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Aboriginal Sf: July - August, Aug. 1987
Woburn, MA, Aboriginal SF. 1987. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 1, No. 5. Cover art by Bob Eggleton. Includes "Our Alien Publisher"; "Books" by Darrell Schweitzer; "Aborigines" by Laurell Lucas; "The Reel Stuff" by Jessie Horsting; "Boomerangs"; "Editor's Notes" by Charles C. Ryan; "Books Received"; "Merchant Dying" by Paul A. Gilster; "Borboleta" by James Stevens; "Doing Time" by John Stith; "The Darkfishers" by John Gregory Betancourt; "Symphony in Ursa Major" by James Brunet; "It Came from the Slushpile" by Bruce Bethke. Illustrated by Bob Eggleton, Cortney Skinner, Pat Morrissey, Morris Scott Dollens, and Larry Blamire. Corner creasing; rusty staples. Very Good+.
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![ALLEN, Charles Bruce; Murata Fumio & Yamada Koichiro., [Seiyo Kasaku Hinagata].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Allen10644.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Seiyo Kasaku Hinagata].
Tokyo, Gyokuzando 1872 (Meiji 5). Four volumes 23x15cm publisher's wrappers with printed title labels. Illustrations through the text and full page plates - copper engravings. Labels rubbed and mildly chipped; a rather good copy.
¶ The first western architecture book published in Japan. I'm intrigued by the choice of the modest 'Cottage Building, or hints for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes' - one of Weale's utilitarian Rudimentary Treatises. Why not European grandeur? American mass production? Allen's small book first appeared in 1849-50 and remained in print, progressively updated, into the 20th century. This translation was made from the 1867, sixth edition. A sensible enough choice I guess, but when has sense played any part in the introduction of new ideas? Murata Fumio edited 'Seiyo Bunkenroku' (1869 &c) - based on the reports of the Takenouchi mission of 1862 - which focused on England so the connection is clear enough. That there was any significant group pushing for philanthropic reform this early in the Meiji restoration comes as a surprise to me; perhaps this book was chosen as a slap in the face to the opponents of westernisation and modernisation. Ostensibly it was a response to the 1872 Tokyo fire. Allen's book was given by an Englishman to the translator as useful for information on fire-proof buildings. Could it be that simple? Worldcat finds no copy outside Japan - Columbia apparently has a later reprint. A search of the specialist libraries I can think of found no more.
¶ The first western architecture book published in Japan. I'm intrigued by the choice of the modest 'Cottage Building, or hints for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes' - one of Weale's utilitarian Rudimentary Treatises. Why not European grandeur? American mass production? Allen's small book first appeared in 1849-50 and remained in print, progressively updated, into the 20th century. This translation was made from the 1867, sixth edition. A sensible enough choice I guess, but when has sense played any part in the introduction of new ideas? Murata Fumio edited 'Seiyo Bunkenroku' (1869 &c) - based on the reports of the Takenouchi mission of 1862 - which focused on England so the connection is clear enough. That there was any significant group pushing for philanthropic reform this early in the Meiji restoration comes as a surprise to me; perhaps this book was chosen as a slap in the face to the opponents of westernisation and modernisation. Ostensibly it was a response to the 1872 Tokyo fire. Allen's book was given by an Englishman to the translator as useful for information on fire-proof buildings. Could it be that simple? Worldcat finds no copy outside Japan - Columbia apparently has a later reprint. A search of the specialist libraries I can think of found no more.
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Keywords: architecture building design c19th England Japan Asia reform progress utilitarianism pattern books meiji
Stories Annual: 1955 Edition
NY, Standard Magazines. 1955. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1. Only issue produced. Pulp magazine. Edited by Alexander Samalman. Cover art reprinted from various Standard Magazines pulps. Includes Three Detective Stories: "Partner's Payoff" by Roger Dee; "The Murder Tap" (novelet) by M. E. Chaber; "Vengeance Is Not Enough" by Bruce Elliott. Three Western Stories: "Time for Violence" by Hascal Giles; "Hawk in the Sunlight" by Robert Stephens; "Brandy on Their Minds" by Paul Rendall Morrison. Three Storts Stories: "Cheese Champ" (novelet) by Bill Erin; "Diamond Outcast" by T. W. Ford; "They're Dead at Cooperstown" by Fletcher Flora. Three Science Fiction Stories: "Earth Person Singular" by Charles A. Stearns; "King Lode Revisited" by Herbert D. Kastle; "Bannion's Cave" by Margaret St. Clair. Twine dents; minor losses; minor soiling; tanning; a little bent at lower end from poor stacking. Very Good.
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Argosy Weekly: September, Sept. 12, 1936 ("Bengal Fire")
NY, Frank A. Munsey Co. 1936. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 267, No. 3. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Albert J. Gibner.] Cover art by Rudolph Belarski for "Transpacific Plunder" (novelette) by Frederick C. Painton. Includes "Harp's Blood" (novelette) by Major R. E. Dupuy; "Bengal Fire" (pt. 2 of 6) by L. G. Blochman; "Dusty Dan" by John R. Phillips; "Men of Daring: Roger Q. Williams, Veteran Flyer" (True Story in Picture) by Stookie Allen; "The Speed King" (pt. 3 of 4) by George Bruce; "Getaway Money" by Charles T. Jackson; "Don Peon" (pt. 4 of 4) by Johnston McCulley; "He Reached for the Stars" by James P. Olsen; "S. R. O. for Ghosts" by Oscar O'Keefe; "Call for Pioneers!" by J. Wentworth Tilden; "Have You Heard These Yet?" by Charles Dorman; "Looking Ahead"; "Argonotes". Illustrations are uncredited. Spine tears with loss at heel; creasing; tanning; small corner losses. Good+.
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Argosy: May 1990
Long Beach, CA, Richard Kyle Publications. 1990. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 3, No. 1. "Premiere Edition." Edited by Lawrence Burne. Cover art ("The Rebel") by Steranko. Includes "The Savage Gentleman" (pt. 1 of 2) by Philip Wylie; "Boston Blackie's Mary" (novelet) by Jack Boyle; "The Reversible Revolutions" by C. M. Kornbluth (writing as Cecil Corwin); "A Hot Afternoon" by John Staib; "The Doll House" (graphic story) by George Metzger; "True Profession" by Bruce Pelz; "Star Empire" by Isaac Asimov & Charles Schneeman. Illustrated by D. Bruce Berry and Glen Murakami. Rubbing; minor creasing. Very Good.
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Argosy Weekly: November, Nov. 14, 1936
NY, Frank A. Munsey Co. 1936. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 268, No. 5. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Albert J. Gibner.] Cover art by Emmett Watson for "Terror Stalks the Mangroves" (complete nove) by Eustace L. Adams. Includes "A Little Workup for Windy" by W. C. Tuttle; "Crime on Tristan" by Murray Leinster; "The Last Crusade" (pt. 2 of 3) by Martin McCall; "Men of Daring: Le Roy Prinz, Adventurer" (True Story in Pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Annapolis, Ahoy" (pt. 4 of 7) by George Bruce; "Death Certificate" by Alexander Key; "El Caballero" (conclusion) by Richard Wormser. Features: "Now They're Counting Gravy Spots" by Donald Klingler; "The Waether Man Is Right!" by Joseph Kittredge; "Which Witch Is Which?" by Oscar O'Keefe; "Hoodooed Treasure" by Charles Dorman; "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead!" Uncredited illustrations. Tanned; a bit less than standard edgewear. Very Good+.
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Argosy Weekly: November, Nov. 14, 1936
NY, Frank A. Munsey Co. 1936. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 268, No. 5. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Albert J. Gibner.] Cover art by Emmett Watson for "Terror Stalks the Mangroves" (complete nove) by Eustace L. Adams. Includes "A Little Workup for Windy" by W. C. Tuttle; "Crime on Tristan" by Murray Leinster; "The Last Crusade" (pt. 2 of 3) by Martin McCall; "Men of Daring: Le Roy Prinz, Adventurer" (True Story in Pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Annapolis, Ahoy" (pt. 4 of 7) by George Bruce; "Death Certificate" by Alexander Key; "El Caballero" (conclusion) by Richard Wormser. Features: "Now They're Counting Gravy Spots" by Donald Klingler; "The Waether Man Is Right!" by Joseph Kittredge; "Which Witch Is Which?" by Oscar O'Keefe; "Hoodooed Treasure" by Charles Dorman; "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead!" Uncredited illustrations. Tanned; wraps a little faded; three small holes in cover at upper front foredge corner; tape ghost at head; minor soiling. Very Good-.
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Argosy Weekly: January, Jan. 16, 1937 ("Seven Worlds to Conquer"; "Wench Caravan")
NY, Frank A. Munsey Co. 1937. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 270, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Cover art by V. E. Pyles for "Sword of the Sahara" (short novel) by Robert Carse. Includes "Seven Worlds to Conquer" (pt. 2 of 6) by Edgar Rice Burroughs; "The Book With the Golden Leaves" by Alexander Key; "Swamp Secret" by Henry F. Church; "Baby Face" (pt. 3 of 4) by George Bruce; "Eye in the Sky" by Dale Clark; "Wench Caravan" (conclusion) by Johnston McCulley; "Right Court Shot" by Albert David Marx; "Lizards with Venom" by John St. John; "Old as the Hills" by Walter Kennicott; "Clover Came Late" by Charles Dorman; "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead!" Illustrations are uncredited. A little soilig of wraps; tanning; standard wear and tear at edges; short tears at spine ends with loss at head; checkmarks in pencil on contents page. Good to Very Good-.
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Asimov's Science Fiction: February, Feb. 2002
NY, Dell Magazines. 2002. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 26, No. 2. Cover by Ron Miller for "Across the Eastern Divide" (novella) by Allen M. Steele. Inlcudes "Tourist" (novelette) by Charles Stross; "Touch Pain" (novelette) by Cecilia Tan; "The Long Chase" by Geoffrey A. Landis; "Quantum Anthropology" by Liz Williams; "Treading the Maze" by Steven Utley. Poems: "When the Aliens Ask of Art" by Amy Milller; "Corn Snake" by Mary A. Turzillo; "LaGrange Point" by Alex Irvine; "Arbitrary Night in the University Lab" by Bruce Boston. Departments: "Reflections: The Final Voyage of Odysseus" by Robert Silverberg; "On the Net: Movies"; "On Books; "The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss. Minor wear; label bits remain on front; glue-shrink; rear cover lightly rubbed with small edge nicks. Very Good.
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Catalogue: Magazines
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Open Letter Fifth Series, No. 1 L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Issue
Toronto, Open Letter, 1982. Perfectbound, 165 pp. 5.5"-8.75". fine. A good one: Bernstein, Mac Low, Seaton, Davies & Pombino, Vattimo on Heidegger, Watson, Silliman, Rasula, Darragh, Eigner, Fujini. Then, Benson on Kathy Acker followed by Acker herself. To Bruce Andrews.
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L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Vol. 1. Number 6 December 1978
New York, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 1978. Staplebound, 20 pp. 7"-8.5". fine . 10 writers respond to a text from the Tender Buttons of Gertrude Stein; Davidson, Eigner, Perelman, McCaffery, Seaton, Armantrout, Higgins, MacLow, Andre and Grenier. Fragile but fine condition.
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The Book of Adventure and Peril: A Record of Heroism and Endurance on Sea and Land
London and Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo. 1876, First Edition. leather. Used, Numerous beautiful engravings, decorated chapter headings, gilt lettering and tooling to spine, bands on spine, decorated end papers, marbled page block, fading to spine, head of spine is chipped away, back board detached from spine and page block, rubbed tail of spine and corners of boards, front inner paper hinge is torn, text clean and tight. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket.
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Catalogue: Literature
Broad Stone Of Empire: Problems Of Crown Colony Administration, With Records Of Personal Experience. By Sir Charles Bruce ...With maps.
London: Macmillan And Co, Limited, St Martin's Street, 1910 . 0. First edition. A very good 2 volume set in the original bindings. Red cloth covered boards. Edges and corners lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with gilt titles. Clean throughout, just light toningt to endpapers and spotting to the title pages. VG. Contents Include: .Vol.1 : Crown colonies - National policy 1815-1868 - Colonial policy 1815-1868 - Imperial policy 1868 & after - Colonial Office - Colonial governor - Local government - Law - Labour - Race - Health. - Vol.2 : Education - Religion - Agriculture - Forestry - Commerce - Finance - Transport - Meteorology - Imperial communications - Fiscal system - Expansion - Defence - Crown - Apologia - Appendix. *** "Sir Charles Bruce (1836-1920) was a civil servant and colonial administrator who served for thirty-six years in various administrative and governing roles in Mauritius, Sri Lanka, the West Indies and Guyana. These volumes, first published in 1910, contain Bruce's discussions of the major problems of colonial administration. He provides a detailed survey of the development of national and colonial policy from 1815 to 1868 and imperial policy from 1868 to 1872, illustrating the historical context of late nineteenth-century colonial administration. Bruce then discusses in detail topics of importance to colonial administrators, including Crown law, labour and health, illustrating solutions to problems from his considerable experience. These volumes were intended as a reference work for students of colonial administration, and provide a wealth of information on the organisation and administration of British colonies in the nineteenth century. Volume 2 contains his discussion of education, communications, the fiscal system and commerce.".
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Keywords: 47007 Bruce, Charles Sir Macmillan and Co. E Broad Stone of Empire : Problems of Crown Colony Administration Bruce, Charles History
"Crommelin's Thunderbirds / Air Group 12 Strikes the Heart of Japan"
"Naval Inst Press", "1994, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar / good copy". ISBN: 9781557505095.
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The Crown Colonies and The War. An uncommon original article from the Edinburgh Review, 1915.
Edinburgh Review, Longmans, Green & Co. 1915. First Edition, Disbound. Very Good Condition. 17 Pages. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: Octavo (24 x 16 cms). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Edinburgh Review; Inventory No: 202686.
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Keywords: BZDB395 Edinburgh Review; Charles Bruce The Crown Colonies and The War. An uncommon original article from the Edinburgh Review, 1915.