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London: Macmillan Company, 1925. First edition. Publisher's black buckram with gilt illustration and title, beveled edges. Top edge gilt. A very good copy, small Japanese bookseller's label and date on front pastedown, plates sharp.. xvi, 385 pp. Illus. 1 color and 50 b/w plates plus in-text drawings. Sm. 4to. A detailed and thorough early study of the Kabuki covering: audiences, conventions, craftsmanship, school of acting, ceremonials, origins of Kabuki, Yakusha, Shibai,, Sakusha, Meiji Kabuki, and current Kabuki.

New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1956. First edition. Cloth. Spine roll else very good in a good price-clipped, chipped, and repaired dust jacket.. xxiii, 296 pp. Illus. with 58 b/w photos and 3 diagrams. 8vo.

Tel-Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1980. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w photos. Sq. 8vo. English translation: Rela Mazali. In Hebrew and English. Quite evocative.

Tel-Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1980. First edition. Stiff paper wrappers. A fine copy.. [Unpaged]. Illus. with b/w photos. Sq. 8vo. In English and Hebrew. Exhibition prepared and compiled by Jan Parik ; David Shaham, catalogue editor ; English translation by Rela Mazali.

Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 1981. First edition. Linen stamped in gilt. A fine copy. As new. In slipcase with a few creases.. 395, [54] p. 1204 illus. with 258 in color. 4to. Catalog of the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts including Japanese Calligraphic works and painting, Japanese Ceramics and Crafts, and Chinese Ceramics and Crafts. Introduction and list of plates in English and Japanese. Main text in Japanese.

Geneva: Nagel Publishers, 1962. Later printing. Cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a lightly rubbed else fine slipcase.. 45 pp. + 58 pp. Illus. with 85 color & b/w plates (16 tipped-in). Folio. Mulk Raj Anand (1905 - 2004), Indian novelist and art critic, is considered a founder of the English-language Indian novel.

New Delhi: R&K Publshing, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy in a very good soiled dust jacket (with a 2nd and different jacket).. 69 pp. + plates. Illus. with 67 b/w plates with tissue guards. Sm. 4to. An examination of the iconography of feminine beauty in India.

Beijing: Ke Xue Chu Ban She, 1976. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. Illus. with b/w plates and figures. 4to. Archaeology (Magazine). In Chinese. Table of contents in English.

Beijing: Ke Xue Chu Ban She, 1975. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. Illus. with b/w plates and figures. 4to. Archaeology (Magazine). Two issues. In Chinese. Table of contents in English.

Beijing: Ke Xue Chu Ban She, 1972. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. Illus. with b/w & color plates and figures. 4to. Archaeology (Magazine).

Ashkhabad: [Ylym], 1977. First edition. Paper wrappers. Spine and front wrapper sunned else very good.. 174 pp. Illus. with 62 b/w photos, drawings, and charts. 8vo. Issued by Akademiia nauk Turkmenskoi SSR, Institut istorii im. Sh. Batyrova and Akademiia nauk SSSR, Leningradskoe otdelenie Instituta arkheologii. Karakum Antiquities. Includes: Primeval monuments Near the Caspean region; Excavations of the early-metal age, Yassy-depe in the Kaakhkinski region; Monuments of the early-metal age in Northern Turkmenia; Stratigraphy of the hill #7 on the homestead Garry-Kyariz; Excavations in 1971 on Ak-depe; Archeological research of the Takhta-Bazar region; a Collection of bronze subjects XI-XIII cent. from Takhta-Bazar; Actions at the Meshkhed-Misransk plane in 1971; Archeological research in Northern -Western Turkmenia during the spring of 1971; Archeological research on the territory of the Tashauz region in 1970-1972; Medieval architectural ornaments and their ethnographical parallels; Archeology and… Read More

Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1952. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. 138 pp. Illus. with 3 plates. 8vo. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur [Mainz] Schriftenreihe der Klasse der Literatur. Verschollene und Vergessene. In German

Basel: Rudolf Geering, 1925. First edition. Paper wrappers. Good only, chipped at heel of spine, rear wrapper, and several leaves chipped at corner, scattered soiling on wrapper and leaves, some creasing.. 104 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 8vo. 1790 items.

Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1835. First American edition. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Boards and spine worn, paper labels chipped,with one mounted upside down, one joint torn but firm, last leaf of Vol. I torn, lacking about six lines of text in the center, scattered foxing mostly to Vol. II. Good.. 208 pp.; 189 pp. 8vo. Published earlier in England as "The Coquette: and other tales and sketches in prose and verse." Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808-1877) was an early English feminist, social reformer, and author of fiction, poetry, and political pamphlets, whose activities after her separation from her husband led to the passage of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and the Married Women's Property Act 1870. Quite scarce. OCLC shows only five locations: UCLA, Lib. Congress, Mich. State, Harvard (imperfect), BN France. Provenance: C. W. Van Rensselaer (signature).

New York: David H. Gildersleeve, Printer, 1880. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good copy, faint fold.. 4 pp. 16mo. Scarce Garfield campaign piece for the 1880 election. Also issued as "Why young men should vote for Gen. James A. Garfield." Argues that the Republicans have brought prosperity by limiting free trade and by returning the county to the gold standard; by 1880 the nation's money was backed by gold alone, though the issue would continue to be hotly debated for years. OCLC shows three locations: Hagley, Western Reserve, and Rutherford Hayes Pres. Ctr.; the variant title is held at the first two locations.

London: Denis Archer, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy in a worn dust jacket.. 384 pp. 8vo.

Philadelphia: King & Baird, prg. Sansom St. Philada., 1852. First edition. Self wrappers, printed on light green paper. About very good, a few stab holes in margin, fore edge slightly rough, worming at inner margin, mainly on the rear and not affecting text, faint creasing.. [4 pp]. Illus. with b/w drawings. 4to. Page 1: Key to the figures depicted; p.2: Description of the painting; p.3: Object and Plan of the Institution. Art Union of Philadelphia; p.4: List of Officers; subscribers will receive the engraving. "In the early months of 1851, the managers of the Philadelphia Art Union decided to add a new feature to their plan: to commission annually an original painting from a prominent artist, have it engraved for subscribers, and award it as a prize. The managers of the art union undertook this project because they were, in the words of their resolution, 'deeply impressed with the utility, necessity, wisdom and moral influence of cherishing a national spirit, in the patronage of the Arts of… Read More

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with small stains on the front wrapper, rare marginalia, and several unopened leaves.. 159 pp. Sm. 4to. Collection UNESCO, D'Oeuvres Representatives, Serie Thailandaise. Annales du Musee Guimet.; Biblioteque d'etudes t. 65. Translated from the Thai into French.

Kent: Ferry Publications, 1992. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. As new.. 48 pp. Illus. with b/w & color photos, drawings, and maps. Obl. 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. 318 pp. 8vo. From the Jacket: "At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different: not sex, drugs, God, or even self, but birds. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. When he was broke he would pick fruit or do odd jobs to earn the fifty dollars or so that would last him for weeks. His goal was to set a record - most North American species seen in a year - but along the way he began to realize that at this breakneck pace he was only looking, not seeing. What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world. Kingbird Highway is a unique coming-of-age story, combining a… Read More