Recent Arrivals from Asia Bookroom

Shanghai.: 上海民智書局. Shanghai People's Knowledge Book Company].. 1923.. 70pp, a book of general knowledge in two sections for teachers to use with adult students. It includes chapters on many different topics, for example, where do people come from, health, China's economy, China's national humiliation, China's urgent tasks, the air, light, electricity, water, inventions this century, and so on. Text… Read more about this item

Tokyo.: Japan Papua New Guinea Goodwill Society.. March 31,1980.. Black and white line maps, iv + 299pp. Boards and dustjacket little shelf worn, dustjacket spine faintly sunned, overall a very good copy. 26 x 19.5cm. An oft-cited work detailing the exploits of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy throughout the New Guinea Campaign. .

Shanghai.: 民智書局. [People's Education Book Company].. 1922.. 45pp, a book of educational materials for teachers to use with adult workers in a free school set up as an adjunct of Nanyang High School. Includes chapters on plants, plant parts, reproduction, bacteria, animals, animal evolution, humans, human hygiene, skeleton, skin, and so on. Original wrappers with attractive pictorial cover slightly… Read more about this item

Liaoning.: 辽宁人民出版社.. [Third Printing].. 1954.. Folding map of Taiwan Province (1954) indicating topographical features, cities and towns, primary agricultural products such as timber, fruit, rice and sugar cane, industrial outputs such as oil, cement, copper and coal, hydroelectric power stations, as well as train routes. Boat routes are shown with distances to important destinations in nautical miles. Key at bottom… Read more about this item

[Beijing].: Various publishers.. May-June1989.. A small collection of three newspapers offering some interesting examples of news coverage immediately prior to and after China's Tiananmen Square Incident, various sizes and publishers, between 19 May and 9 June 1989. Titles include 北京日报 "Beijing Daily", 中国青年报 "China Youth Daily", 人民日报 "People's Daily", generally in very good condition with occasional closed tears and… Read more about this item

Taiwan.: 禹甸圖書局. [Yudian tushuju].. 1945.. 1945 Ministry of Interior map of Taiwan published in the 34th year of the Republic of China, with inset title and key top right. Romanised Japanese names for some areas and cities written in capital letters on main map, which is surrounded by 15 small inset maps at edges, each with its own scale.… Read more about this item

東京. [Tokyo].: 松岡正識. [Matsuoka, Masashiki].. Meiji 27 [1894].. Chromolithograph sugoroku game sheet, 55 x 75cm, paper is age toned with minor wear at edges, old tape residue on reverse side and some closed tears and a few small holes at fold points repaired neatly on the reverse. This colourful sugoroku game follows the progress of the Sino-Japanese War from its… Read more about this item

Liaoning.: 新中國地圖社. [Xin Zhongguo ditu she].. First Edition.. 1954.. Folding map of Taiwan Province (1954) showing topographical features, main transport routes, cities, towns and villages. Key inset at bottom left, inset map of China's east coast and Taiwan at top left, ‘Taiwan Straits'. Previously folded into 16 panels, shows slight wear and soiling at folds, archival paper repairs on… Read more about this item

Beijing.: 人民美术出版社. People's Fine Arts Publishing House.. 1977.. Large anti-Gang of Four propaganda poster featuring a heroic young female worker in an industrial setting. Some lightly browned holes along upper edge of poster. In very good condition, colours fresh and bright. 77 x 53cm. Poster was designed by Sun Quan, 孙荃, who was assigned to the People's Fine Arts… Read more about this item

China.: 廣益書局. [Beneficial Book Company].. Reprint.. No date. (circa1930).. Three volumes only (of 6?) of selected Tang poems accompanied by notes and commentary on the text. Each volume is comprised of approximately 20 folded leaves, slightly foxed and worn paper wrappers, four hole stab binding. Overall in good condition. 20 x 13.3. Text in traditional Chinese characters. .

New York.: Harper & Brothers Publishers.. First American Edition.. 1869.. 2 folding tinted maps and 8 black and white maps, black and white wood engraved captioned illustrations with tissue guards; black and white vignettes, xii + 638pp, index, 2 pages of publisher's adverts. Map carelessly folded, original green cloth covered boards with orangutan motif stamped in gilt on the upper… Read more about this item

Albert Dewit. 1909.. Illustrated with innumerable black and white engravings, photographs and drawings and including the famous detachable plate of the linghi - (Chinese torture of slow cutting), which the author recommends that sensitive souls could remove if it offended their Western principles! viii + 308pp. Early twentieth century half calf, rubbed and corners bumped, boards in pebbled cloth. Leather… Read more about this item

California. 1981.. Striking colour poster with the lettering against the background of Nissan huts used in Japanese internment camps during WWII. 44.5 x 29.5cm. This historical poster by the National Coalition for Reparations Redress urges public participation in hearings held by the Commission on the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Two labels, one in English and one… Read more about this item

[Taiwan, Manchuria, or China Proper].. (Circa1903).. Fascinating thick octavo sized album from the library of American journalist, author and first American Consul-General to Taiwan. Filled with clippings from various publications, many annotated. Large colour folding map of East Asia and two small black and white maps of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the railways of Asia at front, one black… Read more about this item

東京. [Tokyo].: 大日本雄辯會講談社. [Dai Nihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha].. Showa 15 [1940].. Colour folding maps printed back to back on a single sheet, 54 x 39cm. On one side there is a Map of Asia and the South Seas: scale 1:26000000, inset chart and on the reverse a Map of Europe: scale 1:1500000, also with an inset map showing the region… Read more about this item

東京. [Tokyo].: 東京朝日新聞. [Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun].. Meiji 42 [1909].. Complete Hyakunin Issu set presented on two large, folded sheets. One sheet has brightly coloured printed illustrations (taking cards) and the second is a black and white printed sheet of text (reading cards), 53.5 x 77.5 cm. A few neatly repaired small chips or small closed tears at margins but very… Read more about this item

London.: Ernest Benn.. First Edition.. Number 467 of a limited edition of 1500 copies.1923.. 152 colour and black and white plates, mainly full page, xx + 20 page introduction + plates and descriptive text on leaf guard opposite. grey cloth covered boards, some discolouration to the upper board's lower edge, endpapers marked, and preliminary leaves lightly foxed internally very good.… Read more about this item

No publication details.. (circa1920?).. Esoteric Chinese riddle guessing game with depictions of fabled animals and well known personages from the Chinese classics. Colour woodblock in red and green. Evenly browned, washi repairs on reverse to some minor wear around edges. In very good condition, images are clear and colours bright, 39.6 x 54.4 cm. The main character in the… Read more about this item

Japan: 辻岡屋亀吉. [Tsujiokaya Kamekichi].. Circa [1880].. Colour folding woodblock sugoroku game sheet, 48.5 x 70cm. Worn along folds and edges, small holes at a few folds, soiled with a little ink marking in two panels along the lower edge. Scarce we have not been able to locate any institutional holdings of this sugoroku. This Meiji era sugoroku game sheet, published… Read more about this item

東京. [Tokyo].: 大日本雄弁会講談社. [Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha].. Taisho 16 [1927].. Colour sugoroku game sheet, black and white sugoroku game sheet on reverse, 53 x 79 cm. Browning particularly to one panel on the reverse not visible on the other side of the sheet otherwise very good. This double-sided sugoroku game sheet was published as a supplement for the 1927 New Year's… Read more about this item