Svenskar i Shanghai [Swedes in Shanghai].

SAPAJOU (George) illustrator.

Svenskar i Shanghai [Swedes in Shanghai].

EXTREMELY RARE

First and only edition. 16 lithographic portraits. Small 8vo measuring 13.3x19.4cm. Original flexible boards bound with silk cord. Light staining and rubbing, overall still a very good copy. [16]pp. Shanghai, Privately Printed, 1939.

£1,100.00

George Sapajou (1893-1949) was the nom-de-plume of a White Russian émigré named Georgy Avksentiyevich Sapozhnikov (d. 1949), who fled to Shanghai in 1920. A political cartoonist of great talent and perceptiveness, Sapajou worked as caricaturist at the influential North-China Daily News from 1925 onwards and became extremely popular for his political and social commentary.

This brochure was commissioned by the Shanghai Swedish Society, featuring portraits of 16 members, including the chairman, Ragnar Bringert, Consul-General Johan Beck-Fris (who departed his post in March 1939), and Beck-Fris’s deputy, Erik Kronwall. Also shows is Ernest Brundin, the former husband of the American journalist Agnes Smedley. This privately published work was clearly printed in a very small edition. No copy in OCLC.

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258760

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