JADES OF THE T.B. WALKER COLLECTION AT THE WALKER ART CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, INCLUDING A BRIEF STORY ON JADE

Minneapois, Minn: WALKER ART CENTER. Good. 1952. paperback. 8x10"oversized. GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, SOME OLD WHITE SPOTS TO lite green stiff paper covers..COVER.... 1" CHIPS AT SPINE ENDS.Text is very nice indeed...cover spots are 1x2" & several smaller spots they do not distrub the text. spine chips effect 1 or 2 letters at each end ; BLACK TITLES ON LIGHT GREEN STIFF PAPER COVERS. ***SQUAREBACK BINDING**** ENTIRE TEXT ON GLOSSY WHITE PAPER . Book includes 28 pages of interesting & informative info on CHINESE JADE, and the collection & walker himself. ; 93pg pages; An important catalogue of the private collection donated to the Walker Art Center. Covering the wonderful carved jades collected over a long period of time. Covers the jades of the seventeenth through the 19th centuries, including an incredible jade mountain, which at 640 pounds, is an extraordinary piece! Walker was the earliest serious collector of Asian art in the upper Midwest and within two decades he had amassed a collection totaling nearly a thousand works of Asian art, including well over 200 jade carvings, constituting one of the most complete groupings of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. .