SELECTED PROPAGANDA POSTERS OF AID VIETNAM AGAINST AMERICA 援越抗美宣传画选
by Chairman Mao
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. ... Read More
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THE CRIMINAL RECORDS OF THE U.S. IMPERIALIST INVADING CHINA 《美帝国主义侵华罪行录》
by Chairman Mao
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。
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(MAP-BEIJING) LATEST MAP OF PEKING AND CHINA 最新版北京和中国地图
by MAP-BEIJING
(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... Read More
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Zuijin zhi Dongya Xingshi Tujie [Map Explaining the Latest Situation in East Asia].
by (MAP - CHINA, East Asia)
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... Read More
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THE ART OF MEMORY. A Treatise useful for all, especially such as are to speak in Publick
by D'ASSIGNY (Marius)
D'ASSIGNY (Marius): The ART OF MEMORY. A treatise useful for all, especially such as are to speak in Publick. London: J Darby for Andr. Bell, 1706. Engraved frontispiece of Minerva, Hercules and the three Graces, being watched over from above. 8vo, xvi 79pp + [1] advert; early two-toned vellum, later gilt leather labeled spine. Third edition, corrected; originally published 1697, reprinted 1699 and 1712. Intended for young men to boost their powers of retention and secure clerical or state positions. A... Read More
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The Marmalade Man
by PROVENSEN (Alice and Martin)
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; as well as being a Caldecott Honor recipient for the illustrations (1982)
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Sendak in Asia. Exhibition Catalogue
by SENDAK (Maurice):
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... Read More
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At Home with Jack and Guy
by SENDAK (Maurice):
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... Read More
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The Acrobat.
by SENDAK (Maurice):
SENDAK (Maurice): The Acrobat. New York: Capricorn Press [1959]. With 14 small illustrations hand-colored by the artist. Oblong 64mo, [8] leaves (folded), self-wrappers (sewn), measuring 1-1/8 x 5 inches. A Fine copy. First and only edition of the rarest of Sendak's books, only 30 copies printed (unnumbered, SIGNED) from fourteen blocks, issued as a Christmas greeting, divided between the printer Robert Brooks and the artist. The narrative is of an ambidextrous tumbler who folds himself into a ball; along comes a dog who eats... Read More
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MAURICE SENDAK. Zeichnungen 1953-1970.
by SENDAK (Maurice):
SENDAK (Maurice): MAURICE SENDAK. Zeichnungen 1953-1970. Zurich: Galerie Daniel Keel, 1974. With 94 reproductions of drawings offered for sale in Mr Sendak's first European one-man show organized by the director of Diogenes, his German language publishers. Square 8vo, 61pp + [2] adverts; pictorial printed wrappers. Limited to 1000 copies. this being one of the first 200 (# 70) numbered and signed by the artist. Laid inside is a copy of the gallery price-list for... Read More
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Happy Inauguration
by SENDAK (Maurice):
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... Read More
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The Visual Arts Gallery Presents the Work of Maurice Sendak.
by SENDAK (Maurice)
SENDAK (Maurice): The Visual Arts Gallery Presents the Work of Maurice Sendak. {New York: School of Visual Arts, 1964). Square 32mo, [16]pp with eleven unnumbered page illustrations by Maurice Sendak comprising one of his Fantasy Sketches, a mother picking up her crying child from the crib, breast-feeding the child, replacing the child in its crib the child becomes a pig, the pig breast-feeds and then runs away. Deigned by Milton Glaser, this is the first exhibition catalogue to Sendak's first... Read More
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Atomeysik For Hvermand.
by SENDAK (Maurice):
SENDAK (Maurice): ATOMEYSIK FOR HVERMAND by Dr Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff and Hyman Ruchlis. Copenhagen: H Hagerup, 1948. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak, his first book "Atomics for the Millions". Tall 8vo, 324pp + [6] index; pictorial colored wrappers (white spine discolored, lightly creased). First Foreign Language translation of a book illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the Danish version prepared by V. Thorsen. The drawings done when Sendak was 18 years old, originally published in New York... Read More
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Sendak and Caldecott for Horn Book Magazine
by SENDAK (Maurice)
SENDAK and CALDECOTT A watercolor in homage of his muse Original ink and watercolor drawing depicting Moishe "Wild Thing", Sendak's avatar, mimicking the artist Randolph Caldecott's self-caricature drawing from his period of sketching in Brittany (1870s), now given a garden backdrop and including "The Cat and the Fiddle", Caldecott's dog, and a blackbird aloft – with a Wild Thing to bring home the sentiment. The design was commissioned by The Horn Book Magazine, a Boston based publication which since inception in 1924 used... Read More
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My Lady Nicotine
by BARRIE (James M)
BARRIE (James M), 1860 – 1937 and PRENDERGAST (Maurice B), illus., 1858 – 1924 My Lady Nicotine. A Study in Smoke. Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896. 8vo., xiii 276 pp.; embossed decorative green cloth (corners a bit rubbed, spine slightly soiled). Illustrated by M B Prendergast, with pictorial title illustration in color. First American edition. (Copyrighted 1895) Provenance: Maurice Sendak, with his bookplate
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Guerre d'Orient. CAMPAGNES d'EGYPTE et de SYRIE 1798-1799.
by NAPOLEON's Memoirs
(NAPOLEON's Memoirs) Guerre d'Orient. CAMPAGNES d'EGYPTE et de SYRIE 1798-1799. Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de Napoléon dictes par lui-méme a Sainte-Heléne, et publiés par le Général Bertrand. Paris: au Comptour des Imprimeurs-Unis, 1847. Three volumes, including a folio atlas with 18 double-page maps by Alexandre Moisy, also including a partially printed proof duplicate of map 11: Siége de Saint-Jean-de-d'Acre laid inside rear cover (split at center fold). 8vo, [iii], lv 406pp + errata - [iii] 455pp + errata; both... Read More
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Comus: A Masque
by MIILTON (John), KING (Jessie M), Illus.
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.
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THE SIMPLE COMMUNICATION KNOWLEDGE HANDBOOK FOR MILITIA 《民兵简易通信知识画册》
by MILITIA
THE SIMPLE COMMUNICATION KNOWLEDGE HANDBOOK FOR MILITIA 《民兵简易通信知识画册》 Internal Material Published by the People's Liberation Army for Training, June 1974, oblong 12mo, [vii] 53pp.; pictorial wrappers, minor edge tears but overall good condition. Starting with three quotations of Chairman Mao, this book displays the simple communication knowledge in three sections with pictures and text, section 1: Introduction of Simple communication tools, section 2: Organization and Use of Simple Communication. Section 3: Illustration of Bugle. 本画册由中国人民解放军通讯兵部1974年6月出版，训练资料，内部发行。画册包括三部分内容：1. 简易通信工具介绍；2. 简易通信的组织和运用；3. 军号图解。封皮稍有边缘破损，少许缺失，总体品相非常好。
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UTOPIA ... translated into English by Raphe Robinson (1551), a new edition with copious notes ... by Thomas Dibdin.
by MORE, Thomas, Sir
MORE (Thomas), Sir ... UTOPIA ... translated into English by Raphe Robinson (1551), a new edition with copious notes ... by Thomas Dibdin. London: William Bulmer, Shakespeare Press, for William Miller, 1808. Two volumes, portrait frontispiece + various head and tail pieces throughout the volume. 8vo, clxxx 141- [iv] 320pp; early red grained morocco, spines and fore-edges extra gilt. Corrections leaf bound behind 2nd title-page.First edition of Dibdin's important version of More's Utopia, preceded only... Read More
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THE FAIRY BOOK. The Best Popular Fairy Stories selected and rendered anew
by [CRAIK (Dinah Maria Mulock)]
[CRAIK (Dinah Maria Mulock)]: THE FAIRY BOOK. The Best Popular Fairy Stories selected and rendered anew. London: Macmillan, 1863. Circular title=page vignette by J Noel Paton showing a prince discovering a sleeping princess. Square 8vo, xi 368pp + [8] advert catalogue; original gilt pictorial green cloth, small fraying to upper right spine but overall a FINE COPY. First edition comprising 36 fairy tales retold from the writings of Perrault, Mme d'Aulnoy, the Bros Grimm, &c. The editor is best remembered... Read More
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HAIR. The American Tribal Love Rock Musical by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.
by (BROADWAY MUSICAL)
HAIR. The American Tribal Love Rock Musical by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Original typescript created prior to off-Broadway production by Studio Duplicating Service Inc (446 West 44th Street, NYC), title gilt-stamped and recessed on upper cover, title-page "copyright 1966" listing contact details for Authors and Producer, collates [i], 1-45, 2-27, bound in teal cartridge wrappers with double-rivets, small tears along outer wrapper edges but no loss. An icon in establishing the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the... Read More
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Handbook of Indian Dances
by (American Indian) STEWART (Dorothy N):
(AMERICAN INDIAN)Handbook of Indian Dances I. New Mexico Pueblos. By Dorothy N. Stewart. Santa Fe, NM: Pictograph Press, 1950. Indian Ceremonial Dances of the Southwest. 8vo., [16] ff., pictorial wrappers. Original edition with 8 color block serigraph prints.
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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)
by FAN ZIHOU & LI NU
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,... Read More
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Revelations of My Friends.
by (BOOK ODDITY)
(BOOK ODDITY) Revelations of My Friends. London: Dow & Lester, Foresters' Hall Place, [London} E.C.1, undated but with vintage inscription on front free endpaper dated 1922. Small printed vignettes and ink sketches throughout. 12mo, [52]ff; thin leather with blind pictorial design on upper cover, gilt-titled on front cover and spine (edges rubbed). A word-game book with 25 pages of questions and blank openings seen through openings from the next page below. Once filled in,... Read More
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SELECTIONS FROM REPERTOIRE OF OPERATIC SONGS AND TERPSICHOREAN MELODIES OF MEI LAN-FANG - by Professor Liu T’ien. Hua 梅兰芳歌曲谱
by Chinese Opera
SELECTIONS FROM REPERTOIRE OF OPERATIC SONGS AND TERPSICHOREAN MELODIES OF MEI LAN-FANG - by Professor Liu T'ien. Hua 梅兰芳歌曲谱 Published in 1929, specially edited and printed for Mei Lan-Fang's performance in the United States. Mei Lan-Fang was invited by America in the winter of 1929, to help the people better understand Chinese Opera, the master of Chinese songs Liu Tianhua produced two volumes of books, one in Chinese (126pp.) and the other in English (118pp.), which includes 18 Kunqu Opera with... Read More
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