Title: The "Sino-Japanese disturbances": Souvenir album. Shanghai, 1932
Author: Thompson, Donald C.
Description: Dedication, title-leaf, 2 maps & 48 plates from photographs, with multiple images, tissue guards; colophon in Chinese. 18x23 cm. (7¼x9¼"), gilt-lettered cloth.Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author in pencil on the front free endpaper, dated January 1945. Fascinating series of photographs documenting the "January 28 Incident", a short war between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, before official hostilities of the Second Sino-Japanese War commenced in 1937. The cover title reads "Japans Undeclared War in Shanghai." OCLC/WorldCat lists 11 copies only - some of the entries indicate publication in Tokyo, but the anti-Japanese tenor of the book makes this seem unlikely. The dedication is to the "memory of the Nineteenth Route Army of the Chinese Government whose gallant defense of Greater Shanghai from January 28 to March 2, 1932, has won the admiration of the entire Chinese people, and to the thousands of innocent civilians who have died in the hands of the Gods of War..."
Heading: zzc(China)Place Published: [Shanghai?]
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Date Published: c.1932

Front hinge cracking, overall very good.