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1940réf. 4448Pennsylvania 1940. Very good. Original drawing on ruled notebook paper 194 x 124 mm = 7.6" x 5" preserved in 11" x 14" frame with museum glass and 8-ply archival mat edges frayed and with some light browning as is true with almost all surviving examples of this artist's work. EMBLEMATIC AMERICAN OUTSIDER ART CREATED BY A "VILLAGE WITCH" A TOTAL RECLUSE WHO EXISTED IN COMPLETE ANONYMITY ON THE EXTREME FRINGES OF SOCIETY. YEARS AFTER HER DEATH IN THE ABANDONED HOUSE IN WHICH SHE HAD LIVED FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS -- WITHOUT ELECTRICITY OR RUNNING WATER -- WAS FOUND A HUGE COLLECTION OF EXTREMELY PERSONAL "NAIVE" DRAWINGS. THE FREAKISH 2002 DISCOVERY WAS RECOGNIZED AS A MAJOR MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN OUTSIDER ART. INDEED IN A REVIEW OF THE 2003 NEW YORK OUTSIDER ART FAIR IT WAS PRONOUNCED THAT "THE MOST ARRESTING FIND THIS YEAR IS PEARL BLAUVELT." The discovery was made by two artists Dennis and Donna Corrigan who had purchased the old post-and-beam house located "in the middle of nowhere" in the Poconos of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Underneath boxes of moldy antique books fabric scraps and broken pieces of furniture they found a wooden box crammed with what initially appeared to be heaps of worthless paper. Closer examination by the new owners revealed the significance of their discovery: the box contained more than 800 imaginative drawings of various scenes of life real and imaginary American and otherwise some of which are multi-layered and defy the so-called "rules of optics" depicted as if from multiple perspectives simultaneously. In a 2020 New York Magazine review of an exhibition of Blauvelt's works Johanna Fateman described the drawings as "faithful to their own rules of proportion and perspective." The drawings date from the 1940s and obsessively chronicle the inner life of a woman who during her lifetime was described as the "Village Witch." In their announcement of the discovery the Corrigan's related that several of the drawings were laced together with shoestrings in primitive book form while others were contained in dime-store notepads or old school composition books as here. Blauvelt's interior world must have been very rich indeed: again and again she returned to depicting what "real life" on the outside must have looked like to her. Through her drawings almost all of which bore titles of her own invention she catalogued the material world and the spiritual world often merging the two realms into strange and wonderful compositions. Our highly imaginative drawing seems to be unique in her oeuvre. Boldly labeled "Sprite the Fairy" the butterfly-winged figure seems to hover above mushrooms flowers and thick leaves. The fairy's right hand is raised from which issues swirling vapors. The drawing features Blauvelt's signature "x-ray vision" perspective: beneath the fairy's dress can be seen the ribcage sternum and spine as well as the left thigh bone. Almost nothing was known about the former occupant of the dilapidated house. In the course of their research the new owners determined that Pearl Blauvelt was born in 1893 and had moved there with her father in the early 20th century. By the mid-1970s she was declared incompetent and was moved to a mental facility in Pennsylvania where she resided until her death in 1987. Her work is included in major permanent and private collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris Collection abcd Paris Museum of Modern Art New York Museum of Everything London the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia and Gerhard and Karin Dammann Collection Switzerland. She has received posthumous solo exhibitions at Andrew Edlin Gallery NYC Kerry Schuss Gallery NYC John Michael Kohler Arts Center Sheboygan. PROVENANCE: D. & D. Corrigan -- Andrew Edlin Gallery NYC -- Private Collection USA -- Steven S. Powers Gallery NYC -- Private Collection USA -- Eldritch Oculum -- Michael Laird Rare Books. LITERATURE: Dennis Corrigan and Donna Corrigan "Pearl Blauvelt: The Village Witch" in: Raw Vision 2002 No. 39 pp. 52-56. John Yau "A Bird's-Eye View of Heaven" in: Hyperallergic posted online May 6 2012. Gerhard Dammann "Making their own Money: Painted Banknotes by Raimundo Camilo Pearl Blauvelt and Other Outsider Artists" in: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences Nov. 2018 Vol. 28 no. 1 pp. 15-17. Christian Rattemeyer Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonne MOMA 2009 pp. 93-94 six drawings. Ken Johnson Review of the New York Outsider Art Fair in: The New York Times Jan. 24 2003. unknown books
1933réf. 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
1931réf. 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
réf. 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
1931réf. 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
1931réf. 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 books
1972réf. 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
réf. 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
1941réf. 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
1918réf. 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
1918réf. 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 books
2012réf. 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
2016réf. 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
2000réf. 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
1978réf. 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
2011réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 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
1931réf. 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
1956réf. 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
1982réf. 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
1946réf. 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
1935réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 17365preserved in a quarter morocco custom slipcase. A few pages are trimmed at the top with no loss of text perhaps to excise page number which was then corrected in ink; very attractive original condition. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. An early draft of the manuscript in mixed format consisting of original typescript original pencil holograph and original ink holograph with corrections by Buck in both ink and pencil. There is considerable variation from the final published text. unknown
