Asia Bookroom

Asia Bookroom is a specialist bookshop. We stock books, ephemera, maps and other works on paper all related to Asia. Quirky to classic - old & new.

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New Video uploaded to our YouTube featuring some items in-store! https://t.co/0RvbyqkRoS

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We've recently released a new catalogue on our website!

https://t.co/TB3bcddbvh

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Bookselling in the time of COVID @statelibrarynsw 29 October 📚

Sally Burdon @AsiaBookroom | Peter Tinslay The Antique Bookshop | Peter Feian Sydney Rare Book Auctions | & @MaggiePatts

#books #libraries 📓📕

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Interested in how #Booksellers managed during the extraordinary circumstances of #COVID19?

Sally Burdon of @AsiaBookroom will be in the panel of 'Bookselling in the time of COVID' from 4-5 today!

It's not too late to register now: https://t.co/BcBCOTVOgn

#SydneyRareBookWeek

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Lockdown continues in Canberra, as well as Asia Bookroom's goal to provide a space for adventure, learning & escape through books!

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Have an area of interest? Contact us and one of our friendly staff will help you find the book of your dreams✨

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Our instagram is full of truly intriguing epehemera, books, and prints that are brought to life by our team of Asian-specialists.

We hope you enjoy learning about these items as much as we have: https://t.co/Br87uRmHWg

#Asia #Bookstores #Antiquarian

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Twenty-five Hong Kong, Kowloon and Shanghai Trade Cards, some bilingual, from the late 19th - early 20th centuries

All but the single example from Peiping [aka Beijing] (which also appears to be later than the others in the collection) from the collection of Arthur Hacker

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Influential Japanese artist Takeo Takei (1894 -1983) is probably best known for his children's book illustrations but his work was far from limited to this genre. This stunning petite book titled ‘The Book of Twelve Poems’ shows Japanese clocks and other time pieces.
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While we’re frozen here in Canberra, we can dream of a July in Japan with these Summer Kimono Designs from Showa 2 [1927]

This attractive wahon [general term for a book made of Japanese paper using Japanese binding] is available on our website at https://t.co/XEBG0k7815 #163534

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Checkout our woodblock map full of colour and tiny figures illustrating the advancing Japanese forces and retreating Russians. Made in Meiji 37 (1904), this map is a Post Russo-Japanese War Chart of distances and deployments in the occupied area. 🇯🇵 🇷🇺

[Nicole Webb @nicoledwebb]

#Canberra peeps #ChinaBlonde is now available in store @AsiaBookroom - get on down there! Of course you can order it online too. ❤️ #Chinastory

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Delighted to hear from our friends @CITCproject on their latest project rebuilding classrooms at Shree Janata Secondary School in the village of Lokhim in the North Eastern Solukhumbu region of Nepal.

Learn more of their wonderful work here: https://t.co/deA8JknVDP

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Is there anything more visually satisfying than colour-coded antiquarian books? I'll wait...

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Celebrating NAIDOC through books for our youngest - special aspects of this title? Explores meaning of 'welcome to country', created by Aborigines, poetic language, 'deep yet simple', evocative illustrations, mesmerising @Aboriginal_Lit @naidocweek

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If you’re an international relations buff, this book has your name on it (please, don’t write your name in our books we beg you)

Titled ‘Will Japan and America Really Go to War?’ and published in 1931, it’s an intriguing example of the speculative writings in the 1920s and 1930s

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Happy Friday! If you're looking for an escape from Canberra's cold weather come pay us a visit in our cozy den @AsiaBookroom

[Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller @JAHBookseller]

Handcrafted Japanese Shop Signs Perfected the Art of Advertising https://t.co/82BTrVk937

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We've been flooded with requests (not really) to help some of our followers find thee perfect gift for Mother’s day.

Might we suggest this sweet Chinese ‘Children’s Day’ book for reminiscing about when you were younger and cuter? Songs for children within for serenading purposes

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Why you should get your Mother’s Day gift at Asia Bookroom over your last-minute Coles chocolate selection
-Mum won’t complain about unhealthiness
-We won’t make you queue because >bookshops<
-Our stuff is really pretty
Cons
-You’ll probably want to keep the gift 🤷‍♂️

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The items in this #catalogue have already been sold as a collection. However, knowing how many people hold the work of the #sinologists David Hawkes, and his son-in-law, John Minford, in high esteem, we present here our latest catalogue: https://t.co/kgdSbNUINO