Asia Bookroom

Asia Bookroom Asia Bookroom offers Asia At Your Fingertips. Books Antiquarian and New on Asia.

Asia Bookroom is a large shop filled with books, ephemera, prints and maps on Asia. We deal in books particularly out of print and rare books, ephemera, prints, maps and posters of Asian interest.

Once in a Blue Moon 30% off Sale at Asia Bookroom - Last 24 Hours!Visit our website www.AsiaBookroom.com or visit us in ...
19/08/2022

Once in a Blue Moon 30% off Sale at Asia Bookroom - Last 24 Hours!
Visit our website www.AsiaBookroom.com or visit us in person for the first sale we have had in nearly 20 years. 30% off on most items under $500. See you soon!

We are counting down to the return of the Melbourne Rare Book Fair next week! Check out this amazing Taisho 13 [1924] ma...
01/07/2022

We are counting down to the return of the Melbourne Rare Book Fair next week! Check out this amazing Taisho 13 [1924] manga map of the world [New Bird's-Eye Manga Map of the World] 世界新漫画鳥瞰図 which will be for sale on Asia Bookroom's stand!

If you are in Melbourne do not miss the 49th Australian rare book fair.
The Melbourne Rare Book Fair, Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne. Opens Thursday July 7th at 6pm through to Saturday at 4pm. Free entry. The Anzaab Melbourne Rare Book Fair Anzaab - Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers

Would you surrender for a dish of salad?A strange question we agree, but this is just one of the questions we have been ...
15/05/2022

Would you surrender for a dish of salad?
A strange question we agree, but this is just one of the questions we have been asking ourselves since we bought this WWII Japanese Propaganda leaflet. What was the designer thinking?

Leaflets such as these were dropped from aircraft over enemy forces by many countries during the Second World War. Although we have not been able to identify the area depicted with absolute certainty we believe this leaflet was likely dropped during the Malayan Campaign, rather than Guadalcanal as we have seen it attributed to. Our reasons for this attribution include the leaflet showing British soldiers whereas American servicemen were primarily involved in Guadalcanal. The burning ships offshore seem to fit more with the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse, particularly as only two are depicted, and they are being destroyed by what seem to be land-based bombers, not other ships or carrier-based aircraft. At this late stage in the Pacific War, Japan was no longer in a strong position where they could cope with POWs nor were they likely to be in a position to print colour leaflets or distribute them. Commonly airborne leaflets were used over land battles rather than in naval battles. If anyone has any other thoughts about this we would be delighted to hear from you. We are intrigued by this!

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Unit 2, 1/3 Lawry Place
Belconnen, ACT
2614

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Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday 10am - 5:30pm

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