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Buenos Aires: Ed. Guarania. Fair with no dust jacket. 1983. Paperback. 4to 11" - 13" tall; ix 165 pages; 27 cm. Edición facsímil de la edición príncipe del año 1727. Publisher's original paper wraps. Contents heavily toned. Large nibbled area to back margin. .

Very Good with no dust jacket. 1967. first American edition. Cloth. B/w photos; Square 8vo ; Introduction by Yukio Mishima. Photographs by Tamotsu Yato. Illustrated with handsome gravures of bodybuilders, including Mishima. Dust jacket water stains most prominent on backside. Raises physique photography to the level of photographic art. Unmarked, no writing . .

Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Colored and b/w; 351 pages; 8.4" x 10.4" 5 lbs. Part 2 only. Vol I [not included] covers a history of bamboo carving. Lists 300 bamboo carvers along with their pseudonyms and biographical notes. Bamboo carvings before the Ming Dynasty in Literary Records, Bamboo Carvings by Known and Anonymous Carvers of the Ming Dynasty and Later in Literary Records, and Bamboo Carvings selected from the Hong Kong Collections. Text in Chinese and English. Sparkling copy- FINE. .

London: MacMillan & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1870. Second Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in tan calf leather over marbled boards with matching end papers and text block edges. Ornately gilded spine. Light wear. Bookseller's purple ink stamp on fep and penciled book number, otherwise clean. .

London: MacMillan and Co Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1870. Hardcover. B/w engravings; Originally published in 1864. Finely bound in tan calf leather over marbled boards with matching end papers and text block edges. Light wear. Color frontis. Clean, tight and sound volume. .

J and B Williams. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1840. Hardcover. 216 pages; Thoughts on Time, Death etc. Religious philosophy. 2.75 x 5 1/6". Full calf with scrapes. Moslty verse. .

Laird and Lee. Good with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition. B&W Photos; 8VO; Signed and inscribed by author. Printedon the Chicago Edition's cheaper paper which is darker. Waterstains. Half page inscription and signature. Sound and firm. .

Ny NY: Subscription Book Department With American News Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1877-9. FIRST EDITION.. Leather. 4to 11.5"; Solidly bound with contents fine. Text is fine with 800 illustrations. Vol II spine has faded to brown from black. 3/4 leather bound at spne and corners. Golden print on covers. One of the most popular of the 19th century books. Very discrete inked ownership of Winokur. .

Taipei: National Palace Museum. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9575621573 . Mandarin Chinese and English Edition; Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 322 pages; PIN LIE DUAN SHE; A SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF SUNGHUA INKSTONE : COMPARABLE TO THE BEST TUAN AND SHE INKSTONES. 1st ptg Sept 1993. In a cloth slipcase [NF]. Text is in both Chinese and English. 91 photographic plates [some are full page], of stones in beautiful colors along with numerous textural cuts in b/w. I can do no better than to quote Chi, Jo-hsin's brief summary of their history. The combination of brush, paper, ink stick and inkstone, commonly known as the "Four Treasures of the Scholar's Studio," make up the principal tools of the Chinese literati. Made of most durable material—stone slabs, jade, ceramics or lacquer—the inkstone is the best preserved of the Four Treasures. The history of the inkstone proper begins in the Warring States… Read More