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Hairy Lemons contains six stories: Cucumber zombies, Life on a thread, Bert with an extra head, Where are the dead birds, Chicken peanuts and Hairy lemons. Specifications: Size: 24 cm x 17 cm Pages: 32 Year: 2023 Print: Offset. See https://verabekema.bigcartel.com/product/hairy-lemons-zine (accessed Feb. 1, 2025)

Scope and Contents Dealer description: [Title unidentified][Artist unidentified].[Tōkyō: Chūō Hyōron-sha, ca. mid-Shōwa period (1950-60s?)]. A small printing block for a strip comic that probably appeared in a publication by the Chuō Hyōron-sha (the Chuo University Review), as this company name is inscribed on the side of the block. The strip seems to show a man being thrown out of an onsen while despondently mumbling "I'm in shambles" ("ワシャ方ナシ"). After changing...

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Dealer description: Hosokawa Chidaruma Jikki: Ehon Jitsuroku ["True Record of Blood Covered Hosokawa: Illustrated Book of Real Events"] Shimizu, Yoshirō [text by]; [Kawatake, Shinshichi III (original play by)]. Asakusa, [Tōkyō]: Maki Kinnosuke, Meiji 22 [1889]?

Scope and Contents A well-preserved woodblock (135 x 205 x 19 mm.), with the work’s illustrated title-page — Iroha mondō — on one side of the board and text on both, used in the printing two leaves of an iroha textbook for children and the illiterate. Japan: late Edo or early Meiji. An illustrated printing woodblock, carved on both sides and in excellent condition, that bears two leaves – the title-page and page one and leaf two, both of part one – with 36 panels containing teaching phrases to memorize the...

Scope and Contents A Western medicine-inspired gōkan illustrated by EisenOkoma ga Chū mon Shirokiya Shiire Onna-obi Ito-ori Hachijō ["A Woman's Obi Woven from Hachijō Silk, Ordered by Okoma and Procured by Shirokiya"] Tōzaian, Nanboku [text by]; Keisai, Eisen [illustrations by]. Tōto [Edo]: Kansendō Izumiya Ichibē , [preface dated Bunsei 7 (1824)]. A gōkan by two powerhouses of Edo literature and illustration—Tōzaian Nanboku and Keisai Eisen—starring the characters Onoe, Idahachi, Okoma, Saiza, and...

Scope and Contents Miburi Iroha ["The Iroha in Gestures"] Tōzaian, Nanboku [preface and text by]; Shōchōrō [Utagawa], Kunimaro, Kitao, Shigemasa [II] [illustrated by]. [Edo]: Yamaguchi, [ca. late Edo period (after 1829)]. An inventive gōkan also known under the title Miburi Iroha-gei, featuring illustrations of people twisted into the shapes of the characters of the Japanese hiragana syllabary. The text accompanying each illustration relates through direct quotations how the figures came to be in the odd...

Content Description From the Collection:

Printed works such as posters, comics, and books collected and purchased in support of Rice University's instruction in the areas of book arts and printng arts. Techniques include woodcuts, screenprints, letterpress printing, hand illustration, and more. This collection is developed by Fondren Library Collection Development Librarians, Special Collections Librarians, and campus partners especially in the Departments of Art and Art History.

Scope and Contents 穎才新誌社. [Eisai Shinshisha]. 東京. [Tokyo]. 5th edition Meiji 30 [ 1897] Black and white illustration on upper cover, 19 x12.6cm, 136pp, even browning throughout, original wrappers trifle soiled and chipped but generally good. This distinctive book offers an analysis of magic and hypnosis as psychological phenomena, rather than serving as a practical guide. In the foreword, the author, writing under a pseudonym, asserts that there is no mystery in magic and hypnosis, and proceeds to explain...

Scope and Contents 11x17" softcover booklet / zine format. Booklyn dealer description: "This publication lands somewhere between a zine, an artist book, a giant flipbook, and an image collection. 27 different graphic icons representing cameras and surveillance were collected and piled on top of each other—each page in the book is followed by a page with an additional camera icon added to it, the final page so covered that it becomes difficult to even see what you are looking at.While the book is...