Catalogues

Fun & Games for the New Year. Japanese Sugoroku.

Welcome to Asia Bookroom’s Japanese sugoroku catalogue which we have issued specifically to welcome in the New Year. Why a Japanese game catalogue at New Year? Sugoroku has a long history as a popular New Years Day family pastime. It was a day when the family were on holiday and able to spend time playing games including sugoroku.

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Hong Kong Photographers

This small catalogue of photographs and photo books offers two striking large Hong Kong Photographic Society salon exhibits circa 1955-60 by leading Chinese photographers Francis and Daisy Wu with a few books by Francis Wu. Both of this husband and wife team were prolific and much acclaimed exhibitors in international photographic society salons in the 1940s-70s.

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Warlords, Northern Expedition & the Rise of the Kuomintang - Mingguo Political Posters

Asia Bookroom presents a collection of 14 rare KMT political propaganda posters issued by right-wing KMT departments in the late 1920s.

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Mid-Year 2020 Catalogue

This catalogue is a selection of antiquarian books, ephemera, maps and posters in English, Chinese and Japanese catalogued over the first six months of 2020.