First edition. Numerous photographic plates, decorated endpapers and one double-page colour lithograph map. Japanese text with English captions. Large 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed, but overall a very good copy. 144pp. Dairen, Minami Manshu Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha, dated: Showa 7, 1932.
A fascinating photographic album produced for the South Manchuria Railway (SMR) Company which had been founded in 1906 after the Russo-Japanese War, and operated in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The company played a major role in the economic development of Manchuria as well as the colonization efforts which were sponsored by the Japanese government. In a curious mix of artistic as well as straight documentary photographs, the images in this issue are of high quality. They are beautifully printed on thick paper. Only one copy in OCLC.
