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The Thai Occult Appendix
Jenx
France: Timeless, 2020.“The final book in the series responds to the questions raised from this project and covers some requested topics. These include the Land Spirits, Spirit Houses, Studying the Wicha, the role of Karma and some final thoughts on the best way to enter the system.” (publisher’s blurb) One of the first 100 copies (of a total edition of 399) with a signed and numbered card by the author laid in, with a copy of this mounted to the rear pastedown.
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Stranger in Paradise: An Expatriate’s Diary
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1980.An Expatriate’s Diary. Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. This work was his first in his Fotokopi series of architecture/artists books, being a collection of articles recording his observations of life, culture, and architecture in his new home as he attends innumerable religious ceremonies. A detailed record from an expatriate perspective of culture and religion in Bali in the late 1970s. This is the First Edition published in an edition of only 4 numbered and signed copies, with a lengthy inscription from the author on the publication information page together with a gratified passport portrait photograph of the author.
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Stranger in Paradise: The Photocopy
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1981.An Expatriate’s Diary. Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. This work was his first in his Fotokopi series of architecture/artists books, being a collection of articles recording his observations of life, culture, and architecture in his new home as he attends innumerable religious ceremonies. A detailed record from an expatriate perspective of culture and religion in Bali in the late 1970s. This copy with 3 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). Originally published in an edition of only 4 copies, this is the second edition with additional content published in an edition of 100 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the contents page. A trade edition was published in 1995.
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Variety & Design in Balinese Sculpture – a glimpse [Statues of Bali]
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, [1986].“Sculpture is the essence of Balinese Temple & Courtyard decoration: as guardian, shrine angel, diety effigy, bas relief or carved gate. The Balinese have been carving up walls, gates and shrines for at least 1000 years and in that time have digested quirks, twirls, borders, styles, movements and colouring techniques from various foreign cultures: Chinese, Javanese, Portuguese, Dutch, 20th Century Urban. The incredibly dynamic nature of Balinese Art is best expressed in carving and sculpture.” (from foreword) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. This work continues his Fotokopi series of architecture/artists books focusing on sculpture, from the mythological to the erotic. This copy with 4 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). Issued in a numbered and signed edition of 500 copies, this one of an unknown number of Special Gift Edition copies further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page.
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1988.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographers were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. The New Compiled Edition, combining volumes 1 and 2. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page, and with numerous manuscript corrections as well as additional information tabs further describing many of the illustrations
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia Volume II
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1985.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographs were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page.
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia Volume I
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1984.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographs were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift.” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. Photocopied pages (as issued), this copy with 3 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page.
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The Forgotten Frames: A Photographic Voyage with the People of Bastar
Manoj Kumar Jain
[Uttar Pradesh]: Manoj Kumar Jain, 2014. -
Landscape, 2007 – 2014
Piyatat Hemmatat
[Chicago]: Serindia Contemporary, 2015.“LANDSCAPE 2007-2014 by Piyatat Hemmatat is a limited edition (of 500) artist’s book of his Landscape series in which for the last seven years he explored ‘his alternate reality’, the landscape. His exploration of nature has informed many of his published projects and has enabled him to get back in touch with his instincts and derive creative strength from them. LANDSCAPE is a collection of his most illuminating encounters that translated into a stunning selection of thirty landscape photographs in this beautifully-produced artist’s edition volume.” (publisher’s blurb)
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[Dream Town: Tokyo Photo Collection by Kineo Kuwabara]
Kineo Kuwabara
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1977.Photobook by Japanese photographer Kineo Kuwabara (1913-2007) documenting Tokyo from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
Masatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
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[Manshu Showa Jugonen: Kuwabara Kineo shashin shu]
Kineo Kuwabara
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1974.Photobook by Japanese photographer Kineo Kuwabara (1913-2007) documenting his trip to Manchuria in 1940.
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’80s Girls Fashion Book
Mana Takemura
Tokyo: Gurafikkusha, 2020.1980s fashion designers and Japanese street style.
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World of Tatsumi Hijikata, the Originator of Butoh: A Collection of Dance Photographs
Tadao Nakatani
Tokyo: Shinsensha, 2003.Photographic record of Japanese dancer and co-founder of Butoh, Hijikata Tatsumi. Includes performances from the late 1960s to early 1970s as well as dancers from his Asbestos Studio.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Hollington K. Tong
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1953.The revised edition of Tong’s biography of the Chinese leader. Tong was a journalist and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Japan when this edition was published later as the Ambassador to the United States. This revised edition, published 16 years after the first edition, condenses the story of Chiang Kai-shek’s life pre-1936, which was covered at length in the two volume first edition, and focuses on the epic years which followed, 1937-1953. This copy inscribed by Tong in Tokyo, 1953, to the polyglot Boris Strjeshevsky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army that fled to China where he learned English and Chinese and taught Russian to the Chinese, before moving to Japan in 1939 where he learned Japanese and taught languages, before finally moving to Queensland, Australia, where he taught Russian at the University of Queensland.
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Painting Collection of Mrs. S. K. Ling
S. K. Ling
Kowloon: C. S. Ling, 1935.Foreword and epilogue is in English and Chinese, primarily illustrations. 32 colour plates and one colour photograph of Mrs. S. K. Ling.
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Early Japanese Sword Guards: Sukashi Tsuba
Masayuki Sasano
Tokyo and San Francisco: Japan Publications, 1972. -
On Demonology and Witchcraft in Ceylon
Dandris De Silva Gooneratne
New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1998.First published in 1865 this is the first facsimile edition of Gooneratne’s study of demon worship in what is now Sri Lanka.
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Pagan Innocence
K. F. Wong
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.Photobook of Sarawak’s indigenous peoples, the Dayak, taken in the late 1950s and published in London in 1960. 30 pages of text with an introduction by Malcolm MacDonald.
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The World of Homosexuals
Shakuntala Devi
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1977.Considered the first published academic study of homosexuality in India, though in the introduction Devi states it is “the work of a lay person for lay people”. The World of Homosexuals begins with a lengthy interview with a closeted homosexual and ends with a strong call for decriminalisation of homosexuality, “nothing less than full and complete acceptance will serve–not tolerance and not sympathy. By our attitudes and our actions we must make it possible for homosexuals to come out of hiding, to live their lives secure in their right to be themselves.” Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013) was an Indian mental calculator and writer, popularly known as the ‘Human Computer’ for her Guinness World Record holding speed arithmetic skills. In a documentary Devi claimed that she wrote the book as a result of her marriage to a gay man, though this claim was later refuted by her daughter and son in law, stating that Devi likely just said it as a good selling point, and perhaps also as a petty swipe at her ex-husband. Regardless of intention or spin, the book is an important and scarce source of latter 20th century Indian LGBTQ+ perspectives and history.