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Korean Games/1895
Hard cover,cloth sm 4to.(10"x8").xxxvi] + 177p., Index to Korean Names, Index to Chinese Names, Index to Japanese Names, General Index .Korean Games with Notes on Corresponding games in China and Japan, 1st edition, 1st printing, limited to 550 copies, this being #119 of 550 and signed by the author, "Steward Culin". 22 vellum covered colored plates and numerous diagrams throughout. Internally near fine with only fold marks on some vellum cover sheets. Cover is beveled boards with orginal white cloth and bright Korean flag symbol in red and blue, spine lettered with red title and blue author's last name. An amazing book that documents and illustrates 135 games from pre-1900 Korea, China and Japan. A scarce title and a very informative book written and composed by Stewart Culin, director of the Museum of Archaeology and Palaeontology, Univ. of Pennsylvania. Very rare source on Korean Studies. ..............................................................................................
Biography STEWART CULIN (1858-1929) excerpted from multiple on line sources.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Pennsylvania, in 1892 Culin was appointed
Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and
Paleontology. In 1903 he became curator of Ethnology at the Institute of
Arts and Sciences of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. At various times
he served as a consultant to the United States Bureau of American Ethnology;
was on the Editorial Board of the American Anthropologist, and was a
contributing member of the American Folklore Society.
He had a profound interest in the occult and the mysterious, as evidenced by
his articles on the subjects of voodoo, Chinese secret societies, and sorcery. Culin was a
"diffusionist", and through his studies he attempted to illustrate how and
why similar games appear in different cultures.
Culin's first published report on games in 1889 concerned Chinese games with
dice. During 1891 he worked on an exhibit of games of the world for the Columbian
Exposition in Chicago, and published two papers on games - one about street
games of city boys - and the second about Chinese gambling games. A 1893
report on Chinese games with dice and dominoes was published by the United
States National Museum. Also in 1893 Culin reported on the Columbian
Exposition exhibit of games. Perhaps inspired by his work at the Exposition,
in 1894 he prepared a paper on Mancala games from Africa, which was
published later that year by the U.S. National Museum.
Culin published over 65 papers, articles, and books on a variety of
subjects, ranging from the practice of Chinese medicine in the United
States, to the evolution of fashion as found in works of fine art.
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The Mentor Magazine KOREA , April 15,1920(volume 8,Number 5)/1920
soft cover,8 vo. 12 pages plus 6 plates.
The Mentor Magazine is a unique Semi-monthly publication devoted to popular education in the arts and sciences, its motto being "Learn One Thing Every Day". Each single-topic issue is in printed wraps with eight to twelve pages of illustrated text by an authority on the selected subject, plus six photogravure black and white plates with extensive explanatory information on the back.
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Children of Korea(ca.1920)/
hard cover,cloth ,octavo.93 pages. Illustrated with 8 beautiful plates in colour.
Author of "Pokjumie,1911" ,"
KUMOKIE A Bride of Old Korea(A Love Story of the Orient),1922","The dawn of Tomorrow(Stroies vfrom Old Korea),1948"
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Korea Calls,1948","Kim Su Bang and other Korean Sketches,1909"
Contents:
1:The Country and the People
2:The Korean Home
3:The Korean Mother
4:The Children at Home and at Play.
5:Superstitions of the People.
6:Fairy tales.
7:The Cry of the Children
8:School Days.
9:The Wedding.
10:How the Missionaries came.
11:Some Boys and Girls we have known.
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When I was a boy in Korea/1928
hard cover, 8 vo.cloth,190 pages. 1st edition.
Illustrated from photographs.Written for children by Korean man.
This is a fascinating and detailed look at life in Korea.
Ilhan New,as he styled himself in America,where surnames come last,is a native Korean,born of Christian parents,who as he approached manhood was sent to the United States for his education,ans was graduated from the University of
Michigan in 1919. Aftrer a successful business experience here,he returned to Korea in 1927,and is prominently establsied in Seoul. He not only has much to tell that is of great interest to young and old,but is exceptionally well qualified to tell it,as his book proves.
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Lothrop ,Lee & Shepard Co. |
English
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Eastern Windows./1928
hard cover,cloth.
125 pp. With 12 tipped-in color plates. These letters and extracts from letters from the wandering artist in her journeyings from Japan to Hokkaido and back; fromJapan to Korea many times and back; from Japan to China and the Philippines several times and back have been grouped according to the countries in which they were written. Most of the illustrations in this book are reproductions of prints made from woodblocks cut in the traditional Japanese manner. The exquisite color plates include views of East Gate in Seoul, a Korean boy in a festival dress, Court musicians in Korea, night scene in Peking, Hong Kong harbor at night, a Japanese dressmaker and a street scene in Soochow. ........................................................
Elizabeth Keith(1887-1956) was born in Scotland and was a self-taught artist. Her sister married an English publisher who worked in Tokyo and Elizabeth went to visit her there in 1915 intending to stay for a short holiday. She travelled to China, Korea and the Philippines, painting watercolours of the fascinating scenes she saw. On her return to Tokyo she held a small exhibition and the entrepreneurial Japanese print publisher Watanabe Shozaburo persuaded her to allow his highly skilled carvers and printers to produce woodblock prints from some of her paintings. Keith wanted to master the techniques herself and she stayed on in Tokyo to study woodblock printing. Before long her blocks were carved and printed with little aid from Watanabe's artisans. Her first prints met with great success. Watanabe was delighted to publish prints by an artist whose work would be appreciated by European and American collectors. Keith was influenced by Fritz Capelari, the Austrian artist whose prints were published by Watanabe and who in his own turn had gone to Japan after the success in Vienna and Berlin of his countryman, Emil Orlik's prints made there early in the century. Keith travelled throughout East Asia and produced more than one hundred prints of oriental subjects. They were well received in the United States and Britain but Watanabe's studio was destroyed in the 1923 Tokyo earthquake and most of Keith's woodblocks were lost. She returned to England in 1924 and went to France to study the art of etching but in the early 1930s she was again back in the east and she stayed and worked there until just before the Second World War. After the war she went to the United States, where she died although in her last year she held an exhibition in Tokyo. Her talents have become much appreciated and many of her prints are in important public collections and museums. ................ She was a self-taught artist making watercolors and drawings. And Elizabeth probably would never have become the artist we know today, if her sister had not married a publisher in Japan.
A Fateful Journey to Japan
In 1915, at age 28, Elizabeth traveled to Japan where she remained for nine years. When she left England, she had no idea that she would return nine years later. Her sister had married an English publisher living in Tokyo and her trip was planned as a short vacation. Elizabeth was kept by the charm of Japan and the Asian culture and arts.
In her first year in Japan, Elizabeth had a small exhibition with caricatures of foreign residents in Tokyo. From a trip to Korea she brought some watercolors back. Watanabe, the Shin Hanga publisher saw these at an exhibition and convinced Elizabeth to transform one into a woodblock print - a view of the East Gate in Seoul. At that time she had never done a woodblock before. Although she did not perform the carving or printing herself, she wanted to have a basic understanding to supervise the process. So for the next two years she learned the Japanese woodblock printmaking technique.
Returning to England
In 1924 Elizabeth returned to England. Here she started learning color etchings. Elizabeth was back in Asia and Japan from 1932 to 1933 and again in 1935.
In 1936 and 1937 she had exhibitions in the USA. With World War II on the horizon, Elizabeth some how got mentally caught between East and West.
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English
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The Face of Manchuria ,Korea and Russian
Turkestan/1910
hard cover, cloth,248 pages.
23 plates including 14 plates in colours.
An useful account of journey by the Trans-Siberian Railway went to Manchuria, Korea and through Siberia into Turkestan. She wanted to investigate the state of these countries after the Russo-Japanese war. She also travelled to Tashkent, Samarkand and Bokhara etc.
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E.G.Kemp |
Chatto & Windus,London |
English
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The Koreans and their Culture/1951
hard cover,cloth, 387 pages. 1951 first edition.
Illustrated from numerous photographs and illustrations.maps.
A useful study on Korean culture ranging from the contemporary fishing village on the island of Kangwha to the capital, Seoul.
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Cornelius Osgood |
The Ronald Press Company,New York |
English
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IL COSTUME ANTICO E MODERBNO O STORIA(volum 2)/1842
hard cover,282 pages.
Volume 2 only of a larger set of the costumes and people of Asia. This volumes covers China, Japan and Korea. Written in Italian.Bound in 1/2 leather over marbled paper covered boards. The paper on the cover is torn in spots. The joints are strong and the insides are clean with light foxing. There are 40 wonderful full page hand colored plates.
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Giulo Ferrario |
Per V.Batelli e Compagni,Firenze |
Italian
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Notes sur Les Etudes Coreennes et Japonaises /1899
paperback,32pages.
Extrait des actes de Cogres des Orientalistes.
A report presented to The Congress of The Orientalists based on
various source materials on Korea published by foreign scholars
and missionaries who lived in Korea.
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Maurice Courant |
Imprimerie Nationale ,Paris |
French
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Japan Korea China/1921
hard cover,164 pages.
Illustrated from photographs.
A study on Culture and Art of China,Korea and Japan.
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Peter Jessen |
E.A.Siemann ,Leipzig |
German
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Japan at First Hand/1920
hard cover,482 pages.
Illustrated from photographs.
Chapters on home-life, education, sports (including baseball), fine arts, geisha, jinrickisha transportation, etc. Also contains sections on northern China, Peking, and Korea. The book is based on Clarke's first-hand impressions as an observant traveler. 125 photograph illustrations on coated stock.
Korea section : from page 348 to 373.
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Joseph I.C.Clarke |
Dodd ,Mead and Company,New York |
English
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Korea Looks Ahead/1944
paper back,64 pages.
A LAND OF PROUD PEOPLE, ANCIENT CULTURE, NATURAL WEALTH AND BEAUTY, GREETS NEW PROMISE OF FREEDOM"
This rare 63 page historical document has many black and white photographs of Japanese Occupied Korea in 1944. There is a lengthy discussion of the history of the occupation of Korea by Japan. The author ends with a very optimistic view that Korea would become a democratic nation after Japan's defeat at the end of World War II. The front inside cover states, "They [these pamphlets] are designed to give the American public reliable information on, and significant interpretations of, the Far East and the Pacific area, as an aid to intelligent public discussion of United States relations with countries of the Pacific."
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Andrew J.Grajdanzev |
American Council,Institute of Pacific Relations |
English
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Glimpses of Korea/1923
hard cover,103 pages . 12 black and white photographs . first edition.Informal account of Korea in the early 20th Century written by an American missionary in Korea . Travel sketch of the country, with hints of a missionary perspective; interesting record.
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E.J.Urquhart |
Pacific Press Publishing Asscociation,Calif. |
English
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Korea of the Japanese/1930
hard cover,225 pages.With 24 illustrations from photographs.
Personalized sketches of Life in Korea under the Government General.Favpurable to Japanese(Annotation is based on KOREA,Library
of Congress.1950)
An eyewitness account by an Englishman of the country under Japanese occupation.
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H.B.Drake |
John Lane The Bobley Head Limited,London |
English
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Pauvre et Douce Coree/1904
paperback,87 pages. Illustrated from photograpghs.
Informal account of the culture and lifestyle of Korea at the turn of the century.
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Georges Ducrocq |
Librarie H.Champion,Paris |
French
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Vivid Experiences in KOREA/1938
Hard cover/Soft cover.125 pages.
An anecdotal record of a few vivid experiences which the writer had
engaged for 15 years in Korea.(Annotation is based on KOREA,Library of Congress,1950)
The memoirs of a missionary doctor working in Korea prior to World War 2 and prior to the advent of postwar communism and the national division into north and south, with much information on the way of life of the Korean people, their customs and habits, much more; contains glossy illustrations.
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Moody Press,Chicago |
English
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Ke Sooni/1947
Hard cover/soft cover, 127 pages.Illustrated with colors /black and white sketches showing the life style of Korean girls.This is a story about a Korean girl named Ke Sooni, and her family and friends
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Virginia Fairfax and Hallie Buie |
Friendship Press,New York |
English
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Japan Korea und Formosa/1930
hard cover,256 pages.
256 Full page B/W gravure photo reproductions with titles in German, French, English, Italian, and Japanese. From the Orbis Terrarum series. Compelling photographs of landscape, buildings, and people in early 20th century Japan, Korea, and Formosa by a number of photographers; most contributed by A. von Graefe, G. von Estorff, Gertrud Fellner, and Herbert Ponting.
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Altantis Verlag Berlin |
German
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