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Imprint: 1934 [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 13, #11. Tokyo, October, 1934. With contributions by such artists as Takei Takeo and writers as Ogawa Mimei. Some edgewear and soiling else very good., Very Good Stock number: 85875.
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[CHILDREN'S - PICTURE BOOKS]. LITTLE FOLKS' ZOO. New York: The Pictorial Color Book Company, Inc. [n.d. ca. late 19th century] unpag. 4to., red paper covered spine over color pictorial paper covered boards. "Printed in Bavaria" on rear cover. Duotone endpapers. Heavy paper covered board pages, 6 pages. Birds, animals, wild and domestic. Color bright, moderate shelfwear, interior clean. Stock number: 82440.
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Imprint: 1931 [CHILDREN'S] MY NEW BOOKSHELF: BABY CHICKIES, BUNNY BABIES, MY PUPPY PLAYMATES, MY PERT PUSSIES, PIGGY WIGGY, DUCKY DOODLE, PUPS AND PUSSIES. New York: Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company [1931 on box]. Near fine, occasional very light soil to color pictorial wrappers, interiors same. Numbers 438-445, lacking 444. "Printed in U.S.A." on rear covers. Original color cover paper-covered cardboard box, with a few tears and chips to sides, cover bright and complete with light rubbing. "No. 2001" on front of box. Excellent condition for tot's books., Fine Stock number: 80548.
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Imprint: 1903 (CHILDREN'S COLOURING BOOK). PAINTING PLAYS FOR RAINY DAYS AND EASY LESSONS IN DRAWING. Chicago: Thompson and Thomas, 1903. A children's colour and drawing book with one third of the lessons completed inside the book. Narrow 4to., grey paper boards, backed in blue cloth with upper board illustrated in colour. Boards slightly bumped with dampstain to one cornor of lower board. Two little trolls have been added to the front free endpaper. A very good copy., Very Good Stock number: 51720.
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Imprint: 1941 [CHILDREN'S ART, JAPANESE]. PEINTURES DES ECOLIERS JAPONAIS. Vingt-deux Reproductions en Couleur. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1941. First edition. Portfolio of 22 reproductions of children's art in color. 4to., in a blue chemise, the backstrip reinforced with tape. Title page faded, and the prints just slightly so at extremes. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 29347.
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Imprint: 1919 [BANNERMAN, Helen] CHILDREN'S. THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company (1919). Unpaginated. Square 12mo., red cloth with color illustrated front pastedown, matching dust jacket. 24 full-page color illustrations. Peter Rabbit Series. Near fine (light finger soil to a few pages) with small loss to top of spine, in a good dust jacket with small chips and tears to edges, light soil. Slight mustiness. Bannerman does not appear as the author of this work., Good Stock number: 84599.
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Imprint: 1932 [CHILDREN'S BOOK] KINDAABUKKU TSUBAMENOOUCHI Dai Yon-kan Dai Kyu^-go. To^kyo^, Sho^wa 7 [1932] Color-printed stapled wrappers, 22.2 x 15.1 cm. Illustrated throughout with wonderful drawings, some in color. Insects and children and dance instruction - the cover is by the inimitably charming Takei Takeo. There are stories and songs - a great little periodical. Very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 88714.
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Imprint: 1940 [CHILDREN'S - JAPAN] TAKEI Takeo, editor. Yoji Hyojun Ehon OHISAMA TO OTSUKISAMA. Tokyo, Showa 15 [1940]. Stiff wrappers, about 10" x 7", illustrated in color throughout. The covers and the twelve double-page spreads within are printed after work by several important artists and illustrators including Takei, himself. This is volume 7 of the "Standard Picture Books for Children" series, its title could be translated as MADAM SUN AND MISTRESS MOON. It has a series of fifteen charming depictions of the influence and necessity of the sun and moon on our daily lives. No sign of the Imperial sun worship of the time save an explicit pictorial juxtaposition of the ancient Egyptians and modern Japanese worshipping the sun. The moon comes in to the picture at the very end, as a guide for children on dark streets at night. The text is by Takei. The covers are a bit rubbed and slightly stained and soiled, but overall a good copy of this extremely ephemeral publication., Good Stock number: 86207.
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Imprint: 1941 [CHILDREN'S - JAPAN]. Yonen Kagaku Ehon DOBUTSU NO UCHI. Tokyo, Seibundo Seikosha, Showa 16 [1941]. This book, entitled "Among the Animals" in translation, is from the "Childern's Picture Books for Science" series. Forty-two pages of color pictures and stories written using the simplified katakana syllabary. 25.2 x 26 cm. Bound western-style, side-stapled in paper wrappers - though only the top wrap is now present. A very unusual and very ephemeral production done a few months before Pearl Harbor, it is quite charming. Offered as is because of the missing back wrapper, but otherwise in good condition on browning paper with a mild crease in the front cover., Good Stock number: 86248.
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Imprint: 1940 [CHILDREN'S ART] ZEICHNUNGEN DRE JAPANISCHEN SCHULKINDER. Zweiundzwanzig gefarbte Reproduktionen. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1940. First edition. 4to., red cloth-backed, red paper-covered portfolio, stamped in gilt; forward + 22 tipped-in color plates. Some of the corners and edges are bumped, else very good, in a much-worn portfolio., Very Good Stock number: 30085.
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Imprint: 1948 CHILDS, Ebenezer Larkin. LETTER OF EBENEZER LARKIN CHILDS, FROM WASHINGTON, D.C., TO THOMAS O. LARKIN, MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA. Introductory notes by Robert J. Parker. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1948. Number 9 of the Letters of the Gold Discovery; limited to 750 copies. A quarto folder produced at the Quercus Press, with a facsimile of the letter (reproduced by the Stanford University Press) laid-in. Very fine., Fine Stock number: 69847.
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Imprint: 1965 (CHINA). CHINESE JOURNEY. Photographs by Gun Kessle. Text by Jan Myrdal. New York: Pantheon Books, (1965). First edition. Small 4to., red and black cloth stamped in gilt, spine in gilt. 160 pp. Illustrated with photographs throughout. A very good copy; clean and bright, in an edgeworn dust jacket., Very Good Stock number: 50552.
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Imprint: 1945 (CHINATOWN). CHINATOWN U.S.A. Text and Photographs by Elizabeth Colman. New York: John Day, [c. 1945]. Small 4to, 32 pp. + 88 pp. photographic section; red cloth. A near fine copy in moderately worn dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 36402.
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Imprint: 1945 (CHINATOWN). CHINATOWN U.S.A. Text and Photographs by Elizabeth Colman. New York: John Day, [c. 1945]. Small 4to, 32 pp. + 88 pp. photographic section; red cloth. A very good copy., Very Good Stock number: 53485.
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[CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS]. ALBUM OF 30 FISH ON 12 SHEETS. Album of 12 sheets of pith, approximately 19 x 26 cm each, mounted onto pages within covers approx. 24.7 x 34.3 cm, covered in brocade with ties. A wonderful mid-19th century example of this realistic genre, which uses the three dimensionality afforded by the surface of the inner plant pith of the Tetrapanax papyriferum, a ginseng relative that grow to the size of a small tree, shaved as here into thin sheets and painted with opaque colors. The fish sparkle and the colors glow, the fish accuraely depicted in form and color. Pith by its very nature is extremely fragile and larger sheets such as those employed here even more than usually frangible. Thus the completeness of the sheets with almost no lost pigmeted sections is most unusual. The covers are a bit worn though, as usual, the paintings show occasional cracking and repair, but a worthy example of its kind. Stock number: 86532.
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Imprint: 1960 (Chinese Crafts). CHINESE PAPER CUT-OUTS. Photographs by W. and B. Forman. Text by J. Hejzlar. Translated by I. Havlu. London: Spring Books, (1960). Large square 8vo., decorated paper-covered boards, with a window; 32pp. + 64pp. color plates. Near fine, in a glassine jacket., Fine Stock number: 30889.
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Imprint: 1975 (CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY). THE CHINESE EXHIBITION. A pictorial record of the Exhibition of Archaeological Finmds of The People's Republic of China. (San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 1975). 4to., pictorial wrappers; xvi + 385 items illustrated. Near fine., Fine Stock number: 38307.
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Imprint: 1877 [CHINESE LANGUAGE -- Cantonese Dialect]. BRUCE, Donald. EASY PHRASES IN THE CANTON DIALECT OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE. San Francisco: Bruce's Publishing House, 1877. Second edition. [152] unnumbered pages. Small folio, 24.5 x 16.9 cm., publisher's printed paper boards with later (but old) brown cloth tape on spine. Boards are dust soiled and edgeworn. The first few folios are loose, with one sprung. Lacks frontispiece, but a facsimile is laid in. The book is comprised of 72 one-page lessons, each is a list of 22 practical and/or common phrases in Chinese and English (questions with possible answers and related ideas) that are loosely grouped thematically (introductions, weights and measures, buying and selling, health, etc., etc.), with a blank page opposite each lesson for the pupil "to make a record of the sounds as pronounced by his teacher," as is explained in the Preface. (This feature, a rather ingenious technique, also allows Chinese speakers to use this book to record their English teacher's pronunciation, making it a Chinese/English or English/Chinese book depending upon the student and the teacher.) A few pencil notes have been made opposite the first two lessons; otherwise the text is clean. Condition is only about good, yet it is a scarce title: OCLC lists only eight holdings for this edition, and none for the first edition., Good Stock number: 89045.
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Imprint: 1983 (CHINESE ART). GREAT NATIONAL TREASURES OF CHINA. Masterworks in the National Palace Museum. (Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1983). 4to., brown cloth, color illustrations; 328 pp. Slight sun to board, else fine, in a sunned and slightly edge-torn dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 66313.
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Imprint: 1972 (CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY). HISTORICAL RELICS UNEARTHED IN NEW CHINA. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Square 4to., white cloth; color and black & white illustrations. Some spotting to cloth. In Chinese, with English text pamphlet laid in. Very good, in a glassine dust wrapper and lightly worn cardboard slipcase., Very Good Stock number: 66701.
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Imprint: 1948 [CHINESE LANGUAGE] CREEL, Herrlee Glessner, ed., Chang Tsung-Chi'en, and Richard C. Rudolph. LITERARY CHINESE BY THE INDUCTIVE METHOD. Volume I. THE HSIAO CHING. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, (1948). Second edition, revised and enlarged. Volume 1 only. Slim octavo, xv,213 pp., bound in publisher's green cloth, with title printed in black on spine and upper board. Binding shows a touch of spotting on lower board and occasional light wear. Pencil ownership on ffep., and a few pencil notes throughout text, else clean. Very good plus., Very Good Stock number: 85388.
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Imprint: 1962 [CHINESE BIBLIOGRAPHY] YAMAMOTO SHOTEN, publisher. MINDAI SASHIZUHON ZUROKU Naikaku Bunko Shozo^ Tanpen Shosetsu no Bu. Tokyo, Sho^wa 37 [1962]. 26.5 x 19.3 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji, printed paper title label. A useful guide, using facsimile reproductions of pages from Ming Dynasty illustrated short story collections in the Japanese government collections. In very fine condition in the original clasped chitsu case., Fine Stock number: 88741.
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Imprint: 1974 (CHINESE ART). MURALS FROM THE HAN TO THE TANG DYNASTY. 4to., beige cloth; black & white and color illustrations; 100 pp. In Chinese, with the English language text inserted in a stapled 4to pamphlet (Publishing information for pamphlet: Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1974). A few pencil notations, else fine, in lightly sunned and edgeworn dust jacket, tape-reinforced at verso, with a cardboard slipcase., Fine Stock number: 66292.
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Imprint: 1932 [CHINESE LANGUAGE] MULLIE, Jos. THE STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE, an Introduction to the Spoken Language (Northern Pekingese Dialect). Translated from the Flemish by A. Omer Versichel. Volume 1[- III]. Peiping, China: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1932[-1937]. Volumes 5 and 6 of "Anthropos linguistische bibliothek" series, edited by W. Schmidt & Georg Holtker. First English language edition of HET CHINEESCH TAALEIGEN (published 1930-33). Three quarto volumes bound in two: [4],XXXIII,566; [2],693-696,[2],652,[2],653-692 pp. The imprint in Volume 2-3, Pei-p'ing: Pei-t'ing Lazarist Press, 1937, is different than that in Volume 1. The pagination in Volumes 2 & 3 is continuous. The start of Volume 3, an index rerum, is indicated by an (unnumbered) half- title page inserted after p. 652. The errata lists for Volumes 1 & 2 are printed on pages 693-696; they are bound out-of-sequence at the start of Volume 2, immediately following the title-page. Publisher's red cloth bindings with gold-printed title on spine. The cloth at the heel and crown of Volume 2-3 is crimped and the joints are just starting, but the volume is sound. Some pencil notes in text, mostly at the beginning of Volume 1. Very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 85373.
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Imprint: 1867 [CHINESE LANGUAGE] WADE, Thomas Francis. WEN-CHIEN TZU-ERH CHI, A SERIES OF PAPERS SELECTED AS SPECIMENS OF DOCUMENTARY CHINESE, Designed to Assist Students of the Language as Written by the Officials of China. In Sixteen Parts, with Key. London: Trubner & Co., 1867. First edition. Two quarto volumes. xii, 456 pp.; iv,72,52 pp. 30 x 23 cm. The second volume has a separate title-page: KEY TO THE TZU ERH CHI. DOCUMENTARY SERIES. VOLUME I. CONTAINING TRANSLATIONS OF PAPERS 1 TO 75, AND NOTES TO PAPERS 1 TO 65, INCLUSIVE. Depsite the Volume 1 designation, there were no further volumes published. Both volumes have the title in Chinese characters at the head of the title-page, as well as a contemporary ink ownership (of J. E. Woodruff). In worn and rubbed contemporary bindings with marbled sides. Both volumes are missing the original red leather backstrip. The spine of the first volume, WEN-CHIEN TZU-ERH CHI, has been neatly covered with brown cloth tape and its hinges strengthened with white cloth tape. Additionally, Volume 1 shows internal and external evidence of worming. Internally, the worm damage is confined to the margins without affecting the text and there are some pencil notes. Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818- 1895), a British soldier turned diplomat and Sinologist, was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University. He developed a system of romanizing the Chinese language based on pronunciation conventions of the Beijing dialect. The system was later modified by Herbert Giles (another diplomat and scholar who had succeeded him as professor of Chinese at Cambridge) and became known as the Wade-Giles system. It was widely used throughout much of the twentieth century to represent the sounds of Mandarin in Western publications and is still used to represent some personal and place names. This work was prepared with the express purpose of preparing individuals destined to join Her Majesty's Consular Service in China with the written language of government as it appeared in books and in official correspondence. (Cordier III, 1689; DNB)., Fine Stock number: 85344.
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Imprint: 1980 (CHINESE BRONZES). THE WONDER OF CHINESE BRONZES. By Li Xueqin. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, (1980). First edition. 8vo.,, green cloth. 80pp. + color plates. A very good copy in a dust jacket that shows some light edgewear., Very Good Stock number: 47854.
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Imprint: 1980 (CHINESE BRONZES). THE WONDER OF CHINESE BRONZES. By Li Xueqin. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, (1980). First edition. 8vo.,, green cloth. 80pp. + color plates. Spine faded, else very good., Good Stock number: 57673.
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Imprint: 1790 From the library of Rene Champollion, the great nineteenth-century Egyptologist, and with the bookplates of Andre Champollion. CHOISEUL,DUC de. MEMOIRES... (Memoirs of the Duc de Choiseul, former Minister of the Navy, of War, and of Foreign Affairs). Chanteloup and Paris, Buisson, 1790. Octavo. Two volumes. (iv)271; (ii)279pp. First edition in book form. Modern half-morocco, gilt, and marbled boards. T.e.g. Originally printed privately in 1778, in the "cabinet" of the author at Chanteloup, "for his amusement." The publisher states that this edition is from the "only complete copy" of the first. Etienne Francois, Duc de Choiseul (1719- 1785), a protege of Mme de Pompadour, was active in forming the Austro- French alliance of 1757, directed French foreign policy during the Seven Years' War, reformed the Army and Navy, and formed an alliance with Spain. He brought about the banishment of the Jesuits, thus angering Mme du Barry, and precipitating his retirement in 1770. The memoirs are full of anecdotes and court gossip, as well as affairs of state. Some foxing here and there, otherwise a fine copy. From the library of Rene Champollion, the great nineteenth-century Egyptologist, and with the bookplates of Andre Champollion., Fine Stock number: 70786.
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Imprint: 1934 CHRISTIANSEN, Sigurd, translated by Isaac ANDERSON. CHAFF BEFORE THE WIND. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1934. First American edition. 319 pp. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt, black and blind. Near fine, minor shelfwear to edges and spine, cloth and lettering bright. In very good plus dust jacket, a little edgeworn, slight rubbing. Novel, translated from the Norwegian., Very Good Stock number: 84133.
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Imprint: 1898 CHRISTIE'S. JAPANESE PRINTS, PAINTINGS, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE THEODOR SCHEIWE, 2 VOLUMES. New York: Christie's, 1989. 201/99 pp. Small 4tos., dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Fine in very good dust jackets with light rubbing. Price lists laid in. Vol. I: Part 1, Tuesday, March 21, 1989 (Sale 6782); Vol. II: Part II, Monday, October 16, 1989 (Sale 6896). Illustrated in color and b/w, with some folding plates in color., Fine Stock number: 83707.
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Imprint: 1940 [CHRISTMAS]. THREE CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS. [n.p.] Longacre Press, 1940. (Reprinted from Hamilton Wright Mabie's "Book of Christmas," text by T. K. Hervey.) (unpag). One of 350 copies, unnumbered. 16mo., quarter red cloth over gilt speckled paper covered boards with red and silver paper label on front cover. Fine in a chipped glassine dust jacket. Origins of the Christmas Tree, the Christmas Card and the Yule Clog. (Log?), Fine Stock number: 81193.
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Imprint: 1988 Christo, Cyril. Whispering Veils. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (1988). 4to., glossy paper-covered board backed in beige cloth, illustrated with color photographs. Fine., Fine Stock number: 71779.
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Imprint: 1903 CHURCH OF ENGLAND. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1903. First American edition thus. 4to., violet cloth stamped decoratively in pink, periwinkle and gilt, 386 pp.. Sunned and worn at the spine and edges, corners bumped, binding lightly shaken. Somewhat soiled and rubbed at the boards, with two patches of damsptaining to the fron board. A good copy overall, very good internally. Religion., Very Good Stock number: 55867.
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Imprint: 1914 CHURCH, Arthur H. JAPANESE SWORD GUARDS Some Tsuba in the Collection of Sir Arthur H. Church. (Reading, England): Privately Printed, 1914. First edition, limited to only 100 copies, of which this is number 37. Bookplate of the art historian Charles Francis Bell, first Keeper of the Fine Art Department, Ashmolean Museum, with a note indicating that the book had been a gift from Arthur Church. Small folio, heavily illustrated throughout with 40 pages of collotypes of Church's remarkable collection of tsuba. A very unusual and valuable reference, and quite scarce. Very good, a few pages loosening. Green buckram covers, gilt., Very Good Stock number: 84887.
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Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages. This is the American novelist. Stock number: 78122.
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Imprint: 1966 (CHURCHILL, Winston). CHURCHILL: TAKEN FROM THE DIARIES OF LORD MORAN. The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. By Lord Moran. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First American Edition. 8vo., teal cloth w/dj. Near fine in a just slightly worn dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 70505.
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Imprint: 1906 CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, 2 VOLUMES. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First edition, New York issue. xviii +564 pp./ix + [1] + 532 pp. 8vo., red cloth stamped in gilt and blind, t.e.g. Cloth and gilt lettering, top edges bright. Minor shelfwear to spines and corners. Internally very clean and tight. Previous owner's personal bookplate in both volumes. Illustrated with photogravures and b/w reproductions. A son's very formal biography of his father. Stock number: 84359.
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Imprint: 1933 CHURCHILL, Winston. MARLBOROUGH. His Life and Times. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933-1937. First American edition, in five volumes (sixth additional volume published in 1938). 8vo., green cloth, spines in gilt. Ink signatures. A good set only with wear to cloth and spine. (Woods A40b)., Good Stock number: 53240.
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Imprint: 1933 CHURCHILL, Winston S. MARLBOROUGH: HIS LIFE AND TIMES. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First American edition. Two volumes of a biography that eventually reached six. 8vo., green cloth. Some wear to boards. Very good. (Woods A40b), Very Good Stock number: 28819.
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Imprint: 1957 [CHURCHILL, Winston] POSTER ADVERTISING VOLUME THREE OF A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (THE AGE OF REVOLUTION). Photo by Vivienne. Publisher's small (13 x 10 inches) poster mounted on white cardboard, printed in salmon and black and white. Bumped at corners, not affecting printed area. Banner (printed in black and salmon with black text and border) reads THE THIRD AND GREATEST VOLUME OF THE CHURCHILL HISTORY but does not list the series or volume title. Beneath this is a blurb from Sir Arthur Bryant from the Sunday Times: "A joint political history - the most comprehensive and discerning ever written - of the English-Speaking Nations". Beneath that is an 8 x 9 inch b/w photo reproduction portrait of Churchill by "Vivienne." A few smaall areas of light soil in margins, very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 85328.
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Imprint: 1947 CHURCHILL, Winston. THE CROSSING. Illustrated by Sydney Adamson and Lillian Bayliss. New York/London: The Macmillan Company/Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1904. First edition thus. Signed by Churchill (American author, 1871-1947) on front flyleaf. vii + 598 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertising (includes London's "The Call of the Wild."). 8vo., maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. TEG. Heel, crown and corners somewhat shelfworn/bumped; spine slightly rolled. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Pp. 29-30 partially detached at spine, not affecting text. A few pages roughly opened. Very good overall. Color frontispiece and plates; b/w illustrations in the text., Very Good Stock number: 80127.
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Imprint: 1959 CIARDI, John. 39 POEMS. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1959. First edition, inscribed by the author, "...Bread Loaf, 1960." 8vo., patterned paper-covered boards backed in green cloth. Near fine, in a spine-sunned, slightly edgeworn dust jacket with a touch of soil., Fine Stock number: 61772.
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Imprint: 1740 CIBBER, Colley. AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF COLLEY CIBBER, COMEDIAN, AND LATE PATENTEE OF THE THEATRE-ROYAL. With an historical view of the stage during his own time. Written by Himself. London: Printed by John Watts for the Author, 1740. First Edition. Frontispiece portrait by Van der Gucht after Vanloo. Quarto: A4. a4, B-Xx4, Yy1. 27.7 x 23 cm. [xvi], 346 pp. Early (possibly contemporary) mottled calf, gilt label and decoration in spine compartments, all edges red. Upper board is neatly re-jointed, lower joint is tender and starting at head, shallow loss at crown, gilt lettering and decoration has dulled and flaked in places. Text is clean and nicely printed on quality paper. Pictorial armorial bookplate of Arthur (1780-1860) and Elizabeth Holdsworth of Widdicomb[e]. Colley Cibber (1671-1757) began his career in the theatre as an actor in 1690. He soon won fame, acclaim that continued throughout his long career. After 1710, he managed the programming and the selection of new plays at the Drury Lane Theatre while continuing to act regularly in leading parts, often in new plays. He wrote twenty-five theatre pieces of various kinds (ten were adaptations from Dryden, Corneille, Fletcher, Shakespeare, and Moliere); and he was named Poet Laureate at the end of 1730. Cibber had friends in high places, including Philip Stanhope, the earl of Chesterfield, and Robert Walpole, the earl of Orford, but often feuded with other writers, most notably Alexander Pope and Henry Fielding. AN APOLOGY is more a professional rather than a personal autobiography and provides an authoritative account of the stage history in his time. Written in a chatty style, he vividly describes the performances, both onstage and off, of the brilliant actors and actresses of the Restoration stage: Betterton, Kynaston, Underhill, Nokes, Mrs Barry, Mrs Verbruggen, etc., the revolt of the actors in 1694-95, the rise of the actor-managers, of which he was one, and finally the fortunes and misfortunes of the Drury Lane Theatre between 1710 and 1732, overall a period of perfection and prosperity for the company. It was issued first in this handsome quarto edition in April, 1740, and a second edition was issued only a month later - though in a smaller, less expensive format; and it maintained its popularity throughout the nineteenth century. Even now it is a readable a Stock number: 89517.
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Imprint: 1783 Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. TULLII CICERONIS OPERA cum Indicibus et variis Lectionibus. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1783. Quarto. Ten volumes. The frontispiece, by J.K. Sherwin, is a fine engraving of a togate statue of Cicero in an Oxford collection. Full apparatus criticus and index. A beautifully printed, extensive eighteenth century edition of a great body of classical literature. Contemporary diced calf, rather dried and worn at extremities, and rebacked with large portions of the original spines laid down. Occasional faint foxing, else internally fine., Fine Stock number: 70892.
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Imprint: 1680 CICERO. TULLY'S OFFICES. In Three Books; Turned out of Latin into English. London: Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Paul's Church- yard, 1680. 208pp. 12mo., contemporary calf. Ownership label to front pastedown; ink and pencil ownership to ffep. Minor scuffing/soiling to boards; dampstaining near fore-edge of front board only. Some rubbing to boards and spine; front joint starting. Marginal staining to endpapers, else clean within. Very good., Good Stock number: 75731.
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Imprint: 1845 [CICERO] CICERONIS, M. Tullii, ed. Carolus HALM. ORATIO PRO P. SESTIO: ORATIONES, VOL. I PARS II. Lipsiae: C. F. Koehler, 1845. 339 pp. 8vo., rebound in 3/4 whire buckram with red and gilt cloth spine label, and marbled paper covered boards. Minor shelfwear to cloth, faint soil to spine. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. In Latin. Stock number: 79439.
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(CIGARETTE CARDS). WILLS'S CIGARETTE CARD ALBUM. Two hundred color- illustrated cigarette cards of insects and flowers, printed with a descriptive text on the reverse. [N.d.; circa 1915-1925.] The album contains two complete sets of "Garden Life," which shows common garden pests, and "Old English Garden Flowers," Series 1 & 2. Each set has a total of fifty cards. Each card (2 5/8 by 1 3/8 inches; 6.7 x 3.6 cm) is inserted into a window pocket, ten to a page, in the album which was specially designed to display these cards. The album is a small, oblong 4to., bound in green cloth, with a moire finish, over heavy bevelled boards, with "Wills's Cigarette Card Album" stamped in gilt to the upper board. The cards are mostly clean and crisp, with only a few showing light marginal foxing. The album shows light wear to corners, with some minor surface wear and spotting to the lower board. This is a charming collection in near fine condition., Fine Stock number: 58499.
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Imprint: 1979 (CIRCLE PRESS). THE CAMERA NEVER LIES. [By] Michael Peel. (Guildford): The Circle Press, (1979). First, and limited, edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author/photographer. 4to., full maroon leather lettered in gilt. Illustrated with tipped in photographs throughout. A fine copy, clean and bright, in a black cloth clamshell box, spine in gilt, that shows only slight occasional soiling and rubbing., Fine Stock number: 49538.
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Imprint: 1869 CIRCOURT, Count Adolphe de. Annales Franc-Comtoises. Besancon, 1869. A historical periodical on Franche-Comtois, a region among the Jura mountains in Eastern France. Two issues (September and October 1869), containing "Memoires du Jules Chiflet, Abbe de Balerne" by Count Adolphe de Circourt, both inscribed by de Circourt. A prominent statesman and literary figure in Paris, de Circourt was Ambassador to Berlin, friendly with William IV and with the deposed French Royal Family. He and his wife, a member of the noble Tolstoi family, kept a famous Paris literary salon from 1836 to 1863, frequented by Turgenev, de Vigny, Humboldt and Merimee. De Circourt was greatly interested in the USA; his correspondence with Alexis de Tocqueville is still in print, and he translated works on American history. Printed wrappers, lightly stained and worn. Together with the July 1865 issue, rather more worn. Stock number: 77110.
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Imprint: 1841 CIST, Charles. CINCINNATI IN 1841: ITS EARLY ANNALS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. Cincinnati: Printed and PUblished for the Author, 1841. 5 engraved illustrations, plus 2 engraved advertisements. 12mo. 300 pp., + 88 pp. adv. Original brown cloth with gilt-stamped title at spine; however, the top board, with the frontisp. & t.p. attached, is detached and the backstrip has a closed horizontal tear near the center. Ex-library; 19th century bookplate on front pastedown and two small embossed seals within. Plates and facing pages are moderately foxed, though text leaves are mostly clean. A good reading copy which,because of the binding, is offered as is. (Sabin 13152)., Good Stock number: 74902.
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