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Ch’ugye kasŭng 秋溪家乘 [Family Records of Ch’ugye]

Ch’ugye kasŭng 秋溪家乘 [Family Records of Ch’ugye] by CH’U, Se-mun 秋世文

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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Ch’ugye kasŭng 秋溪家乘 [Family Records of Ch’ugye]
Author
CH’U, Se-mun 秋世文
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
23, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 22, 24, 12; 38, 28, 16; 15, 1, 20, 9 folding leaves. Five full-page woodblock maps. Woodblock-printed. Five kwŏn in three volumes. Small folio (384 x 202 mm.), orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers, with handwritten titles on upper covers, old stitching. Daegu: Inhŭngjaesa, 1869. First edition of this famous biography of the 13th-century Korean scholar Ch’u Chŏk 秋適 (1246-1317), which establishes him as the author of the famous Myŏngsim pogam 明心寶鑑 [Ch. Mingxin baojian; The Precious Mirror for Enlightening the Mind], the first book ever translated from Literary Chinese into a Western language. Compiled by Ch’u’s 20th descendant, Ch’u Se-mun, our book includes records of his descendants and the establishment of the family shrine. Ever since the 1869 publication of the Inhŭngjaesa edition of the Precious Mirror for Enlightening the Mind and this accompanying Family Records of Ch’ugye, Korean (and some foreign) scholarship has held that the progenitor of the Ch’u lineage, the Goryeo scholar-official Ch’u Chŏk, compiled the Precious Mirror, one of the most widespread and influential pedagogical primers in East Asia history. Immensely popular in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam alike, the Precious Mirror is a syncretic collection of educational aphorisms organized by theme, and the first book written in Literary Sinitic to be translated into a European language (by Friar Juan Cobo in Manila, ca. 1590). According to the Family Records, the Precious Mirror was created by Ch’u Chŏk — whose grandfather, Ch’u Yŏp 秋饁, came to Korea from Song China in the 12th century — while he was serving as a royal academician during the time of King Ch’ungnyŏl (r. 1274-98). The placename Ch’ugye refers to the land granted to Ch’u Chŏk, located in present-day Yongin City, Gyeonggi province. According to the Prefaces and Postscripts of the work (authored not only by Ch’u descendants but also by eminent Korean scholars of the time), sometime around 1853, the descendants of the Ch’u clan rediscovered their ancestral tomb — lost for centuries in the aftermath of war — and began to collectively re-establish their ancestral records, leading to the compilation of the Family Records as well as the 1866 erection of the Inhŭng Academy, a family shrine located in present-day Daegu, where the woodblocks of this book were carved. Maps of the Inhŭng Academy and its environs, as well as the lands granted to the Ch’u ancestors, are included, as are detailed accounts of notable figures within the Ch’u lineage and documents related to the establishment of the Inhŭng Academy. Prefaces in Vol. 1: by Yi Min-dŏk 李敏德 dated 1866, by Sin Sŏk-hŭi 申錫禧 (1808-73) dated 1864, by Kim Pyŏng-hak 金炳學 (1821-79) dated 1869, by Yi Wŏn-jo 李源祚 (1792-1871) dated 1867, and by Pak Pong-ha 朴鳳夏 dated 1867. Postscripts at the end of Vol. 2”: by Yi Man-ik 李晩翊 dated 1869, by Cho Un-han 趙雲漢 dated 1869, and by Ch’u Se-mun dated 1868. Prefaces in Vol. 3: by Kim Sŏk-mo 金錫模 dated 1866, by Ch’u Chong-gong 秋鍾恭 dated 1857, by Cho Kŭk-sŭng 曺克承 (1824-99) dated 1869, by Ch’u Man-gu 秋晚九 dated 1857, by Ch’u Sang-U 秋尚佑 dated 1866, and by Ch’u Se-mun dated 1857. The colophon reads 當宁己巳新刊藏板于大丘仁興齋舍 (1869). Scholarly consensus on the authorship of the Myŏngsim pogam remains to be established, as 20th-century scholarship has suggested that it was compiled by Fan Liben 范立本 in the late 14th century. Our copy is in excellent condition, with very minor staining in the final volume. While the Inhŭngjaesa edition of the Myŏngsim pogam, published at the same time as the Family Records, is quite common in collections worldwide, extant copies of the Family Records are very rare, even within East Asia. We find only one copy in WorldCat, held by Columbia University (847710970), lacking the fifth kwŏn.
The Postal Alliance [Broken run of 5 issues]

The Postal Alliance [Broken run of 5 issues]

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Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC
Title
The Postal Alliance [Broken run of 5 issues]
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
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Description
Detroit, Michigan: National Alliance of Postal Employees, 1947. Good +. 12" x 9". Stapled self-wrappers. Four issues pp. 24, one pp. 32. Publication sequence: Vol. XXXIII, Nos. 8 (Aug 1946), 10 (Oct 1946), 12 (Dec 1946); Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 4 (Apr 1947), 5 (May 1947). Generally good plus with light corner and edge wear and a bit of toning; one issue with a few inked notations to rear wrapper, another with a few dogears. This is a group of five issues of The Postal Alliance (TPA), the journal of an African American-established union, the National Alliance of Postal Employees (NAPE). NAPE was founded in 1913 at a meeting of Black postal workers held in Chattanooga. Since its founding, NAPE has invited all members regardless of race, sex, creed or religion and the union claims that it was the first in the federal service to do so. Each issue of TPA on offer here stated its objective: "To keep the membership informed as to what is going on in the Postal Service; improve our efficiency for the good of the service and to show that Negroes form an integral part of American civilization, and . . . are entitled to the same equality of opportunity as other citizens to play their part in the function of our National Government." The journal provided news coverage of NAPE branches nationwide including reports on national, state and district conventions. A few issues contain editorials by J. Hamilton Johnson, a frequent and oft-cited contributor to the Chicago Defender, with titles such as "Are 15,000,000 American Born Citizens Americans or Just 'Negroes'?" and "We Fought for Democracy - Is Fascism the Payoff?" Other columns also relate to politics and labor, including one on African American fruit-pickers entitled "They Work, That All May Eat." This run also features eight different profiles of women. We learn about Dolores Greene Stevens, secretary of the Michigan branches of the NAACP, who was the "first Negro to be appointed as Music Teacher in New Bethel Township, where three-fourths of her students are white. She organized the first group of Negroes as Nurses Aides in her city." One issue features Lulu White, who served as director of the Texas branches of the NAACP. White played an integral role in the historic Heman Sweatt case in Texas which ruled that a university could not reject an applicant solely on the basis of race. Sweatt was also a letter carrier in Houston and a member of NAPE; another issue here covered his case and asked, "Do you not take pride in belonging to an organization with men of courage like Heman Sweatt?" The issues are rich with photographic images. There are shots of NAPE officers with government officials and other notable African Americans such as Thomasina Johnson, Chief of Minority Group Services of the United States Employment Service. One image, captioned "NAPE Legislative Committee Entertains the Press," shows Alice Dunnigan of the Associated Negro Press. Dunnigan was the first Black female White House correspondent, and went on to work in various capacities for the Kennedy/Johnson administration. Other images in the journal depict postal workers receiving awards and participating in conventions, civic and social activities. In 1965, NAPE was renamed the National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees and exists today as an independent labor union with national headquarters in Washington, D.C. and branches in 36 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A celebratory and well-illustrated journal of an African American-led federal union. OCLC shows twenty institutions with various holdings of TPA over three entries, many of which are bound volumes. Searching individual library catalogs revealed that eight of the institutions hold copies of the issues on offer here, though we note that seven of them hold the copies within bound volumes.

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