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Paris: Editions Bessard, 2012. First edition. One of 450 numbered copies signed by the artist. Text in English and Chinese. Octavo in size (5 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches) but in reality it is an accordion-folding singe work measuring 27.5 feet in length. Upon it are two visions of the history of monuments; the recto bearing a collage timeline and the verso using human models caked in mud to express the same ideas. Publisher purple silk over boards with gilt spine and cover lettering. In the original (and odd) match slipcasee. An excellent copy.Wang Quingsong is a famous Chinese artist. Speaking of this work he said "Since August 2009, I started to work with two hundred models over fifteen days, shooting the 42-metre-long History of Monuments. This work is my reflection on what is told about civilisations, beauties, virtues, standards and norms The models are smeared with mud and placed into the carved out contours of the photo backdrop. Chinese traditions are handed down from generation to generation with…
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History of Mouments.
by QIUNGSONG, Wang
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The Prairie and the Sea.
by QUAYLE, William A.
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Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1905. First limited edition. One of 248 numbered copies, signed by Quayle and printed on Japon vellum. Octavo. 341, [1] pp. Extensively illustrated and with many full page. Publisher's plaing gray boards, printed paper spine label, t.e.g., original ribbon. A couple of minor chips, else a lovely and clean copy of this book.William Alfred Quayle (d. March 1925) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1908.
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Les Mystiques Litanies de Sainte Jeanne d'Arc.
by QUESNEL, Joseph
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Coutances: Impr. de Notre-Dame, 1920. First edition. Sixteenmo. Limitation unstated but signed by the author. 24 pp. Printed in red and black and with a full page color woodcut by Pierre Le Conte of a flower. Publisher's buff wrappers with red lettering, original glassine. An excellent copy.Written by Quesnel in celebration of the recent canonization of Joan of Arc. Joseph Quesnel was a founding member of Le Pou Qui a cultural association of Coutances, created in 1915, which brought together young artists of the area. It was sponsored by Adolphe Willette, who proposed to "revamp folk art" and "make Coutances known and loved not only in Normandy, but also in all the literary and artistic circles of the country" (Georges Laisney ). Among the founders were were Joseph Quesnel (1897-1931), René Jouenne (1897-1923) and Jean Thézeloup (1885-1968). Only one copy recorded by OCLC.
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English Notes: A Rare and Unknown Work. Being a Reply to Charles Dickens's "American Notes". Critical comments by Joseph Jackson and George H. Sargent. And Two Portraits.
by QUICKENS, Quarles [pseud. of Joseph Jackson]
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New York: Lewis M. Thompson, 1920. First edition. One of 100 copies. Octavo. 182 pp. plus two portraits (one as frontispiece). Publisher's beige boards with brown cover and spine lettering. In the original black dust jacket with gilt spine and cover lettering. Bookplate of railroad and banking magnate John A. Spoor. Mild foxing to endpapers but overall a lovely copy in a lovely jacket."English Notes for General Circulation by “Quarles Quickens,” a pamphlet published in Boston on December 6, 1842, was ascribed to Poe by Joseph Jackson in “Dickens in America Fifty Years Ago” (World’s Work, January 1912, pp. 292-293). The pamphlet was reprinted in 1920. W. N. C. Carlton demolished the ascription in the Americana Collector for February 1926" (Mabbot).Quarles Quickens is not a pseudonym of Joseph Jackson, who merely reprinted and incorrectly promoted the work as being by Poe. The pseudonym was used for the original 1842 printing. That author has just now been identified as Nathaniel Wheeler…
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