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Ōmizuao

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Description: "Omizuao is an accordion-bound 'pillow book'--A collection of landscapes, flowers and female nudes. The artist has used the accordion-bound format to create an installation which measures some 14 feet when fully opened, but which can also be viewed as 45 individual spreads ... hand bound in two clear-lacquered hardwood covers, and presented in a matching wooden box."--Publisher's description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2003]
Call number: 653306
Creator: Yamamoto, Masao (1957-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1590050584; 9781590050583
Provenance: Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.
Dimensions: 29 x 425 cm, folded to 29 x 9 cm

Ginza kaiwai

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Volume 1 contains Kimura's history of the Ginza. It is bound in embossed paper-covered boards with a plate mounted on the front cover. In a rice-paper covered slip case with illustrated label on front and text label on spine. Volume 2 is an accordion book or leporello with panoramas of the Ginza running along the top and bottom of the pages. It is bound in publisher's paper covered boards.

653030

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00/01

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"A 'box for the new millennium,' '00/01' includes an accordion-bound booklet entitled 'Things to Do' and a series of cards featuring a mix of verse and paintings by the Artist. All of this is housed inside a custom-made red acrylic box. Scholder's paintings, which have been exhibited widely and are part of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, combine the work of Jackson Pollock and other pop artists with Native American art. Born in 1937, Scholder formed the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1965, hoping to break free from the clichés of traditional Indian artwork designed and marketed mostly for tourists"--Publisher's description.

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What the worker wants : the Daily mail enquiry

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"On May 13th, 1912, the Daily Mail opened its columns to an inquiry into the causes of the Labour Unrest which within the last few years has become the most prominent and sinister phenomenon in the national issue inaugurated a discussion in which all shades of opinion should be frankly and fully expressed, all interests represented. Mr. H. G. Wells, the famous novelist and social writer, led off with a series of six stimulating and brilliantly lucid articles and contributed two further articles later in the controversy. ... In to response to many requests the correspondence has been reprinted in the following pages"--From preface.

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Between visible

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"'Between Visible' represents unique perceptions of some major intellectual figures of the late nineteenth to middle twentieth centuries: Sigmund Freud, Herman Hesse, James Joyce, Gustave Mahler, Junichrio Tanizaki, Le Corbusier, Mahatma Gandhi, and Leon Trotsky. Key objects that helped shape the work of these scholars are viewed through their actual eyeglasses giving tiny clues to various aspects of their lives. 'Between Visible and Invisible' refers to the correlation between the images on the surface (the visible) and the unknown narrative beneath the surface (the invisible) which when revealed changes the context of the photograph"--Publisher's description.

653299

A most excellent new ballad, of an olde man and his wife, which in their olde age and misery sought to their owne children for succour, by whom they were disdained & scornfully sent away succourlesse, and how the vengeancc [sic] of God was iustly shewed vpon them for the same. To the tune of Prissilla

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ESTC S121803 ; Verse - "It was an old man, which with his poore wife," ; Publisher's name supplied and publication date estimated by STC

18314

Japanese smallpox manuscript volume, approximately 1860

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Handwritten and illustrated book in Japanese on smallpox. The 29 double pages are mounted to an accordion-style book with stiff pages, and contain 27 hand-colored illustrations, many of which show the disease in three-dimension. The Kanbun text is handwritten. The book is covered in satin brocade with a paper title slip. Housed in a silk folding sleeve, also with paper title slip.

mssHM 82443

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