Beauty And The Book

Sourav De Illustrator: NA: Life Near the Sky...Ladakh, Shubhi Publications 2011 ISBN: 9788182902251

New Hardcover 21 x 20 cm. Ladakh is the God's canvas. One can find every hue of life. And there is magic. Every hue changes with the magical interplay of light and shade. It is to see to believe. This book attempts to capture some of those magical moments. While compiling the photographs, I regret many such moments which I could not capture. My first visit to Ladakh happened in October 2009. As I stepped into this amazing land, I simply grew an addiction for it instantaneously. There is awe in every nook and corner, and every moment I was being mesmerized by its mystic beauty and grandeur. The picturesque land spoke a thousand silent words, echoing beauty, grandeur, serenity and a plethora of expressions and feelings. The best option to capture those moments of exhilaration and share it with everyone was photography and then this book. This book, which I had thought to have unravelled the mystery, has actually intensified it. That is actually the true Ladakh, the lady mysterious. The land and its people, the mountains and the monks each expressed in their own way, a charm hard to resist. I certainly wanted to share them with you. Ladakh, the mysterious, the magnificent and the spectacular should be your next destination, if you are game for unusual experiences. I have tried my best to collate all the required nformation, so that this exotic place can be ventured by you in the most comfortable and convenient way. This book covers all details needed for you to know this picturesque place. Apart from its glorious past, the book attempts to capture the life of people. While I was photographing Ladakh, I was constantly wondering as to what I could do to share the experience of the place with you. It is then that Sanjay Arya, a friend I knew, popped up the proposal of publishing the book. His enthusiasm boosted my desire to share the beauty of this amazing land with you. Printed Pages: 128. First edition

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WU, L.T. et al.. CHINA AS SHE IS: A Comprehensive Album 1934..
A MAJOR FOLIO SIZE BOOK WITH CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHICS This is a major resource on all provinces of China, with a chapter on each, showing products, photographs of the sights and useful description of the art manufactures & art works, natural & historic beauty, many fold out statistical charts, a fabulous guide to the 'real' China. By and large, the most comprehensive single source on the whole country ever done before World War II. A scarce item. * Beautifully photographed in b.w. by the eminent Chinese veteran photographer Mr. Yuan-Heng Chang. He was also associated in Shanghai with Liang Yu Publishing Co., as an editor. During his sojourn he traveled extensively throughout China contributing his photographs to this work as well as CHINA TODAY, CHINA'S SCENIC BEAUTY, CHINA'S SCULPTURAL BEAUTY and CHINA'S ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY. Later he became the publisher and editor-in-chief of Liang Yu Hua Pao [Young Companion]. In 1948 he moved to Hong Kong. * Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * BUY WITH * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

Shanghai 1934, Liang You Pub. Grey cloth, 474p., oversize, statistical fold-out charts, profusely illustrated in color & b.w. plates, all edge gilt, full text in English & Chinese gold stamped, 9 fold out charts, 2nd impression. R A R E

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IKEDA, Terukata.. BIJIN: JAPANESE BEAUTIES THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL SEASONS..
A LOVELY PERIOD ALBUM WITH JAPANESE WOMEN AND CHILDREN The complete title can not be read as its written is the "running grass" style or Shosho. Our colleagues in Japan found it most impossible to read, except for the last two characters "Bijin" or Beauties. Thus the work contains a lovely set of 12 views of Japanese women and children during the festivals of the four seasons. This work relfects the "fin-de-secle" feeling. The women and children are nicely clad in beautiful and most colorful Kimono, with elaborate coiffeur, reflective of the late Meiji-early Taisho period. The twelve veiws have a cartouche in the upper right. Subj- ects covered: 1: A woman is seated on a large Zabuton or cushion, along side a Hibachi or brazier, while she awaits the arrival of a friend. 2: Two women sit outside, one drinks tea while they both view the lovely plum blossoms. 3: A teen-age girl plays with her younger sister as she holds a sprig of cherry blossoms, while under a blossoming cherry tree. 4. Spring outing shows a lovely beauty seated on a cloth with two umbrellas while she looks at butterflies. 5: A young woman looks out of a round window on to the blooming iris garden. 6: Rainy day shows the beauty going out with her umbrella. 7: Shows the beauty seated on a balcony with bamboo screens to keep the mosquitos away, she looks wist- fully outside at dusk. 8: Tsuki-Mi or Moon Viewing festival in August, shows a mother and daughter with food offerings on trays and a lovely flower arrangement dedicated to the Gods placed on the Engawa [outer porch], with a moon high in the sky. 9: Omatsuri or summer festival, shows a large Miko- shi or portable shrine is in the background while three beauties observe the festivities from a large platform with lanterns. 10: New Year's offerings, shows a father, mother and daugher who holds a sprig of bamboo with offering poems tied to it as they go out side to celebrate. 11: Shows a serving girl at a Sake shop, others prominade in the back- ground. 12: Shows the last day of the year, the mother is wearing wintery Kimono and a head cover scarf tied around her neck, while her daughter carries New Year's decorations and a kite with a Daruma face, others prominade in the back- ground. A truly lovely work, covering the seasons & festival season in Japan. A good reference book on this period & type of woodblock color prints with examples can be found in Amy Stephens: THE NEW WAVE: 20TH CENTURY JAPANESE PRINTS FROM THE ROBERT O. MULLER COLLECTION. Terukata is also listed in K. Brown: TAISHO CHIC: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, & Deco pp.42, 43, 88 for other fine color examples & essays on him. Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * BUY WITH * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

Japan n.d. ca 1900-3. Calico cloth covered accordion folding album, all edges silver gilt, Chuban, 12 x 17.5 cm., 12 fine color woodblock prints, hand-printed on hand-made paper each is a double-page, or 23.5 x 17.5 cm, nicely done. UNUSUAL !

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Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Random House Inc, 2001. ISBN: 039457589X

First edition 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3). The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. A tight, pristine copy. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. 550 pages with index. Black and white photo illustrated. JMVINTAGE specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. This Dust Jacket reads: "THIRTY YEARS after the smashing success of ZELDA, a national phenomenon that sold over 1.4 million copies and pioneered the study of women's lives, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. SAVAGE BEAUTY is her long-awaited portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as audacious in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. She embodied, in her reckless fancy, the spirit of the New Woman, and gave America its voice. Milford calls her book "a family romance"-for the love between the Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. The three sisters competed for success with men, and later with their poetry. Their mother loved them with the controlling fierceness of a tyrant. 'Theirs was a story of triumph over adversity,' Milford writes, 'one of the best women's stories there is in America-hopeful, enduring, centered in family, and fraudulent.' The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Millay was dazzling in the performance of her self. Her voice was an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Young women styled themselves in her image-fairylike, taunting, free. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Millay's public affairs make for compulsive reading, but what this book reveals for the first time is her extraordinary private life. Written with the riveting intensity of an intimate drama, SAVAGE BEAUTY is the first book to explore the dark side of Millay's life, her self-destructive passion and harrow ing descent into morphine addiction. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an unimaginable treasure. Hundreds of letters flew back and forth between the three sisters and their mother-and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind the journals of Sylvia Plath. A triumphant accomplishment, a landmark in American literary history, SAVAGE BEAUTY is an iconic portrait of a woman's life." Hard Cover condition: Fine in Fine dj

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