Kumsusan Memorial Palace

Kim Pok Rok; Ri Jung Gil
Pyongyang: Korea Pictorial, 1996.
First Edition.

26cm x 33cm. 136 pages, colour illustrations. Red bonded leather, gilt lettering.

Souvenir book for the mausoleum palace of the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the palace interior and exterior accompanied by captions and text in English. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC. A new work, also scarce, Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, was published in 2016 following updates to the palace after the death of Il-sung’s son, Kim Jong-il, in 2011.

Minor bumping to corners. Foxing to edges, and first and last pages. Good Condition.

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