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112 NETTLES, Bea. Mountain Dream Tarot. Rochester, New York: Inky Press Productions, distributed by Light Impressions Corporation, 1975 a key tarot innovation First edition of the first known photographic tarot deck, this set signed by Nettles and dated 1977 on the title card, with the often missing introductory leaflet and loosely inserted note of Nettles’s other works. The set is in notably bright condition. Nettles used a labour-intensive process to produce the deck which involved blending negative over negative in print and re-photographing original hand-coloured prints for publishing. The original hand-stitched gelatin silverprints for the cards were gifted to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In total, 800 decks were produced.
110 MORRISON, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970 First edition, first printing, of Morrison’s highly influential debut novel. Its lasting importance was recognized in 1933 when Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. A near-fine, sharp copy, minor bumps to spine ends, contents clean; in the very good dust jacket, not price clipped, spine ends a little creased with a few short closed tears, vertical fold along front flap, but still an excellent and remarkably bright example. £3,500 [157337] 111 MULAN. Pictured [ sic ] Story of Mu Lan. [Fuzhou: Ling Yu Sing Gift Shop: c.1906] china’s most famous female warrior A beautifully illustrated bilingual retelling of the folk song The Ballad of Mulan . Over centuries, the story has “provided a vision of womanhood that extended women’s roles beyond the domestic sphere” (Lee, Stefanowska, & Wiles, p. 324). In the 20th century, Mulan was promoted as a hero by early Chinese feminists inspired by her challenge to the traditional exclusion of women from public politics. Octavo, concertina-style (205 × 141 mm), pp. [21]. Original pattern- woven brown silk boards, front cover with manuscript title label, top and bottom edges orange. With 10 colour paintings on silk, mounted within pattern-woven cream silk borders. Extremities lightly worn, binding sound, small closed tear to p. [4] verso sometime repaired with adhesive tape, illustrations bright. A near-fine example. ¶ Lily Xiao Hong Lee, A.D. Stefanowska, & Sue Wiles, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. – 618 C.E , 2015. £1,750 [146363]
Storks (1811–1874) was in charge of the British establishments in Turkey, from the Bosphorus to Smyrna, and received the rank of major-general. He superintended the final British withdrawal from Turkey at the end of the war. Nightingale inscribed this copy on the ten year anniversary of the Battle of Inkerman, a major British victory. Storks was a key ally for Nightingale’s nursing reforms in the Crimea, which she often felt were hampered by the British military authorities, and she deemed him the only official who supported her. She wrote on 6 March 1856, “I have therefore fought my own battles . . . I can truly say unsupported by any official out here, with the exception of Genl. Storks” (in Goldie, p. 225). In May 1856 Nightingale was so exhausted by illness and overwork that she thought she was dying, and wrote to Storks with her last requests: “As you are . . . the officer who has given the most steady and constant support to the work entrusted to me by her Majesty’s Government, I venture to appeal to you to continue that support after my death, and to carry out as far as possible my last requests” (ibid., p. 265). Nightingale recovered, and in 1857 had Storks appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the sanitary condition of the army. For many years after the pair continued to correspond on the welfare of the soldiers. Nightingale’s Notes on Hospitals was first published in 1858, and the second edition in 1859; this third edition was completely revised and substantially expanded, and as Nightingale says in her preface, “it is in reality a new book”. Quarto. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers decorated in blind, brown endpapers. Housed in custom red cloth solander box. With 13 folding plates (including map of London and of Paris) and 3 folding tables. Wear at extremities with loss at head of spine (not affecting lettering), splitting to front joint, inner hinges a little tender with slight splits, contents clean, plan of Paris with small chip to outer edge affecting border without loss to image. A good, unrepaired copy. ¶ Bishop & Goldie 101. Sue Goldie, ed., Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea , 1997. £17,500 [161784]
78 monochromatic cards (120 × 100 mm). Housed in the original card box (130 × 110 × 30 mm). Very light occasional rubbing to card edges, a near-fine set in the box with minor rubbing to edges. £1,500 [145673] 113 NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on Hospitals. Third edition. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863 inscribed to her only supporter in the british military establishment Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Major General Sir Henry Storks &c &c offered by one who has had the honour to serve under his command. F.N. 5/11/64 (Inkermann [ sic ] Day)”. During the Crimean War, Henry Knight
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