Description

Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 232 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated throughout with chiefly color photographs of the artwork of Phan Van Lit. First edition, first printing with no other printings listed. An introduction to the Vietnamese art of “Hon Non Bo,” literally “mountainous island in the sea.” Closely associated with bonsai (Japan) and penjing (China), Hon Non Bo is a uniquely Vietnamese art form influenced by its geography and spiritual connection with nature, i.e. the worship of “stones, trees and rivers”. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Incidental rubbing to cloth at very bottom and top edge of spine, else a fine copy in a fine dust-jacket.