[Rarebooks] Offering: Nine Items, Oriental Interest

Wed Feb 17 14:50:30 EST 2010

Nine items, Oriental interest. Prices in Canadian dollars, at par with US.
Post extra. Terms as usual.  Trade discount allowed.

1) BRAMAH, Ernest., THE WALLET OF KAI LUNG., 
Boston: L.C. Page and Company. 1900. First 
American edition, utilizing British sheets. 
Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in 
black, white and lime; top edges gilt. 337 pp + 2 
publishers catalogues at rear [7 pp + 12 pp]. The 
author's second book and first work of fiction; 
also the first work by Bramah to be published in 
America. Small mark at base of spine, scattered 
foxing; a very good clean copy of a very attractive book.  $225.00

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2) FENOLLOSA, Mary McNeil., THE DRAGON PAINTER. 
ILLUSTRATED BY GERTRUDE MCDANIEL., Boston: 
Little, Brown and Company. 1906. First edition. 
Octavo, original pictorial grey cloth stamped 
with an elaborate dragon image in blue, yellow 
and red on spine and front panel, titles in 
yellow and gilt. [262] pp + [4] pp publishers 
notices at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard 
plus five additional full page plates. Light 
rubbing & minor dust soiling; very good copy. ¶ 
Japanese novel set in Tokyo on the origins of the 
Kano school of painting, written by the wife of 
Ernest Fenollosa the Japanese art historian $40.00

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3) GILES, Herbert A. [translator]., STRANGE 
STORIES FROM A CHINESE STUDIO. TRANSLATED AND 
ANNOTATED BY HERBERT A. GILES,, Shanghai, 
HonkKong, Singapore: Kelly & Walsh, Limited. 
1926. Fourth Revised edition. Octavo, original 
orange cloth stamped in black. 488 pp., 
Appendixes. Minor tanning to spine panel, a very 
good, clean copy. ¶ 164 tales translated from the 
Chinese Liao Zhai, the ancient collection of 
strange tales of mystery, magic and metaphysics 
gathered by P'u Sung-Ling. $45.00

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4) GUITERMAN, Arthur., CHIPS OF JADE. BEING 
CHINESE PROVERBS WITH MORE FOLK SAYINGS FROM 
HINDUSTAN AND OTHER ORIENTAL COUNTRIES. RHYMED IN 
ENGLISH., New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. 
[1920]. 1st edition. Octavo, original orange 
cloth stamped in black. 86 pp. Fine copy. $20.00

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5) LEGGE, James, D.D., LL.D., THE FOUR BOOKS. 
CONFUCIAN ANALECTS, THE GREAT LEARNING, THE 
DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN, AND THE WORKS OF MENCIUS. 
WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND NOTES BY JAMES 
LEGGE, D.D., LL.D., Shanghai, China: The Chinese 
Book Company. 1930. Octavo, original boards with 
blue cloth spine, titled in black on front panel 
and in gold on the spine (in English and Chinese 
characters). 1014 pp. Originally issued in 1861. 
Ink inscription on front endpaper, dated Peiping, 
China, 1931, previous owner's bookplate. Light 
wear; very good copy. ¶ Prints four sacred books 
of Chinese literature, with the Chinese text 
printed at top, translation in the middle, and 
commentary at bottom of each page. James Legge 
(1815-1897) first professor of Chinese at the 
University of Oxford, lived in Hong Kong 1843-1873. $75.00

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6) MACDONALD, Alexander., THROUGH THE HEART OF 
TIBET. ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM RAINEY, R.I., New 
York & Boston: H.M. Caldwell Company, (nd) 
[1910]. First American edition. Original 
pictorial blue cloth designed in black, brown and 
orange, lettered in gilt. Page edges stained 
green. Grey coated end papers. 384pp. Colour 
frontispiece & additional seven plates by William 
Rainey. Bound from English sheets, printed in 
Glasgow; the American title page is a cancel. The 
British first edition was issued by Blackie in 
1910, with only 6 prints, in black and white, 
printed by Villafield. First American edition, a 
stunning copy, and the preferred edition, for 
more color plates. Lost race. A tale of adventure 
and a dangerous secret expedition, set in Tibet - 
a mysterious stranger, a moonstone, the forbidden 
land, a fight in the red monastery, the Dalai 
Lama and the secret of the tomb-keeper. $175.00

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7) ROUSSELET, Louis., THE SERPENT-CHARMER. 
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MARY DE HAUTEVILLE. 
WITH 63 ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY A. MARIE., New 
York: Charles Scribner's Sons. No Date [1879]. 
First American edition. Octavo, original 
pictorial red cloth elaborately decorated in gold 
and black. 294 pp + [14] pp publishers notices at 
rear. Cover title is "The Serpent Charmer / A 
Tale of the Indian Mutiny". Title page states 
there are 63 engravings; the list of 
illustrations itemized 48, which corresponds to 
the number in the book. In addition there are 19 
small vignettes. Adrien Marie clearly 
collaborated with another illustrator / engraver, 
Henri Theophile Hildibrand, whose name also 
appears in the plates. Light shelf wear, edge of 
one plate a bit worn (re-inserted); generally a 
very bright, attractive copy in a highly 
decorative binding. ¶ Well-illustrated fantasy of 
the East Indian mutiny, with borderline lost race 
interest, where the protagonists visit a strange 
dead city in the Himalayas inhabited only by 
friendly monkeys sacred to Hanuman. $75.00

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8) SOULIE, George [translator]. P'ou, Sung-ling,, 
STRANGE STORIES FROM THE LODGE OF LEISURES. 
TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE BY GEORGE SOULIE OF 
THE FRENCH CONSULAR SERVICE IN CHINA., Boston & 
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913. First 
edition, American issue, bound from British 
sheets. Small octavo, rebound in a curious and 
interesting binding, decorated cloth with 
pictorial devices of Chinese characters and 
mythological creatures amidst a pattern of vines, 
rice paper spine over brown cloth stamped 
"CHINESE STORIES" in gilt; rice-paper 
endpapers.166 pp. Very good copy. ¶ Weird and 
supernatural stories, translated from the Leao 
Chai Chi Yi of Sung-ling P'ou, [1640-1715]. $75.00

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9) WATANNA, Onoto [pseudonym of Winnifred Eaton]; 
KATAOKA, Genjiro (Illustrator]., TAMA. 
ILLUSTRATED BY GENJIRO KATAOKA., New York & 
London: Harper & Brothers. 1910. First edition. 
Octavo, original pictorial green cloth decorated 
with a design of a blossoming tree in green and 
pink, gilt lettering, decorated endpapers, top 
edges gilt. [244] pp., colour frontispiece with 
tissue guard, hree additional full-page colour 
plates. Each leaf decorated with an Oriental 
design in the margins. Neat early inscription in 
ink on front endpaper, a fine, bright copy. ¶ 
Japanese Romance novel. Winnifred Eaton 
[1875-1954], popular Canadian author of 
Chinese-British ancestry, adopting the name of 
"Onoto Watanna" to pass herself off as 
Japanese-American. A very attractive book. $50.00

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