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[India & Burma 1945]. Black faux pebbled leather album, 21 x 13.5 cm., contains 17 b. w. original photographs, loosely inserted in the album, all photos clean, without issues. *ORIGINAL WORLD WAR 2 CHINA.BURMA.INDIA THEATRE OF WAR ITEM* . *** **** *** . . WORLD WAR 2 ORIGINAL PHOTO ALBUM OF PEOPLE & PLACES IN . . . ASSAM, INDIA & MANDALAY BURMA . . . TAKEN BY A MEMBER FO THE 48TH AIR DEPOT GROUP . * First located at Mooklbari, India (1944), 48th Assam Air Depot member took these photos. While his name is absent, this was part of two items which came from the same person and amateur photographer. . *** A.A.C. [ARMY AIR CORPS.]: . The Lineage of the Group: . The 48th Air Depot Group, Depot Repair Squadron, Depot Suppl Squadron authorized and constituted at Duncan Field, Texas per AG 320.2, 31 January, 1942; activated 13 March, 1942; Stationed at Duncan Field (combined with Kelly Field, 2 March, 1943), 13 March, 1942-15 June, 1943. . On 1 March,1945 the Assam Air Depot was designated as a…
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[Photo Album Taken In 1945 In Assam & Burma. [C.B.I. (CHINA.BURMA.INDIA.) THEATR
by [U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS., 48th Assam Air Depot Member.]
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POST REPORT: KOREA EMBASSY USOM-USIS.
by U.S. EMBASSY, SEOUL, KOREA.
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[Seoul] 1966, USOM-USIS. Color boards, many color & b.w. photos, indexed-tabs, a guide for American diplomatic corps. stationd in Korea. This work was prepared under the guidance of Ambassador W.G. Brown has tab index guides: Part I: Orientation. Part II: Life at Post. Part III: Country Regulations & Post Admin. Part IV: Special Guidance. With many maps, some folding, drawings & graphics. A useful guide to the peoplel, customs, traditions of the Koreans. "This official post report prep- ared at the post. Any other information you recieve cover- ing the facts as set forth is to regarded as unofficial in- formation." .
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A LETTER TO ELISE GRILLI: Broadside Color Painted & Written in Japanese
by UBUGATA, Tatsue. [Elise Grilli]
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[Japan ca. 1940's].Single sheet brushed letter, 42 x 31 cm., very good, 4 folds, addressed to "Grilli-san," a bit dusty, else verso clean, solid,unusual item, written on Washi hand- made mulberry paper,color painted with flowers and in Kanji. . *** **** *** . . . A LOVELY CALLIGRAPHED LETTER FROM UBUGATA TO ELISE GRILLI . . . WITH COLOR FLOWERS & FLORAL BACKGROUND . . * A letter written in old-fashioned Japanese Oshuji [calligraphy] with color painted red & yellow flowers as a background design on Washi paper. . Written in "running grass" style the letter consists of 13 lines of text. . * Elise Grilli was a Japanese art critic, author on Japanese arts and Japanese woodblock prints. . She and her husband Marcel were longtime Tokyo residents. Marcel wrote a column on music for The Japan Times. Elise was an art critic for the newspaper, she produced books of outstanding merit on the Japanese art scene. They came to Tokyo in the late 1940. . *** CONDITION: The letter is…
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KOCHI SHIRYAKU: A RECORD OF THE EARTH, GEOGRAPHY & ASTRONOMY
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[Tokyo ? 1870, Tsuji Shikaku. Blue stiff stitched wrs.,vol.1 of 8 vol. set, complete monograph, cover title label & edge wear, contents clean and solid, a bit of old worming else a solid copy, 20 maps, 18 x 26 cm., 70p. This title was originally endorsed and sponsored by the Japanese government and issued to University of Tokyo students to study geography. Each volume of the series was a different subject and geographic area of study. * The current volume covers Japan, with folding appendage map of Japan. Also covers the world in general, shows the movements of the sun, moon and earth; the two hemispheres, Illustrated with several maps and globes. Shows the Americas and Europe. Universe astronomy, volcano, geography of the earth. * Contains 20 b.w. maps & illustrations. * REFERENCES: Not in: Toda, Brown, Sorimachi, Edgren, Dawes, N.D.L. * .
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DESERT EXILE: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family.
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Seattle [1982], Univ. Seattle. Brown boards, very good, dj., 154p., b.w. photos. The true story of how one family who lived through these sad years coped.A moving personal account by a woman who grew up in Berkeley, and was attending the Univ. of California when the war began. Her father's abrupt seizure by the FBI, of the family's frantic efforts to vacate their home on 10 days notice, of being forced to live in a horse stall, then being sent to a bleak relocation camp in the Utah desert. .
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NIKKO SANSHI: PICTORIAL DESCRIPTION OF NIKKO, MOUNTAINS, FESTIVALS, ARCHITECTURE
by UEDA, Moshin. ed. [WATANABE Kazan, artist]
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Edo 1837, Shozando. Blue stitched stiff wrs., very good, 5 vol. set, 82 double-page + 5 full-page woodcut plates,in bit worn brown coth Chitsu, contents exceptionally clean, very bright & solid copy, 18.2 x 25.3 cm. RARE FIRST EDITION . *** **** . . . A STUNNING EDO PERIOD GUIDE TO NIKKO MOUNTAINS . . . DESCRIPTION TO NIKKO, FESTIVITIES, ARCHITECTURE . . . HISTORY AND THE SHRINE TO THE SHOGUNS . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR AND & BLACK & WHITE . * THE AUTHOR: UEDA Mooshin [c.1776-1830]: UEDA was a celebrated author of the Edo period, he flourised during the 1820's. . *** THE ARTIST: WATANABE Kazan [1793-1841]. Kazan was an eminent celebrated artist, he was the most famous student of the most famous artist of the time, TANI Buncho, who taught him techniques of Chinese painting style. . Kazan was the son of a Samurai, he served Lord Miyake of the Tawara clan. Due to his support of the opening Japan to the West, the Bakufu took offense and he was arrested, condemned to death, due to…
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THE NETSUKE HANDBOOK OF UEDA REIKICHI. Adapted from the Japanese by Raymond Bush
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Rutland [1961], Tuttle. Buff cloth, 226 color & b.w. photos 325p., index, dj., very clean, solid. FIRST EDITION RAYMOND BUSHELL'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY This is an important reference source for any collector of Japanese Netsuke, compiled under the watchful eye of Bushell and organized for easy use. Addressing Netsuke as related to the history of sculpture. * Netsuke & its types, origin and development of Netsuke, Netsuke with secondary functions, Netsuke & the tobacco pouch, Netsuke materials: wood, ivory, horn, metal, porcelain, lacquer & other materials. * Netsuke subjects & designs. The Netsuke artists. Regional characteristics of Netsuke: Kansai, Edo, Chukyo & other districts. With an appreciation of Netsuke, its decline, export of, observations on all periods: Early, Middle & Late. * Literature on Netsuke & Netsuke collections. Reminiscences of Netsuke carvers: a visit to Koun Takamura &c. A valuable and most reliable study. * .
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NIHON RAITAI BIJITSU ZEN: COMPLETE COLLECTION OF JAPANESE NUDES IN ART. Covers W
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Tokyo 1931, Takami Zaioku Han Sha. Vol.4 from the series, brown cloth, 82 color & b.w. fold-out plates, Japanese text, no pagination, 4 cm. thick, 22 x 31 cm., very good, solid copy. FIRST & ONLY EDITION A very useful reference, covering some 400 years of the nude female as she appeared in various Japanese art forms: ie as in Japanese wood block prints, paintings and drawings. * Each picture is preceded by a numbered description sheet, giving artist, title, date, subject, type of medium and any other details of importance. * A highly useful resource. Each volume complete in itself, monographic. This work covers those Japanese woodblock prints which show nude or semi-nude women, those with their breasts exposed. A collection of 18-19th century Ukiyo-e prints, some are triptychs, diptychs, or single prints, all follow the single theme of the nude in the print. Examples are shown from all varieties artists, including Utamaro, Kunichika, Yoshitoshi, Toyoharu, Yoshitora, Kiyochika, Kunisada,…
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BUND, NAGASAKI. NO. 14.
by [UENO, Hikoma.]
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[Japan ca. 1880]. A hand-colored albumen photograph, 25.5 x 20 cm., title caption & light #14 in lower right corner, board mounted, another photo on the verso [back side], solid example. * * RARE ORIGINAL ITEM * * . *** **** *** . . A STUNNING & EARLY COLOR VIEW OF THE NAGASAKI BUND . . * WHO WAS THE PHOTOGRAPHER, UENO HIKOMA [1838-1904] was a Nagasaki photographer. . * Ueno Hikoma was a pioneer Japanese photographer, born in Nagasaki. He is noted for his fine portraits, often of important Japanese and foreign figures, and for his excellent landscapes, particularly of Nagasaki and its surroundings. Ueno was a major figure in nineteenth-century Japanese photography as a commercially and artistically successful photographer and as an instructor. . *** THE IMAGES: . BUND NAGASAKI NO.14: The Nagasaki image is very clear, with pastel hand-tinted coloring, no bright reds, subdued, with a view from the water of the Bund. This also shows large two-storied buildings, two have very tall flag poles, one…
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YACHI GUSA: MANY KINDS OF FLOWERS AND GRASSES. [Actually A Book of Kimono Design
by [UENO, Kiyoe.]
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[Kyoto 1901, Honda]. Stiff stitched wrs., volumes 3, 4 of 4, cover edges rubbed, contents solid, 58 color woodcuts of Kimono designs, tissue guards [some folded],29 double folded leaves, some page edges split, else clean, solid copy. A lovely set and find color printed examples of various designs on Kimonos using flowers and grass as the main theme. * PART OF A SET ONLY, SOLD "AS IS." * .
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HOTEI JAPANESE PRINTS 2.
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Leiden [1983], Uhlenbeck. Black pictorial wrappers, very good, [16]p., 44 b.w. photos, prices in Guilders & U.S.$, 39 well-described items, all illustrated. A useful reference. Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi, Hanzan, Hiroshige, Hokkei &c., depic- ting people & places, erotica &c... .
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THE ROMANCE OF TEA: An Outline History of Tea & Tea-DrinkingThrough Sixteen Hund
by UKERS, William H.
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New York 1936, Knopf. Red buckram over boards, 14+276+12p., index, 48 b.w. photos, 11 figures, 2 maps, clean ex-library copy, rebound, solid, clean, top edge rubber-stamped, few other marks, as is, complete. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. R A R E A valuable study, with a salute to tea. Covering the histor- ical: Genesis of tea, tea's conquest of the orient, tea com- es to Europe and America, Ships of azure. Technical: how tea grows and how its manufactured, commerce of tea, tea manners and customs. Social: tea and the fine arts. Ukers was a fam- ous author on both coffee and tea. His works are reliable highly respected for accuracy and content. ALWAYS R A R E ! .
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UKIYO-E ART. Individual Journal Numbers.
by JAPAN UKIYO-E SOCIETY.
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Tokyo 1964.J.U.S. No. 7. Stiff wrs., very good, 26p., with a rticle by Suzuki Juzo:AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF UTAMARO'S ILLU- STRATED BOOKS, 37 b.w. photos, Japanese text. This journal was under the directorship of Muneshige Nara- zaki, edited by Shigeo Miyao, international editoral staff were J. Hillier, R. Paine, H. Stern, T. Volker, Dr. S. Taka- hashi president, C. Mitchell international editorial secret- ary et al. With fine and scholarly articles by leading expo- nents on all aspects of Ukiyo-e prints & E-hon [illustrated books] of the Edo & other periods. A useful reference tool for any collector or student. Good adverts are also part of this journal giving a variety of dealers & publishers. Also has news, book reviews, timely articles and controversial subjects addressed. .
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AMERICANS ON EVEREST: The Official Account of the Ascent Led by Norman G. Dyhren
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Philadelphia [1964], Lippincott. Blue cloth, 429p., glossary 2 appendices, 7 color, 67 b. w. photos, 16 x 24 cm., sharp copy, exceptionally & unusually bright & clean, sharp dj in mylar. AUTHOR'S SIGNED,DATED PRESENTATION COPY.FIRST EDITION For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. After weeks of exposure in the bitter cold & thin air, & after losing a member under falling ice, success came by the South Col route. Three weeks later, four more men reached the peak: two by the West Ridge, & another two via the South Col. President Kennedy presented this team with the National Geographical Society's Hubbard Medal. With a Who's Who of American climbing. * With a list & photos of each of the AMEE members & biographies. Allen C. Auten; Barry C. Bishop; John E. Breitenbach; James Barryl Coprbet; David L. Dingman; Daniel E. Doody; Norman G. Dyhrenfurth [leader]; Richard M. Emerson; Dr. Thomas F. Hornbein, Luther G. Jerstad; James T.…
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Philadelphia [1964], Lippincott.Blue cloth, very clean,429p. glossary, 2 appendices, 7 color, 67 b.w. photos, 16 x 24 cm. tight copy, dj. in mylar. ** SIGNED BY JAMES W. WHITTACRE ** who was an expedition member. A TRUE FIRST EDITION For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. After weeks of exposure in the bitter cold & thin air, & after losing a member under falling ice, success came by the South Col route. Three weeks later, four more men reached the peak: two by the West Ridge, & another two via the South Col. President Kennedy presented this team with the National Geographical Society's Hubbard Medal. With a Who's Who of American climbing. * With a list & photos of each of the AMEE members & biographies. Allen C. Auten; Barry C. Bishop; John E. Breitenbach; James Barryl Coprbet; David L. Dingman; Daniel E. Doody; Norman G. Dyhrenfurth [leader]; Richard M. Emerson; Dr. Thomas F. Hornbein, Luther G. Jerstad; James T. Lester Jr.; Maynard M.…
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Philadelphia [1964], Lippincott. Blue cloth, very good, 429p glossary, 2 appendices, 7 color, 67 b.w. photos, 16 x 24 cm. bright clean copy, dust jacket. TRUE FIRST EDITION NOT A BOOK CLUB EDITION. For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. After weeks of exposure in the bitter cold & thin air, & after losing a member under falling ice, success came by the South Col route. Three weeks later, four more men reached the peak: two by the West Ridge, & another two via the South Col. President Kennedy presented this team with the National Geographical Society's Hubbard Medal. With a Who's Who of American climbing. * With a list & photos of each of the AMEE members & biographies. Allen C. Auten; Barry C. Bishop; John E. Breitenbach; James Barryl Coprbet; David L. Dingman; Daniel E. Doody; Norman G. Dyhrenfurth [leader]; Richard M. Emerson; Dr. Thomas F. Hornbein, Luther G. Jerstad; James T. Lester Jr.; Maynard M. Miller; Richard Pownall; Barry W.…
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Philadelphia [1964], Lippincott. Blue cloth, very good, 429p glossary, 2 appendices, 7 color, 67 b.w. photos, 16 x 24 cm. bright clean copy, no dj. TRUE FIRST EDITION NOT A BOOK CLUB EDITION. For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. After weeks of exposure in the bitter cold & thin air, & after losing a member under falling ice, success came by the South Col route. Three weeks later, four more men reached the peak: two by the West Ridge, & another two via the South Col. President Kennedy presented this team with the National Geographical Society's Hubbard Medal. With a Who's Who of American climbing. * With a list & photos of each of the AMEE members & biographies. Allen C. Auten; Barry C. Bishop; John E. Breitenbach; James Barryl Coprbet; David L. Dingman; Daniel E. Doody; Norman G. Dyhrenfurth [leader]; Richard M. Emerson; Dr. Thomas F. Hornbein, Luther G. Jerstad; James T. Lester Jr.; Maynard M. Miller; Richard Pownall; Barry W. Prather;…
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Philadelphia [1964], Lippincott. Blue cloth, very good, 429p glossary, 2 appendices, 7 color, 67 b.w. photos, 16 x 24 cm. bright copy, dust jacket, SIGNED BY 3 CLIMBING TEAM MEMBERS: T. Horbein, W. Siri, R. Emerson. TRUE FIRST EDITION R A R E For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. After weeks of exposure in the bitter cold & thin air, & after losing a member under falling ice, success came by the South Col route. Three weeks later, four more men reached the peak: two by the West Ridge, & another two via the South Col. President Kennedy presented this team with the National Geographical Society's Hubbard Medal. With a Who's Who of American climbing. * With a list & photos of each of the AMEE members & biographies. Allen C. Auten; Barry C. Bishop; John E. Breitenbach; James Barryl Coprbet; David L. Dingman; Daniel E. Doody; Norman G. Dyhrenfurth [leader]; Richard M. Emerson; Dr. Thomas F. Hornbein, Luther G. Jerstad; James T. Lester Jr.;…
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Philadelphia [1964], Lippincott. Blue cloth, very good, 429p glossary, 2 appendices, 7 color, 67 b. w. photos, dj., 16 x 24 cm. For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. After weeks of exposure in the bitter cold & thin air, & after losing a member under falling ice, success came by the South Col route. Three weeks later, four more men reached the peak: two by the West Ridge, & another two via the South Col. President Kennedy presented this team with the National Geographical Society's Hubbard Medal. With a Who's Who of American climbing. * With a list & photos of each of the AMEE members & biographies. Allen C. Auten; Barry C. Bishop; John E. Breitenbach; James Barryl Coprbet; David L. Dingman; Daniel E. Doody; Norman G. Dyhrenfurth [leader]; Richard M. Emerson; Dr. Thomas F. Hornbein, Luther G. Jerstad; James T. Lester Jr.; Maynard M. Miller; Richard Pownall; Barry W. Prather; Gilbert Roberts; James Owen M. Roberts; William E. Siri; James…
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Philadelphia [1964], Lippincott. Blue cloth, very good, 429p glossary, 2 app., 7 color, 67 b.w. photos, 16 x 24 cm., dj., bright copy, SIGNED BY FOUR EXPEDITION MEMBERS, 3 SUMMITERS: Emerson, Prather, Whittaker; & Hornbein. TRUE FIRST EDITION For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. After weeks of exposure in the bitter cold & thin air, & after losing a member under falling ice, success came by the South Col route. Three weeks later, four more men reached the peak: two by the West Ridge, & another two via the South Col. President Kennedy presented this team with the National Geographical Society's Hubbard Medal. With a Who's Who of American climbing. * With a list & photos of each of the AMEE members & biographies. Allen C. Auten; Barry C. Bishop; John E. Breitenbach; James Barryl Coprbet; David L. Dingman; Daniel E. Doody; Norman G. Dyhrenfurth [leader]; Richard M. Emerson; Dr. Thomas F. Hornbein, Luther G. Jerstad; James T. Lester Jr.;…
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