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William M. Klimon wrote:
John, you're back. OK, I suppose I am. For now, at least. You can see you haven't missed much. As I recall it, Scott Kamins asked what happened to this newsgroup, and things just went downhill from there! What's the latest brag or brawl from Tokyo? I've spent the last couple of months ripping out the staircase of our house and replacing it. It's an old house in Japanese terms (40 years old) and people were quite a bit smaller then, so the treads on the stairs were very narrow, plus they negotiated a nasty curve, making them quite dangerous. I took a tumble down them one night in January and decided, "That's it! I've had enough!! and rebuilt the staircase. Had to redesign the downstairs area, too, to accommodate the new design. Still not finished, but it's looking good. I guess that's not the kind of brag you were looking for, though... On the book front, the books I buy in Japan are pretty much things I buy for resale, so they're not really collector's brags. Unless you think of them as *some other* collector's brags, of course, in which case I guess they merit a mention. Two of my recent favourites are a set of Japanese translations of Doc Savage: http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/DOCSAVAGE1.JPG http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/DOCSAVAGE2.JPG http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/DOCSAVAGE3.JPG http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/DOCSAVAGE4.JPG http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/DOCSAVAGE5.JPG and a Meiji period (1906) Japanese-language edition of Darwin's Origin of Species: http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/darwincover.JPG http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/darwintitle.JPG http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/darwinfrontis.JPG http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/darwincolophon.JPG http://rarebooksinjapan.com/images/darwincontents.JPG The Doc Savage stuff was fun for peanuts; the price I got for it for it didn't even begin to compensate for the time it took to chase up a set for the person who asked for it and another set for his friend. But it was fun, as was a bunch of books on Japanese airships that someone had me running around for round about Christmas time. The Darwin was a very handsome book, and a good example of Meiji-period scholarship; it was preceded by another Japanese edition, a decade earlier, whereas the first complete Chinese edition didn't come out until nearly twenty years later. My *real* brags are those in my own collections. I have done nothing on the Victorian women front, but there's a lot of stuff to update on the martyrs web pages (http://rarebooksinjapan.com/religious/index.html), with some veritable treasures that I shall post there in due course. Other than that, I just paid an excellent price for the scarce first edition of Arthur Collins' Letters and Memorials of State (2 volumes, 1746). This is the first published edition of the letters of Henry Sidney, Philip Sydney, Robert Sydney, et al. - a fascinating insight into the political wheeling and dealing of the Stuart and Jacobean periods. There's a lot of stuff on Ireland under Elizabeth, which I'm looking forward to studying in earnest. And - I can't resist mentioning, though it's not a book at all - a lovely Muromachi (14th-16th century) period Buddhist statue (http://rarebooksinjapan.com/Kotouhin/muromachi.JPG). How about yourself? -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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Bud Webster wrote:
Christ, I should have kept my mouth shut. Hi, Bud! We've hijacked your thread to have a civilised discussion. Don't feel shy about butting back in, but could we keep religion out of it? ;-) Basta, amigo... -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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"Bud Webster" noted:
Christ, I should have kept my mouth shut. Don't worry Bud, I put Spamamoto on my kill file so I won't be reading any more of his hypocritical ravings. -- Bob Finnan http://bobfinnan.com |
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"John Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote in
message ... How about yourself? I've had a good run since last you were here. We had a blast at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair in San Francisco this year. I had good chats with Michael Zinman, Bill Reese, Rick Gekoski, Peter Howard, Joe McCann, and Ricky Jay, among others, as well as my old friends Christopher Edwards, Dave Szewczyk and Cynthy Buffington, and Kevin Johnson. My book from the Fair this year was the very last thing I looked at at the very last booth I visited, Maggs Bros. I picked up a convert trifecta: Evelyn Waugh's life of Ronald Knox inscribed by Waugh to Alec Guinness (converts all). It was far from a steal but I did get a nice discount off their catalog price (the book just hadn't sold for some reason). I've since gotten a few more nice things from Maggs and Chr. Edwards, but I'll save the details for later. Oh, alright, one mo I got quite an interesting piece of 17/c anti-Catholic literature, which I don't usually delve into, unless it attacks someone's conversion directly. Well, this is the mother of all anti-convert pieces: the *Legenda Lignea* (1653). As Maggs described it: "It begins with a list (printed in red) of 53 English Catholic converts ["A Legend of Revolters to Rome"], nine of whom, including Sir Toby Mathew, Walter Montagu, Hugh 'Serenus' Cressy, and Richard Crashaw, are single out for detailed attack: hence the title Legenda Lignea, a "wooden legend" in ironic imitation of the saints' lives in the medieval Golden Legend." Apparently, this is one of the earliest biographical pieces on Richard Crashaw, so I've got that going for me . . . which is nice. William M. Klimon http://www.catholicbookcollector.com |
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William M. Klimon wrote:
I got quite an interesting piece of 17/c anti-Catholic literature, which I don't usually delve into, unless it attacks someone's conversion directly. Well, this is the mother of all anti-convert pieces: the *Legenda Lignea* (1653). Now there's a brag! Enviously, -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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