they demonstrated during the Fort Wagner assault. Shaw was buried with his troops by the Confederates in a mass grave on the site of the assault.
Shaw and his troops are the subject of one of the most celebrated works of public sculpture in the United States, Augustus St.- Gaudens' Shaw Memorial, on the corner of the Boston Common nearest the State House. Shaw's leadership of the regiment is best known to many people today through the film GLORY (1989), which culminates in the attack on Fort Wagner and Shaw's death. A dramatic portrayal of this important historical moment. BLOCKSON 111.
Offered by William Reese Company and found in "In the Summertime, Part 2."
ROYAL BOOKS
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Because the Night
by James Ellroy
Original handwritten manuscript draft for the 1984 novel. With Ellroy’s profuse and expectedly surgical corrections to his own text throughout, and with substantial content that did not make the published edition. With a letter of provenance from Ellroy’s then-editor and publisher Otto Penzler, tying the manuscript directly to its source. According to Penzler, Ellroy’s manuscripts would always begin as completely handwritten documents, before being typed, edited by both Penzler and Ellroy, and then generally retyped and re-edited once more. In addition to early unpublished content, the manuscript reveals the extremely fastidious nature of Ellroy’s process, as well as his preference for writing out and editing his research, outlines, and finished novels by hand. As an object, the manuscript is an almost overwhelming testament to the process that results in what has been accurately described as the author’s “dense, baroque style,” or what Scott Timberg of the Los Angeles Times in 2006 famously called “a heightened pastiche of jazz slang, cop patois, creative profanity, and drug vernacular.”
Ellroy’s fifth novel, and the second in his L.A.Noir trilogy that featured LAPD robbery-homicide detective Lloyd Hopkins. Because the Night centers on the investigation of a triple murder at a liquor store that strangely involves no theft, leading Hopkins to believe that the crime was a “thrill kill.” Black, blue, and red ink manuscript. 461 leaves, each numbered at the top left, standard notebook paper stock, rectos only. Housed in a large black post-style clasp binder.
Offered by Royal Books and found in "Catalog Seventy-Two."
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E.K. SCHREIBER
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TAVISTOCK BOOKS
TEN POUND ISLAND BOOK COMPANY
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THE VEATCHS ARTS OF THE BOOK
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Berté Water Colour Printing. Vivicolor Inserts (cover title)
Buffalo: Vivicolor Company, (1930). 8 × 10½. 87 leaves printed rectos only. Of these, 69 are printed by the Jean Berté process. The “Inserts” are ready-made sectional title pages for college yearbooks. They are one-word titles: Activities; Administration; Advertising; Athletics; Classes; Clubs; College; Features; Fraternities; Social; Sororities. These title page inserts were designed by various artists, in 13 different series ranging from Colonial American and Indian to Modernistic and Ultra-Modern. There’s Moorish, Grecian, Alma Mater, Medieval, and Louis XIV. There’s a humorous series by John Held, Jr. Most are Art Deco. Bound in black leatherette with an Art Deco design in yellow & green. Piece missing from corner of front cover; some wear & creasing. Good copy of a rare trade catalogue.
The ready-made inserts are intended to “satisfy the demand for the unusual in yearbooks” while alleviating “the prohibitive cost of good professional art, color engraving, and color printing.” Vivicolor hired eminent western NY artists: Bertram Glover, Ellsworth Jaeger, John Held, Norman Kent (woodcuts). A few less expensive inserts are included (mostly for comparison) such as two-color half tones and etching. Vivicolor guaranteed that no two schools within 25 miles of each other would have the same inserts.
The Berté printing process replicated the pochoir stencil process of hand coloring. A series of rubber mats over-printed water color inks in a specific order. Expensive & laborious, the process was licensed and the equipment sold to individual printing companies. The Vivicolor Company was a licensee. This full-scale catalogue and the promotional piece below are the only copies located. Nothing else is known of the company.
Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book and found in "Catalog 97."
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