Flag, The Germs, Minutemen, Husker Du, Misfits, and other bands which he also produced, as well as everyday punks, fans, cops, clubs and rehearsal spaces. Quarto. Original illustrated boards, lettering to covers in white. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated throughout with full-page photographs. A fine copy. £750 [157996] 250 TAKAGI, Teijiro. In and Out of Kobe. Kobe: Tamamura, Photographer, 1907 First edition of this scarce photobook, with a single copy recorded on WorldCat and copies likewise seldom encountered in commerce. The high-quality captioned photographs show views of old commercial streets including Motomachi and the Kobe Bund, as well as waterfalls, Shinto shrines, the Moon Temple, the bustling theatre quarter, the city’s large Buddhist idol erected in 1892, and the picturesque Himeji Castle. Landscape octavo. Original gold thread musubi toji binding, illustrated boards, front cover lettered in silver, black silk at spine ends. With 20 tissue-guarded hand-coloured collotypes after photographs by the author, folding advertising leaf at rear. Boards faded and rubbed at extremities, illustrations bright, pages slightly crinkled, faint tidemarks on couple of leaves slightly affecting images. A very good copy with the original binding pleasingly intact. ¶ Institutional copy: Museum Rietberg, Switzerland. £850 [157624] 251 TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1911 First trade edition of the core text of what is popularly known as “Taylorism” – the management of workers on an entirely rationalized, scientific basis. Though long criticized as dehumanizing human resources – “his methods were anathema to trade unionists almost everywhere” ( PMM ) – many of the principles have now become core components of modern management. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, publisher’s device to front cover in blind. Spine a little sunned, extremities with slight bumping and rubbing, scattered light foxing. A very good copy. ¶ Crainer, The Ultimate Business Library , p. 275ff; Downs, Books that changed America , 17; Norman 2059; Printing and the Mind of Man 403. £450 [158369]
246 SILK. Sample of Products of May Hun Yue Silk Filature, Chinese Merchant. Nanxun: May Hun Yue, 1923 An uncommon trade catalogue issued by one of China’s leading silk mills in the early 20th century, advertising its Blue Dragon, Flying Horse, and other famous high-grade weaves. A leading representative of Republican China’s manufacturing boom, the filature won a gold medal at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition and expanded overseas into a New York office in 1927. We have traced one other copy in commerce in recent years. Octavo. Original blue silk over paper wrappers secured with red silk cord, front cover lettered in gilt, covers lined with black moiré-patterned card. Half-tone illustrations throughout. Light soiling and paste-action browning to covers, offsetting to first and last page, internally fresh with just a little toning. A near-fine example. £500 [157748] 247 SPARK, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1961 First edition of the author’s most famous novel. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in in gilt. With dust jacket. A fine copy in a lovely, fresh example of the jacket. £600 [156910]
248 SPENSER, Edmund. Epithalamion and Amoretti. London: John and E. Bumpus, Ltd, 1903 First edition thus, number 198 of 250 copies finely printed by Bumpus of Spenser’s poems of love and marriage, attractively illustrated with etchings. This fine press edition in the publisher’s deluxe binding is quite scarce. There were also copies bound in cloth and vellum, and an additional 14 copies printed on vellum which were intended for exquisite jewelled bindings, and sell for great sums. Octavo in half-sheets (211 × 135 mm). Publisher’s deluxe binding in green crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt, Tudor rose motifs in gilt to compartments, boards panelled in double gilt fillets, Tudor rose motifs to corner in gilt, ruling and rose motifs repeated in gilt to turn-ins, all edges gilt. Etched portrait frontispiece by C. Bird, vignette to title page and four more in the text as head and tail pieces on india paper. Tiny split to head of front joint, still firm, endpapers slightly spotted, contents otherwise clean and fresh. A very attractive copy, finely bound. £600 [145497] 249 SPOT. Sounds of Two Eyes Opening. Southern California Life: Skate/Beach/Punk 1969–1982. New York & Los Angeles: Sinecure, 2014 First edition. Spot is the pseudonym of Glenn Lockett, a musician, producer, and sound engineer who documented southern California beach life, skating culture, and the burgeoning punk scene. He took candid shots of Black
CHRISTMAS 2022 GIFT SELECTION AT PETER HARRINGTON
96
Made with FlippingBook Online newsletter maker