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[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album of a Japanese Tourist Traveling Across the United States Just After World War I]

[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album of a Japanese Tourist Traveling Across the United States Just After World War I] by [Japanese Americana]. [Travel]. [Fujisawa, Tomonosuke]

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Title
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album of a Japanese Tourist Traveling Across the United States Just After World War I]
Author
[Japanese Americana]. [Travel]. [Fujisawa, Tomonosuke]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[Various locations in the United States], 1919. Very good.. [50] leaves, illustrated with 198 tipped-in sepia-toned photographs, almost all around 5 x 3 inches (a handful somewhat smaller), all with white ink manuscript captions in English. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album with "Places and Faces" in gilt on front cover, string tied. Moderate wear, soiling, and minor scuffing to boards. Occasional creasing and minor wear to images. A unique and informative photographic record of an extensive cross-country journey by a young Japanese man from San Francisco to New York in 1918 and 1919. The trip took place between December 1918 and September 1919, beginning in Yokohama. Though the traveler is unnamed, he was most likely Fujisawa Tomonosuke, the son of the founder of Fujisawa Yakuhin, once one of the major pharmaceutical companies in Japan. The company is now called Astellas Pharma, Inc. According to a company history, Fujisawa Tomonosuke travelled to the United States in 1919 as the company opened a branch in New York. The last page of the present album shows a Buddhist-style memorial with an explanatory caption on the verso, which states that Fujisawa Tomokichi (Tomonosuke's father) built it in 1918 to console thousands of deaths during World War I. The monument still sits in Domyoji Temple near Osaka. Another clue that the album was compiled by Tomonosuke is the practice by the compiler to identify all the subjects in the album by a prefix and their last name except for one, who is constantly referred to as "Tom." Tomonosuke's journey begins in Yokohama, where he boarded the Tenyo Maru, which delivered him via Honolulu to San Francisco on December 26, 1918. He stayed in San Francisco for about six months and visited numerous locations around the Bay Area, including Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Ocean Beach, Seal Rock, Golden Gate Park, Oakland, Lincoln Park, and more. In late-May, he makes his way to Los Angeles and Pasadena, where he visits vast oil fields (where one image is captioned "Hundreds of oil wells in Los Angeles"), a Southern Pacific Railroad station, the zoo, Bush Garden, and other sites. After a few days in southern California, Tom sets off across the continent to his presumed ultimate destination of New York, briefly visiting Salt Lake City, Denver, and Chicago before arriving at Niagara Falls by June 3. He includes numerous shots of the falls before arriving in New York City. His stay in New York was extensive, and included many sightseeing tours to locations in New York, but also New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He includes shots of Bronx Park, the Poughkeepsie Bridge, the Victory Arch, the Statue of Liberty, and other sights around Manhattan, along withe scenes in Montclair, Atlantic Highland, and Culver's Lake, New Jersey and a few locations in Pennsylvania, such as Sawkill Falls on the Delaware River. He also witnessed the commemoration parades for both the American Army's 2nd Division and General Pershing's "Grand Parade Day" in New York City, each of which he preserved in a handful of photographs. In addition to the variety of the settings, the photographs reveal real skill and technique by the photographer. The images are mostly well composed and informative in nature. Despite the fact that the compiler was Japanese, all of the captions are written in confident English, lending further credence to the notion that the compiler was highly educated and confident, as would be the son of the founder of one of Japan's most successful companies. An exceptional annotated vernacular photograph album preserving the adventures of a precocious Japanese business traveller in the United States just after the First World War.
POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF CYPRUS 1918-1926 WITH A SURVEY OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF BRITISH RULE

POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF CYPRUS 1918-1926 WITH A SURVEY OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF BRITISH RULE by G. S. Georghallides (author)

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Title
POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF CYPRUS 1918-1926 WITH A SURVEY OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF BRITISH RULE
Author
G. S. Georghallides (author)
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good binding
Description
Cyprus: Nicosia, 1979. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Binding sound; spine sunned; light bumping to extremities; back wrapper shows moderate soiling and front wrapper has fold lines to bottom edge; previous owner bookplate on front inside wrapper; no markings in text. Pages uncut. Very Good binding.
Deccani Painting

Deccani Painting by Zebrowski, Mark

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Title
Deccani Painting
Author
Zebrowski, Mark
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780856671531
Description
London / Berkeley: Sotheby Publications / University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover. 296p., profusely illus., corners bumped, else very good condition in like dj.
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The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene by Anderson, Judith H.

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Title
The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene
Author
Anderson, Judith H.
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780300020007
Condition
Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
Description
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. The dust jacket has a minor closed tear to the bottom edge of the front cover.
Rittenhouse Square
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Rittenhouse Square by ZELLERBACH, Merla

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Title
Rittenhouse Square
Author
ZELLERBACH, Merla
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780394576688
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Random House, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. Book is slightly twisted, minor shelf rubbing.

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