Our Little Manchurian Cousin
Boston: L C Page, 1933.
Illustrated by Owl illustrations. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #17239
Light edgewear, light wear. Solid hardcover.; INSCRIBED slip "with the author's warmth of handshake" glued to front free endpaper and stamp "Autographed Copy Obtainable at Chinese Service Bureau, 800 Statler Building, ... Boston, Mass" on rear pastedown. Descriptions of Chinese and Manchu culture, Manchurian geography, foreign study, and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, all in a juvenile story series. Book was published just two years after the Japanese seized Manchuria in the Mukden Incident, and one year after the creation of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, when American public interest in Manchuria was piqued. ; Our Little Cousin Series; (xiii), 106, 4 ad pages; Signed by Author.
Price: $29.95