BACKBONE Issue #1, 2021 The Uncelebrated Stories of Asian American Mothers & Daughters

Pary Chuong, Editor. Published by the Backbone Project, [Oakland, CA], 2021, first edition, first issue. Illustrated wraps, staple bound, 8.5" x 5.5", 63 pages, illustrated throughout with color drawings, collages, and photographs. NEAR FINE Condition: slight front edge creep (front page edges not flush) otherwise, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Uncommon, none in OCLC collections worldwide.

"Backbone was inspired by a vision that calls on recognizing the complexities in the relationship between mothers and daughters, from 1st generation to 6th generation Asian American women. This zine shines light on the importance of speaking our truth by honoring our mothers to heal and move forward with love, forgiveness and compassion. With that vision, we sparked a collective of women who come from all walks of life. The uniquely written pieces, enchanting photographs and amazingly crafted artwork that are showcased in this zine, invite us to explore and to be curious about the diverse relationships we have with our care-takers, whether it be our mothers or grandmothers or sisters or friends." Pary Chuong

A vintage, publicly distributed copy of a letter / petition dated June 9, 1950, addressed to the Occupying Allied Forces, requesting that, in accordance with the Potsdam Declaration, the Allied Occupational Forces stop purging Japanese Communists from the Central Committee. The first part of the letter reads:

***************************** PETITION

June 9, 1950

To: Lt. Gen. K.N. Derevyanko, Member of the Allied Council for Japan, for the USSR.

From: Karoku Hosokawa, Chief, Communist Members of the Diet,

Dear Lt. Gen, Derevyanikos

To the Allied Council for Japan, which is set up to advise the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in accordance with the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration that "The Japanese Government shall remove all obstacles to the revival and strengthening of Democratic tendencies among the Japanese people," we request that the Council pay profound attention to the purge of the Central Committee members of the Japanese Communist Party, which was conducted by the Japanese Government in accordance with the letter of the Supreme Commander to Fremier Yoshida.

The same letter orders the removal from public posts of all the members of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, charging that they have sought... ***************************** Two page printed typescript letter / petition, printed on onionskin paper, 8x11 inches (20x28 cm), single corner staple.

GOOD condition, folded horizontally, lightly age toned, additional staple holes around the current staple.

An unusual and historic item related to Japanese communists in occupied Japan.

Two scarce 1945 original pamphlets encouraging Japanese Nisei, recently released from West Coast Internment Camps, to relocate to Philadelphia:

WANTED, A Friendly Community For Family Resettlement, Found The City For Family Relocation, Philadelphia / Philadelphia .. Why? We The Relocatees Speak To You In Our Own Words Because We Are Sincerely Interested In You ... Published by the Philadelphia District Office of the War Relocation Authority, Philadelphia, PA. 1945 first edition. Illustrated by Masao Yabuki. Illustrated wraps, 10.5" x 8", 13 numbered pages, mimeographed sheets, staple bound. Contributions from Japanese Internees relating their experiences and from which Internment Camp they were imprisoned and released. VERY GOOD Condition: some age toning and light wear to the covers, spine fold split at the ends, staples are oxidized and no longer holding inner pages, internally light signs of age and use, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, none found in OCLC collections worldwide.

Philadelphia 1945 Young Penn Meets Nisei.Plant'g Friendship Hiroshi Uyehara, Editor. Published under the auspices of the Philadelphia Nisei Council and the International Institute, Philadelphia, PA. 1945 first edition. Cover illustration by Masao Yabuki. Illustrated wraps, 8.5" x 5.5", 24 pages including covers, mimeographed sheets, staple bound, map frontispiece, b&w drawings throughout, last 4 pages in Japanese. From the introduction: "If Philadelphia be your choice, this booklet that we have compiled out of our actual experiences and up-to-date facts may be of help in introducing you to the 'ins and outs' of this city that we have come to love and has become home to us." VERY GOOD Condition: staples oxidized and light signs of age otherwise thighs, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, only one copy found in OCLC collections worldwide at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia Nisei Council was a grassroots organization established in May 1945 to support and encourage Japanese Americans to resettle in the Philadelphia area after leaving West Coast Internment Camps. The internees homes and property were seized by the US government and the only possessions they had on release were carried in suitcases. They had to make new lives for themselves and their families and many did not want to go back to where they were before the war. The Council acted as a vital relocation social network, publishing and distributing informational pamphlets offering advice on finding employment, local housing, hostels, schools, food, fun and general help navigating the post war Philadelphia community. Philadelphia earned its moniker the "City of Brotherly Love" at key moments in national history, the establishment of a community for recently imprisoned Japanese Americans during World War II was one such moment. After the Pearl Harbor attacks, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to prison camps inland. This violated Japanese Americans' right to due process, stripped many families of wealth, and caused generational hardship. After the east coast was opened to resettlement in January 1944, the Philadelphia War Relocation program helped find new homes and employment for thousands of Japanese American evacuees who had nothing to return home to on the West Coast.

TEMPLE HILL CUT-OUTS, Chefoo China

Made by the Self-help Dept., Women's Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, Chefoo China, [nd] circa 1930.

Handmade album with textured illustrated cloth softcovers, 10.5" x 8.5", 19 pages (on double leaves) with 84 cut-out red paper silhouettes of various sizes adhered to the pages. With a small printed leaf of explanatory text laid-in. NEAR FINE Condition: complete as issued, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. These souvenir books were available to visitors of the Mission in Chefoo, China.

"The cut-outs of Temple Hill are an adaptation of figures of animals, plants, insects, dragons, etc., cut by the women of Shantung for unknown generations." The cut-out were made to adorn various types of cards from Christmas to note cards to help fund the mission.

BARTENDER'S GUIDE TO THE BEST MIXED DRINKS, by "Kappa".

TOKYO, JAPAN: Kasuga Boeki K.K., Revised Edition, undated but circa mid 1950s.

100s of cocktails described in both Japanese and English. Likely published for Japanese bartenders serving American soldiers and tourists, and vice versa.

Small format hardcover book, orange cloth covered boards, 4.5x6 inches. Pagination: [2], 6, [4], 143, 7; plus blank endpapers. English index at the front and Japanese index at the back.

This copy was perhaps owned by a Japanese bartender who took the time to study the book and make it more accessible and understandable to the Japanese mixologist. There are relevant informational notes handwritten in Japanese in pencil on the title page and here and there throughout. The Japanese note on the title page roughly translates as: "The main text of this book is based on THE DINERS' CLUB DRINK BOOK. Of the 223 entries in the book, 159 are from the aforementioned book, and only 64 are original, mostly rarely seen, and are marked with..."

In VERY GOOD condition, there are some Japanese notes, as mentioned above, otherwise the book is solid, bright, and clean. A nice copy, made much more interesting with the handwritten notes, imho.

CHAN RADER ASSOCIATES 1961-1975

Published by Chan Radar Associates, San Francisco, California, June 1975. First edition. White card wrappers with raised title on the front cover, 11" x 8.5", 64 pages. A record of their work, filled with architectural drawings, plans and black and white photographs of their projects. VERY GOOD CONDITION: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, only 3 copies in OCLC collections worldwide.

In 1961, Lun Chan and his colleague Morton Rader, founded Chan/Rader and Associates in San Francisco. In addition to large-scale projects, they designed many Chinese restaurants which were influenced by Lun Chan. They designed the famous Mandarin Restaurant in Ghirardelli Square (1968) and Beverly Hills (1975), and many Polynesian themed Trader Vic's Restaurants and Señor Pico Restaurants in the 1960s and 1970s. The first Trader Vic's Restaurant Chan designed was their headquarters in Emeryville, the Tiki design was originated by Hollywood set designers but expressed in built form by Chinese American architects like Chan who integrated Tiki culture into architectural practice and shaped Tiki style restaurants creating an era defining kitschy alternative to mainstream Modernism.

Pioneering Chinese American architect Lun Chan (1927-2011) was born in San Francisco to a traveling herbalist, he studied architecture at UC Berkeley and joined with Morton Rader (1926-1978) to open their private practice in 1961. At the time, Chan could not open his own architecture firm and had to partner with a white architect. They took on projects ranging from campuses, healthcare facilities, restaurants, and residences. After Rader's death in 1978, the firm became Lun Chan Associates

Chinese American Artist John Way was a pioneer of mid twentieth century Chinese Abstraction. This is a scarce exhibition catalogue from early in Way's career where he found the essence of his style at the crossroads of east and west. There are no examples of this publication in OCLC collections worldwide.

JOHN WAY

Published by Joan Peterson Gallery, Boston to accompany Way's solo exhibition. Printed by The Juvenile Press, Taipei, Taiwan, 1967. First and only printing. Softcover, Chinese stab binding, bound with white silk string, 10.25" x 6", 9 folded leaves of thin paper printed on one side only, front cover is an original lithograph on textured Chinese calligraphy paper. Text includes artist statement, previous exhibitions, and reproduced reviews from various publications. Only the cover is illustrated. GOOD CONDITION: complete as issued. There is a shoreline stain in the upper corner affecting all the pages except the front cover, and light edge and corner wear, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

"I am searching / for an art form / which shows / the feeling of / powerfulness and subtlety, / the infusion of controlled /and uncontrolled images, / and / the sensations of / order and disorder, / perfection from imperfection." -- John Way 1967.

John Way [Wei Letang] (Chinese/American, 1921-2012) Born in Shanghai, Wei started his artistic studies under the great calligrapher Li Jian (1881-1956). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1956 and studied architecture at M.I.T., he worked in the Boston area until moving to San Francisco in the 1990s. Inspired by both traditional Chinese calligraphy and Abstract Expressionist painting, his work evokes the large gestural work of Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. His artworks are widely exhibited, including a solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum.

The Joan Peterson Gallery was an art gallery in Boston. Peterson was one of the most prominent art dealers in Boston from the late 1950s into the early 1980s. Her gallery showed the work of leading regional modernists. It closed in 1981.

RARE ANTIOCH CHINESE FAMILY'S 1907 ANTIOCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL CABINET CARD CLASS PHOTOGRAPH. Antique photograph featuring the students and teachers of the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade classes posing on the front steps of the Antioch Grammar School building. The classes are a mixture of girls and boys, all the students are white except for one Chinese boy partially obscured by the child in front of him.

Original 1907 Cabinet Card Photograph. 12" x 10". With Chinese language handwritten note in black ink on the verso "1907 Antioch Elementary School Class" and in English in the same hand "3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades." The photographer is not stated nor is the name of the Chinese boy or his family identified. NEAR FINE CONDITION: a bright and clean image. Scarce.

Antioch, a Bay Area city on the banks of the San Joaquin River in Contra Costa County has a complicated history of discrimination against Chinese immigrants. Chinese people began to arrive in Antioch during the Gold Rush of 1848 and established a small Chinatown downtown. They faced ongoing racism, scapegoating and xenophobia between 1850 and 1876. Antioch officially became a "sundown town" banning Chinese residents from walking city streets after sunset. In 1860 the State banned Chinese children from attending public schools with white children, and created the Chinese Exclusion Acts. In 1876 the anti Chinese sentiments of the Antioch community reached a point of no return when white mobs forcibly displaced Chinese residents and burned Chinatown to the ground. For nearly 100 years after this, almost no Chinese people lived in Antioch. In 2021, Antioch became the first city in the U.S. to officially apologize for mistreatment of Chinese people.

FEMMES DE COREE (WOMEN OF KOREA) Issue NUMBER 1, 1971.

The First and apparently Only Issue of this magazine on NORTH KOREAN COMMUNIST WOMEN. Features North Korean Women singing the praises of Kim Il Sung and Communism, 1971.

Produced and Published by Le Comite Central de l'Union Democratique des Femmes (Central Committee of the Democratic Union of Women), PYONGYANG, KOREA, 1971.

Magazine, side stapled, 8.5x11.5 inches (22x28.5 cm), 64 pages. TEXT IN FRENCH.

Illustrated with photographs, including an eight page section of photographs of women singing (literally) the praises of Kim Il Sung and the communist dictatorship, lots of parades too.

Sections include: Rapport d'Activité du Comité Central au IVe Congrès de L'Union Démocratique des Femmes de Corée (Report of the Activities of the Central Committee at the Fourth Congress of the Democratic Union of Women of Korea); L'Appel Lancé Aux Femmes Sud Coréennes (An Appeal to South Korean Women); La Lettre à l'Adresse des Femmes Coréennes Résidant au Japon (Letter Addressed to Korean Women Living in Japan); L'Atrocité Diabolique du Loup, Impérialiste Américain (Diabolical Atrocities of the Wolf, the American Imperialist); and more.

VERY GOOD condition, some light creases and general signs of handling, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

SCARCE. This is the only copy I have ever seen.

Post-WWII Letter from SHANGHAI Manufacturer trying to Renew Business in S.F. CHINATOWN

1946 TLS from LEE TONG & CO. "MANUFACTURERS & EXPORTERS OF CHINESE THINGS", SHANGHAI, CHINA - to MR. D. S. PUN "CITY OF CHINA", SAN FRANCISCO [Geary Street, CHINATOWN].

Single sheet letter typed on thin paper with letterhead, 8.5x11 inches, hand signed. The letter's envelope is included.

Condition: The letter is in GOOD condition, it has several folds where it was folded to fit into the envelope, and has light signs of handling and age, otherwise it is solid, clear and fully legible. The envelope has a large piece missing from its backside, creases from handling, and is toned, but the typed City of China / San Francisco address and the printed Lee Tong & Co. / Shanghai return address on the front side are bright and clear.

What I find most interesting about the letter is the part where Lee Tong talks about how good business was prior to WWII and how bad things are in China now (1946). He clearly hopes to rebuild his business with the help of U.S. import shops like The City Of China, and that by doing so he will help rebuild China. The full text of the letter, grammatically as written, follows:

********************************************** Shanghai, 5th April, 1946.

Messrs City of China,

440 Grant Avenue,

San Francisco, Calif. U.S.A.

Att. Mr. D. S. Pun

Dear sir,

We wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 5th March, which is highly interesting to us; attached herewith our price list, we hope it will meet your requirement.

We have pleasure to take this opportunity to introduce ourself to your goodself that we are the manufacturer of all kinds of embroideries, silk lingeries, robs, coats and also dealing all kinds of lace, linen, needle points, carved wood-war, black wood-ware, china-ware, rugs, antiques and any things Chinese. The writer has been an exporter and manufacturer for about thirty years in above lines. We had many connections in the main city of China. When the time of pre-war we had supplied to many department stores or jobbers in U.S.A. and as well as many other merchants in different countries. Any line which produces in China does not mention in above please do not be hasted to drop us a few lines if you are interesting in. We will be sure to inform you all the particulars by returned mail. For our bank reference we suggest you to enquire Chase Bank, Shanghai.

China was in war for so many years. People in this country are very poor. We need our overseas citizens to give us help to rebuild our country. Of course things are abnormal here, cost of living is so high and commodities are so in shortage that make the merchandise a little bit higher. It is a discouragement for the export business at present. However we hope our government in soon future uses double effort to abolish all our difficulties.

Thanking for your kind letter, hoping for your esteemed order and establishing our cooperation,

Yours very truly,

LEE TONG & CO. LEE TONG (Signed) **********************************************

FINE-ENAMELLED WARE OF THE CH'ING DYNASTY - YUNG CHÊNG - PERIOD I AND PERIOD II (Two Volumes) - PORCELAIN FROM THE NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM.

Published by CAFA, Hong Kong, 1967.

Two Folio Volumes, hardcover books in dustjackets, one in a slipcase, both in their original boxes; 11x15 inches. The two "Yung Chêng Period" volumes have a total of 149 text pages and 110 pages of photographic plates illustrating 55 YUNG CHÊNG PERIOD PORCELAINS from various angles including the bottoms.

The PLATES are gorgeous, full color photographs on glossy heavy-stock paper. The colors are brilliant.

CONDITION: NEAR FINE books, sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. In VERY GOOD dustjackets; the dj of Volume I has some light indents to its dj likely from being used as a backing for writing a brief note; the dj of Volume II has some foxing / offsetting (mainly at the spine folds and top margin), otherwise both are bright and solid. Volume II is in a GOOD slipcase that has wear to its spine ends and the front top opening, otherwise it is solid and doing its job well, Volume I does not have a slipcase. Both Volumes are in GOOD boxes. All the photographic plates are in FINE condition.

This two volume set of the Yung Chêng Period was published as part of the twenty volume set published by the Chinese National Palace Museum which covered fine porcelain from the Sung to the Ch'ing periods. These two volumes are the complete publication of the Yung Chêng Period.

Rare Set of Both Volumes of the Fine Enamelled Ware of the Yung Chêng Period, in their original packing boxes.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: These two large volumes are heavy and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT DR. SUN'S MAUSOLEUM - PAINTED BY ONG SCHAN TCHOW.

HONG KONG: Yik Mui Art Association, 1939. From the copyright page: "First Edition, Printed January 1939...Engraved and Printed by The Asiatic Litho. Printing Press / 390, King's Road, Hong Kong."

Hardcovers, cord binding, 10.5x15 inches oblong. Pagination: [1] Title Page / Table of Contents, [4] Preface Pages, [2] Comment Pages, [20] Twenty Plates of Chrysanthemum Watercolors side-by-side with Calligraphic Poems. Each leaf is printed on one side only.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some rubs, a few scrapes and wear to the top of the spine, otherwise they are solid and doing their job well; internally the pages are complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

SCARCE and IMPORTANT WORK by the CHINESE / HONG KONG ARTIST ONG SCHAN TCHOW. This book almost never comes up for sale, the last copy I am aware of was incomplete - missing plates.

About ONG SCHAN TCHOW (from Wikipedia):

******Ong Schan Tchow, b.1900 d.1945, was born in the Longyan prefecture, Southern Fujian Province, China. He was known for Chinese ink wash painting, color paintings of flowers (Chrysanthemums in particular), and Calligraphy. He was one of the first Chinese artists to study in Paris and one of the early artists to integrate traditional Chinese and Western art techniques,

In Paris, Ong studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In addition, he obtained a Master of Arts in Law, French and Political Science from the University of Paris.

In Nanjing Ong produced one of his MONUMENTAL WORKS - a compilation of paintings of chrysanthemums with accompanying poems and commentary from well known persons. This compilation was succinctly called the "BOOK OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS" [and un-succinctly titled WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT DR. SUN'S MAUSOLEUM]. The book contained paintings of the vast variety of Chrysanthemums planted at the newly completed mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the "Father of Modern China", at Nanjing, the former Capital of China.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Professor Ong exhibited his works extensively and gave all the proceeds to the war relief effort. The war destroyed many of his paintings but he managed to salvage some important works. The advancing Japanese army forced him to move his exhibitions to Hong Kong and later to Singapore and Malaysia.

Ong died in 1945, at the age of 45, while exhibiting his works in Ipoh, Malaysia. In the Annals of Longyan, Ong is considered one of her most famous citizens.******

OLD TRADEMARKS / LAO SHANG BIO. Compiled by Zuo Xuchu. A book filled with reproductions of early Chinese trademark labels, each a work of art.

Published by Shanghai Pictorial Publishing House, Shanghai, China, 1999. First edition, first printing. ISBN: 7805304580. This copy was originally purchased at the Shanghai Museum and has the museum's small bar code label on the back cover.

Softcovers, French flaps, 8x11 inches, 176 pages. Illustrated with 100s of reproductions of colorful Chinese Trademark Labels. TEXT in CHINESE.

VERY GOOD condition, the spine's plasticized overcoat has bubbling, otherwise the book is tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.

From the Publisher (roughly translated by Google): "Old Trademarks was published by Shanghai Pictorial Publishing House in January 1999. The author-compiler is Zuo Xuchu. The book displays the colorful illustrations of old Chinese trademarks. It also talks about the history of China's trademarks from ancient times to the present."

MOUNT OMEI. A NEW EDITION of the OMEI ILLUSTRATED GUIDE BOOK by HUANG SHOU-FU and T'AN CHUNG-YO A. D. 1887-1891, with an English Translation by Dryden Linsley Phelps.

ILLUSTRATED with WOODBLOCK PLATES redrawn from the ORIGINAL PLATES by YU TZU-TAN.

Published by West China Union University - Harvard Yenching Series, CHENGTU, SZECHWAN, 1936. First edition, first printing of this English translation.

Wrappers, lacking front wrapper, sewn binding, 454 pages (227 double leaves), 7.25x12.75 inches (18x32 cm). Bound in sewn-on contemporary silk covered boards with a silk brocade decoration on the front cover, and partial of the front wrapper (title portion) glued to the inside front cover.

Condition: The front and rear silk covered boards that are sewn on over the original work are coming loose, hanging on with just a few threads, and the silk brocade on the front board has some loose threads; the front original wrapper is only partially present as noted above, the rear wrapper is present and has a few inch closed tear and some edge chips, the blank front free endpaper has creases, chips, and a previous owner's lovely bookplate (Hazel Rhodes), otherwise the inner pages are very nice, just a bit of corner and edge wear here and there, overall complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. The illustrations are gorgeous.

RARE and BEAUTIFULLY BOUND COPY of the 1936 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.

TSUNEKO NAKAZATO EXHIBITION CATALOG Award Winning Japanese Female Writer - PHOTOS, MANUSCRIPTS, MEMORABILIA Kanagawa Museum 1989

TSUNEKO NAKAZATO EXHIBITION CATALOG including Manuscripts, Books, Photos, and Personal Memorabilia. The exhibition, THE HEART OF THE STORY, was held at the Kanagawa Modern Literature Museum in 1989. The catalog was published by the Kanagawa Literature Promotion Foundation in conjunction with the exhibition. First Edition. TEXT IN JAPANESE.

Softcovers, 7x10 inches, 32 pages. FULLY ILLUSTRATED.

NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

About TSUNEKO NAKAZATO (from Wikipedia):

******Tsuneko Nakazato, b.1909 d.1987, was the pen name of a novelist in Showa period Japan. Her real name was Nakazato Tsune.

Nakazato was born in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture and graduated from the Kanagawa Girls' Higher School. When she was 17 years old she met Tatsuo Nagai and started writing, publishing multiple novellas before her marriage at age 19.

In 1938, Nakazato became the first woman to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, with her short story Noriai bashi. After World War II, she came to be known for a number of works addressing the issue of international marriage, including Mariannu monogatari (Maryann's Story, 1946) and Kusari (Chain, 1959), which were drawn from her own daughter's marriage to an American. Her novel Utamakura (Song Pillow, 1973) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize. In 1974, she received the Japan Art Academy Prize, and became a member of that institution in 1983.

Nakazato was a resident of Zushi, Kanagawa from 1932 until her death due to colon cancer in 1987. Her grave is at the temple of Engaku-ji in Kamakura.******

ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE PUBLISHED WORKS ON EAST-ASIAN CERAMICS.

SEKAI TOJI ZENSHU - CATALOGUE OF WORLD'S CERAMICS. Edited by Fujio Koyama, Sakutaro Tanaka, Ryoichi Fujioka, Tadanari Mitsuoka, and Seiichi Mizuno.

FOURTEEN VOLUMES, No. 1 - No. 14.

Published by The Zauho Press & The Kawade Shobo, [Tokyo, Japan], 1955 - 1958.

Fourteen Hardcover Books, cloth covered boards, front covers blind embossed with a floral design, 8.5x12 inches, approximately 280 pages per book. No slipcases.

Each volume is ILLUSTRATED with approximately 140 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES in b&w and color, plus approximately 140 pages of text RICHLY ILLUSTRATED with numerous in-text b&w photographs and drawings.

Text in Japanese. However, an English language pamphlet is laid-into each Volume except Volumes 4 and 13, that provides a Table-of-Contents, Introduction, Descriptions of the Colour Plates, and Descriptions of the Monochrome Plates.

ASSOCIATION COPY: This set was previously owned by WINFIELD SCOTT WELLINGTON, b.1897 d.1979, with his bold and florid signature on the front pastedown of volumes 2-9. Wellington was a noted San Francisco Bay Area Architect, Museum Director, Artist, and Professor of Decorative Arts at UC Berkeley. He was also a noted collector of ceramics.

Each volume covers a different period in East-Asian Ceramic History:

(1) Japan: Pre-Historic, Proto-Historic and Early Historic Periods. (2) Japan: Ceramics in the Nara to Muromachi Periods. (3) Japan: Ceramics in the Momoyama period. (4) Japan Ceramics in the Edo Period (part I).

(5) Japan: Ceramics in the Edo period (part II). (6) The Edo period (part III). (7) Tea Ceremony Implements. (8) From Ancient China to Six Dynasties. (9) China: Sui and Tang Dynasties. (10) China: Sung and Liao Dynasties. (11) China: Yuan and Ming Dynasties. (12) China: Ch'ing Dynasty and Annamese and Thai Ceramics. (13) Korea: Pre-Koryo and Koryo Periods. (14) Korean Ceramics in the Li Dynasty.

Volumes 15 and 16 which ARE NOT part of this set, were the only volumes not related to East-Asian ceramics. Volume 15 is on the ceramics of "Europe & Others" and. Volume 16 is on Contemporary Ceramics (mainly non-Asian). As a collector of indigenous East-Asian ceramics perhaps this is why Professor Winfield Scott Wellington was not interested in those last two works.

CONDITION: Volume 1 is in GOOD condition: The back cover of has the ghost of a large sticker that was removed, the front and rear covers have some small stains, and there is a bump to the top of the spine; internally, there is some waviness to the bottom margin of the first few pages, and there are small rust stains and light offsetting to the rear endpapers from the laid-in English language booklet, otherwise the book is tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

VOLUMES 2-14 are in VERY GOOD condition, just a bit of soiling to some of the covers; tissue guards have been removed from most of the frontispieces, else tight, bright, clear, clean and unmarked.

ALL THE PLATES (1800+ in the 14 volume set) are brilliant.

A couple of the laid-in booklets are wavy, and a couple have pulled from their staples but are complete.

Considered to be one of the most extensive published works on East-Asian ceramics.

About WINFIELD SCOTT WELLINGTON (from the University of California "In Memoriam" website):

******Winfield Scott Wellington, b.1897 d.1979, was an architect, collector, and esteemed Professor of Design at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Berkeley from 1937 until his retirement in 1965. He had a "hands on" approach in his teaching, his popular classes in materials required students to examine and handle the beautiful objects from his ever expanding personal collection. He was chairman of the U.C. Berkeley Art Gallery from 1946 to 1962.******

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