Search Results: Authors starting with U from Ursus Books

1890. UEHARA, Toichiro. Tokyo kaimono hitoriannai. Shonin meika. 173 leaves, all printed on both sides, including a double-page woodcut frontispiece of Tokyo. Oblong 8vo, 125 x 175 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Uehara Toichiro, 1890. A beautifully printed guide to shops in Tokyo. With numerous woodcuts throughout and a wide variety of woodcut calligraphy. Occasional minor worming, not detracting from the overall attractiveness of the work. OCLC records copies only in The National Diet Library and at Waseda.

1934. [JAPANESE CARTS]. UENO, Atsugui. Go shoguruma. [Royal Imperial Carts]. 13 leaves, including 12 coloured plates, on double leaves folded accordion style (orihon). Oblong folio, 270 x 390 mm., bound in publisher's boards, orange glazed wrapper on upper cover bearing tassels and leaves. Kyoto: 1934. A beautiful suite of decorative plates, superbly printed in gold and colour, illustrating Imperial Carts for use of the Royal Family, each with leaf of descriptive text and all within fan-shaped images. Each highly stylized image is fan-shaped; the leaves of descriptive text are embossed with vines, leaves and so forth. Although Atsugi Ueno is not listed in Laurence Roberts' Dictionary of Japanese Artists, he was clearly an artist of considerable abilities: each cart, or symbol of a cart (perhaps only a single-spoke wheel) is delicately placed among or behind a group of flowers or vines. This is the most elegant volume of Japanese Imperial Carts known to us; that this work contains… Read More

1934. USHAKOV, G.A. Geroicheskiy poked Chlyuskina. [The heroic crusade of Chelyuskin]. 24 photographs measuring 225 x 285 mm., numbered 1-23, plus one of map that is unnumbered, laid in the publisher's red chemise with title printed in white on the cover. Moscow: 1934. A celebration of one of the legendary events of the interwar years, the survival and rescue of the crew of the Chelushkin. This is definitely one of the more interesting of the dozens of examples of Stalinist propaganda "with the photomontages patently part of the Heroic Realism genre that Stalin was so keen to promote" (Parr and Badger), as opposed to industrial output. No copies are listed in OCLC. Chemise with some wear, contents in fine condition. Badger and Parr, The Photobook, Vol.1, p.164 for a different book on the same event.