[Rarebooks] FS: Sadakichi Hartmann

[Nina W. Matheson]

For your consideration today:

Hartmann, Sadakichi.   My Rubaiyat.  Saint Louis, The Mangan Printing 
Company [c1913]. Original white paper boards. Boards rubbed at thecorners, 
darkened on the covers, stained on the front cover, fold over at the top of 
the spine missing. Frontispiece portrait of the author. "Drawings " by 
Delberta Weiss. Unidentified inscription on the front free endpaper: "To 
introduce my friend" followed by Japanese characters. 79 pp.  $200.00

Hartmann, Sadakichi.   Confucius, a drama in two acts.  Los Angeles, Cal., 
Privately Printed, 1923. Front hinge cracked, paper wrap-around label 
chipped, corners rubbed, otherwise very good. Blue cloth, red printed 
wrap-around label, tied with cloth in the Japanese style. One of 500 
copies. Inscribe d by Hartmann "To Wyn Schindler" on the recto of the leaf 
following the title-leaf.  $175.00

Hartmann, Sadakichi.   Confucius, a drama in two acts.  Los Angeles, 
Privately Printed, 1923. Joints cracking and cords beginning to fray, as 
usual, otherwise very good. One of 500 copies. Japanese-style binding 
stab-bound with cord ties. Small broadside about Hartmann tipped to the 
front past edown. 90 p.  $85.00

Batchelor, John, comp.  The Sadakichi Hartmann papers, a descriptive 
inventory of the collection in the University of California, Riverside, 
Library.  Riverside, University of California, 1980. Original printed 
wrappers. Lower corner bumped, otherwise near fine in lightly soiled 
wrappers. Introduction by Harry Lawton. Compiled by John Batchelor. Edited 
by Clifford Wurfel. 140 pp.  $35.00

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