[Rarebooks] fs: 2 SCARCE WORKS BY SADAKICHI HARTMANN

[Norman Kane]

We offer 2 nice issues of Guido Bruno’s “Chap Books” from 1915-16, both entirely devoted to the bad boy of American letters, Sadakichi Hartmann:

HARTMANN, SADAKICHI.  MY RUBAIYAT. Published by Guido Bruno in his Garret on Washington Square, N. Y., May, 1916.  Original pictorial wrappers, lightly sewn into a protective cover.  The cover of the Chap Book bears a wonderful full-length rendering of Sadakichi in slouch hat and overcoat.   ("The metre [of the poem] is a combination of Whitman's free rhymeless rhythm . . . and the vague alliteration of sounds in quarter tones characteristic of Japanese poetry" - Preface. Hartmann was personally acquainted with Whitman, and had published a very scarce pamphlet of their conversations.)  $70.00  ($60.00 to the trade) postpaid

---------------.  TANKA AND HAIKAI. 14 JAPANESE RHYTHMS. Edited by Guido Bruno in his Garret on Washington Square, June, 1915.  Original wrappers, laid into a protective cover.    Hartmann is reputed to have been one of the first to write haiki in English. He writes: "The Tanka (short poem) is the most  popular and characteristic of the various forms of Japanese verse.  It consists of 5 lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables - 31 syllables in all. The addition of the rhyme is original with the author."  $70.00  ($60.00 to the trade) postpaid

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