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1946rif. 5303Quarto 29.5x21 cm. 81 pp. In unusually fine condition. Nicely preserved. Czech postwar avant-garde. Original mimeograph with illustrations photographs and photomontages. Printed as a manuscript and reproduced thus by Fechtner. A dadaist-spirited anthology of texts viewing the period of German occupation through a prism of nonsense and ridiculing those leading the way towards the bright future. The first doctored photo shows a group of people standing outside a building with a plaque that reads "In this house Pankrac Perla the founder of Recesse Is Still Snowing did not live." Pankrac Perla is the collective pseudonym for the "recessiste" or Mischief-makers an informal student group consisting of Ladislav Rychmann who later directed the first Czech musical Starci na chmelu painter and composer Frantisek Chaun the actor Josef Chvalina film historian and grandson of Jaroslav Vrchlicky Myrtil Frida and translator Jiri Becka among others formed in the late 1930s who drew partly on the humor of writers such as Jaroslav Hašek or Jaroslav Zak and partly on dadaism and surrealism. Czech scholars have attributed the influence of the Mischief-makers on the post-war generation of Czech intellectuals. The Czech language is the only language in the world that uses "recession" or economic decline to also mean joking irony and satire and a number of Czech linguists trace this second meaning to the group's creation of a specific type of humor bordering on the edge of slapstick absurdity and nonsense. The first story here Skurda v okupaci Skurda During the Occupation continues the adventures of the group's favorite protagonist Jordan Skurda first introduced in their 1937 novel We're Going to Bodele - Escape from the Sahara. The Mischief-makers were criticized by their elders for attacking authority of all kinds - parents teachers and officials - and the Czech fascist press seized upon their writings and pranks to criticize them as products of the Czechoslovak educational system. Petr Koura Literary noviny. Yet the fascists weren't alone: criticism of the group's influence on the Czech youth and their failure to take art seriously appears in the literary revue Kriticky měsiÄník in 1940. The humor collected in this anthology is unrelenting such as one letter to the Nazi ministry suggesting they ban senior citizens from feeding pigeons and put them to work; musicians too since violinists would could use their arm motions to saw wood with mathematical formulas backing up the claims. Another interesting contribution is the A Moment of Silence for the Final Congress of Coffee Tasters - in memory of the first "Dadaing" of Tristan Tzara - consisting of a three-page play with dadaists on rocking horses. OCLC locates on holding in North America Univ Toronto. Copies of this work when found are usually deteriorated; this copy fine. Fechtner paperback
rif. ABE-1518593974482New York: The John Day 1973 1973 Octavo 20.914.532.3cmLWH 3354p. Complete 10 book set all limited to 1000 Copies all Signed by Pearl S. Buck ALL NUMBERED 119. Top edge gilt. All in very good condition except some scratches on front cover of "My Several Worlds". The Good Earth Mother The New Year Imperial WomanFighting Angel The ExileMy Several Worlds A House Divided The Living ReedTo My Daughters with Love. More photos available upon request. Signed by Authors. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York: The John Day, 1973 hardcover
rif. ABE-8878097075Pearl S. Buck Large Size Original Photo 25.419.9cm signed and inscribed by Pearl Buck in pen. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Pearl S. Buck paperback
1946rif. 7700Wash. DC.: GPO 1946. First Edition. 39 parts and final report SD244. Illus. maps plates etc. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Complete file of all published. A compilation of mammoth scope and great research value.some ex-lib markings GPO unknown books
1935rif. 12233445665The sole UK printing published by George Harrap & Co.Ltd London in 1935. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. Light pushing at the spine ends and corners. A hint of toning and spotting the text-block. Free from reassures bookplates and inscriptions. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. Some small losses to the spine ends and corners more-so at the upper spine tip but not involving any lettering. A little light spotting and age related markings in places. The wrapper artwork by Pearl Binder is striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Black-and-white illustrations some full pages throughout. Writer illustrator folklorist an artist Pearl Binder's wildly scarce book which seeks to document the London lives of 10 individual types of EastEnders. Binder builds vivid and hilarious and often irreverent portrait of ten London characters of the early 1930s. These include an ostler named Bill a keeper of horses usually at inns but in this case for the Tower of London who began his work life as 'a butter slapper' ; a phrenologist the White Chapel Bell Foundry workers notable that there is a cause to try still to save the foundry today ; the wax workers of Madame Tussaud's a Bloomsbury bohemian an antique dealer a sex worker assigned the name Poule de Luxe by Binder a mixed race woman running an illegal Chinese lottery game called 'Pukka-Poo'. Parts of the book are certainly laugh-out-loud funny and the character descriptions are rich. Her portrait of 'the bohemian' describes a man named Basil who 'had learned by now to scoffr at everything except Picasso Cocteau and Gertrude Stein at mention of whom he came attention as stiffly as any English colonel before the Union Jack'. 'Odd Jobs' celebrates the East End diversity vibrancy in life and demonstrating Binder's commitment to Londons working class but inevitably reflects stereotypes of the era. At the same time Binders artwork and words are an evocative documentation of a pre-World War II city that was soon changed forever. She dedicated the book to 'To my friends Professor Bronislaw Malinowsky and Elsie Malinowsky These True Stories'. The daughter of a Jewish Tailor and a mother whose origins are not documented Binder moved to London after World War 1 and studied lithography at the Central School of Art and Design. She both illustrated books for other writers who documented London life and wrote and illustrated her own. She was a great supporter of the Pearlies the working class and womens rights. A very good copy of an exceedingly scarce title and an important book for collectors of London life. I can locate no other copies in commerce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. George Harrap & Co.Ltd, London hardcover
rif. 16155Pearl Buck archive of 3 items a TLS and two typescripts. Pearl S. Buck was the first American female laureate and used her work to advocate for child refugees and women. TLS 1 pg 1957. The letter is signed in full by Buck. She states she is sending an editor 2 texts promoting post war child adoption. Also her original Typescript 25 pages titled "Children Waiting"; and a second Pearl Buck Typescript 19 pages titled "What we can do about Children Waiting" Both Typescript have important content on adoption of children in Asia specially by American soldiers and include hand annotations. In part: "Two babies came from adoption agencies where they were considered unadoptable because it was difficult to find adoptive parents to "match" them. I was sure that there must be good families matching or not who could love these babies and indeed there were. . .Yet I continue acutely and constantly aware of the thousands of children waiting. . . . These are the citizens of my new world the children without parents and the parents without children pressing eagerly toward each other and yet unable to reach each other. A barrier stands between a high wall and in the middle of the wall is a narrow gate kept locked until a social agency unlocks it a little way and lets one child through at a time. . . .Nobody knows truthfully how many children are in our orphanages. There are many kinds of orphanages. most children are not perfect and so on. They can be helped to want a handicapped children a child of mixed origin or any child at all. . . . We can tear down the walls that keep them prisoners of red tape prejudice and religious division. . . . We can refuse to accept the excuse that there are not enough children to satisfy adoptive parents. unknown books
1946rif. 2509270069Government Printing Office Washington 1946. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 19 volumes of 39. Publisher's wraps. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear. Includes parts: 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 27 28 37 38 39. These parts include part of the Hearings of November 15 1945 through May 31 1946 Parts 8 & 9; Most of the Joint Committee exhibits no. 1-183 Part 12-21; Proceedings of Roberts Commission Part 22-25; Proceedings of Army Pearl Harbor Board Part 27-28; Proceedings of Hewitt inquiry Part 37-38; Reports findings and conclusions of Roberts Commission Army Pearl Harbor Board Navy Court of Inquiry and Hewitt inquiry with endorsements Part 39. Government Printing Office, Washington paperback
1982rif. mon0000001021Yale University Press 1982-09T. hardcover. Very Good. 0.7087 in x 7.7953 in x 5.3543 in. 1st edition 1st printing with complete number line. Hardcover with very good dust-jacket. Clean and solid. No tears stains or odors. NOT a book club edition. NOT ex-library. Hand-wrapped and packaged in cardboard. Yale University Press hardcover
1931rif. 143665New York: The John Day Company 1931. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100 line 17. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. Over eighty years have passed since The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know and I know nothing but China having always lived there" wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who want to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. The John Day Company unknown
1956rif. 165John Day New York 1956 . No other dates. VG/VG- Rare edition in Rare DJ. Collectible copy of hard to find book in early printing. Burnt orange hardcover in VG condition . Slight bumping to spines. Light shelf wear to edges and corners. Tight clean copy. A few tiny spots on first fly leaf otherwise no marks no book plate no P O no stickers no foxing no smells. DJ shows wear. Tears at top and bottom of spine as well corners and edges. Statement by Sterling North on the back of DJ "In Defense of the Novel". Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriquing rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi - Empress of China in youth a beautiful concubine in middle life a brilliant strategist in old age a goddess. Tzu Hsi was feared and hated by many in the court but adored by the people. The Empress's rise to power parallels the story of China's transition from the ancient to modern way. John Day hardcover
rif. Z1-C-013-02046Booklocker.Com Inc. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Booklocker.Com Inc unknown
rif. Z1-R-039-02304Jordans Pub. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Jordans Pub unknown
2012rif. 103701Rizzoli. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 248 pages; illustrated with many color and some black and white images. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2012. 0847839168 . Rizzoli hardcover
2016rif. 126502Princeton University Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- with a bonus offer-- . 2016. 0691172692 . Princeton University Press hardcover
2000rif. 15718West Nyack New York U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless -- with a bonus offer--; 015718; CAUSALITY PHYSICS SCIENCE . 2000. 0521773628 . Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
1978rif. 37353MInneapolis MN: Mary Ellen Enterprises. As New. Spiral Bound. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - 95 pages -- with a bonus offer--; T-Pinkha; Pinkham Mary Ellen & Higginbotham Pearl compilers and Editors The Best of Helpful Hints . 1978. Mary Ellen Enterprises unknown
2011rif. 101187Gallery. New. Folded Broadsheet. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 10-sided folded broadsheet with essay and 11 illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2011. Gallery unknown
1918rif. 140944922New York: Henry Holt and Company 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. First printing with title page dated 1918 and "Published May 1918" on copyright page. vi 363 1 6 ads pp. Bound in publisher's blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. A Fine copy with a few minor spots of foxing to fore edge but bright and clean both inside and outside in a Fine dust jacket with just a hint of sunning to spine panel. Rare in such a lovely jacket. The second novel by bestselling author and poet Pearl L. Curran who claimed to be channelling the spirit of Patience Worth a 17th century English immigrant to America. In a Smithsonian Magazine article Gioia Diliberto writes: "Speaking through a Ouija board operated by Pearl Lenore Curran a St. Louis housewife of limited education Patience Worth was nothing short of a national phenomenon in the early years of the 20th century. Though her works are virtually forgotten today the prestigious Braithwaite anthology listed five of her poems among the nation's best published in 1917 and the New York Times hailed her first novel as a 'feat of literary composition.' Her output was stunning. In addition to seven books she produced voluminous poetry short stories plays and reams of sparkling conversation-nearly four million words between 1913 and 1937.". Henry Holt and Company hardcover
1941rif. 192145c. 1941. China through the eyes of a Nobel laureate An annotated and amended manuscript showing differences in phrasing with the final version which was published three years after Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1934 after the success of The Good Earth Buck relocated from China to the United States. Writing in the preface to her 1941 short-story collection Buck recorded how she had "not ceased to follow China's changes and struggles with unending interest sympathy and implication." Together 12 sheets 260 x 205 mm each written one side only. Paperclip marks and pinholes where formerly wire-stitched: very good. unknown
1972rif. 128786John Day 1972. Leather. Like New. 11 volume collection of Buck signed limited edition 25 of 1000. Gilt titled leather spine over paper boards. Top edge gilt. No jackets as issued. Look unread. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. John Day hardcover
rif. EBS100172New Haven: Yale University Press 1968; 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Alchemy and the Occult is an essential bibliographic reference that catalogs one of the most comprehensive private collections of alchemical and occult literature ever assembled. The work spanning four volumes meticulously documents rare books manuscripts and printed materials related to alchemy esotericism astrology magic and early chemistry. The Mellon Collection housed at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is one of the most prestigious collections of its kind featuring hundreds of primary texts from the medieval Renaissance and early modern periods. The catalogue serves as both an academic resource and a historical record providing scholars with insights into the intellectual traditions of alchemy and occultism. Bound in full two toned cloth with leather labels at spine. Folio: in orig. slipcase usual external wear but still VG internal condition excellent. Only 500 sets were published. Complete copies such as ours are now scarce on the market. Of considerable bibliographic and historic interest this impressive achievement minutely describes 160 printed works Vols. 1-2 and 149 manuscripts in the collection beginning chronologically with Apollonius circa 1225 and ending with Thomas Taylor 1790. A splendid catalogue that includes detailed bibliographical descriptions for each of the 160 printed books; each is described with painstaking accuracy and appears with illustrations. In Vols. 3-4 the 149 manuscripts are minutely described most of these were purchased by Mellon from Denis Duveen. These four volumes represent some of the "crown jewels" in the kingdom of hermetic bibliography and continue to inspire and inform students and scholars of Witchcraft Wicca Pagan Ritual Occult folklore anthropology primitive races and customs Mythology Ancient Magical Practices Ritual and Initiation Secret Societies Rosicrucian Egyptology Ancient Magical practices Aleister Crowley Andrew Chumbley Ceremonial and Black Magic Grimoire O.T.O. Golden Dawn Alchemy Hermetics Freemasonry Kabalah Cabala Kenneth Grant Austin Osman Spare Chaos Magick Church of Satan Anton LaVey Michael Aquino Temple of Set Demonology Satanism and more. From the famed B.H. Breslauer collection sale of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana at Christie's New York 27 June 2005 lot 1582 with letterpress bookplates loosely inserted into each volume. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968; 1977 hardcover
1931rif. 169441London: Methuen 1931. First UK Edition. Scarce in jacket. The first book in the author's House of Earth trilogy winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Basis for the 1937 Victor Fleming film starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer who won an Oscar for her performance as O-Lan. Slightly cocked foxing to the page edges gift inscription to the front endpaper generally Very Good in a Very Good or better dust jacket with moderate toning to the spine a small chip to the heel affecting the N in Methuen and a few tiny splashes to the top right corner of the front panel. Methuen unknown
rif. 123837London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament 1653. . 24mo 11.5 x 6 cm; engraved title-page ownership inscriptions in pen to front free endpapers a little toned; contemporary calf covers tooled in blind with initials 'H L' lower original clasp with scallop-shell terminal present upper clasp missing gilt floral cornerpieces faded all edges gilt rubbed with slight loss very good. A well-preserved 'Pearl Bible' so-called for its small size which made it ideal for carrying in one's pocket dating to the Interregnum. A pleasant example in the original clasped calfskin binding. The engraved general title depicts Moses and David and the Evangelists and omits the usual words of the King James Version 'by His Majesty's special command'. ESTC R14315; Herbert 653; DM 496. London, Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament, 1653. unknown
1931rif. 12342New York: John Day Company 1931. First Edition First Issue. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. vii 375. Rebound in red cloth lettered in gilt light toning to pages. Inscribed by Buck on first half-title page referring to the lengthy Proust quote that begins the novel on the verso of first half-title page. "I inscribe this book. The quotation from Proust is important to me for it expresses in another medium what I tried to do for a few people of China. boldly signed Pearl S. Buck" Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chronicling the rise and decline of a family's generational fortunes in rural China through the lens of its protagonist Wang Lung. It delves into the challenges faced by the family encompassing hardships wealth corruption and their profound connection to the land in late 19th-century early 20th-century China. John Day Company hardcover
1933rif. 162586London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1933. In the time of Five Kingdoms confusion reigned high. First UK edition first impression of the first full translation into English of one of the most widely read novels in any language here finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery. The product of five years of scholarship Buck's translation was first published in the US in 1933 in two volumes with the present edition following just a few months later. All Men are Brothers tells of 108 heroic outlaws led by Song Jiang who establish a fellowship on the Liangshan mountain in Shandong and relentlessly uphold values of kinship and virtue in a world dominated by corruption and evil-doers. The novel provides "a vast social panorama whose characters include nearly all the types and occupations of China. Priests and courtesans march across the pages along with merchants scholars tavern keepers politicians and minor officials farmers fishermen slaves aristocrats and children. There is even a succession of mythical animals. At the center of the action is the robber band enforcing rough justice in a bad world" Conn p. 137. Octavo 207 x 134 mm. With lithographed frontispiece after an illustration from a Chinese edition of the text; vignettes in text. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black morocco spine lettered in black on red label within two raised bands front cover blocked with red vignette of Lin Chong turn-ins double-ruled in red red endpapers edges gilt. A fine copy. Peter Conn Pearl Buck: a Cultural Biography 1998. hardcover
