Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #48810 帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy). n/a.
帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy)
帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy)
帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy)
帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy)
帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy)
帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy)
帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy)

帝国海軍の威容 Teikoku Kaigun no Iyo (The Majesty of the Imperial Navy)

Tokyo: Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbunsha (東京日日新聞社), Showa 17 [1942]. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. 36 printed double-sided leaves. Housed in a tan cardboard slipcase with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Blue paper boards with embossed silver lettering and geometric decorative designs on the covers. Photo-illustrated title page.

This scarce work is a striking piece of photographic propaganda, displaying the power and glory of the Japanese Imperial Navy during WWII. Illustrated throughout with a total of 74 mostly full-page b/w collotype images, including stunning aerial photography.

The photobook is divided into two parts: the first one is concerned with naval training, while the second part deals with the unfolding course of the war, being a record of Japanese successes from Pearl Harbor, Malaya, New Guinea, and other parts of South East Asia.

This is one of the very first publications to have show and extended pictorial account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, including a number powerful and dynamic images (two of the images seen to be illustrations). Includes also numerous b/w Soviet-style photographic plates of naval guns, battleships, submarines and military planes, as well as photographs of operations in China, Java, Borneo, Philippines, New Guinea, and other areas in Southeast Asia. None of the images are credited to a particular photographer but included is work by Matsugi Fujio and (possibly) Kimura Ihei. The beginning of the section contains a finely detailed illustrated map showing Japanese naval positions and battles across the pacific theater.

Text and captions throughout in Japanese.

Slipcase with some light scratches, as well as minor age toning and smudges. Corners rubbed and lightly chipped. Binding with minor stains, smudges and scratches to the covers. There is a small 1/2" stain on the upper right corner of the front cover. Edges lightly rubbed, with the head of the spine lightly chipped. Interior covers and endpaper lightly damp-stained. Gutters of interior covers reinforced. Book block tight. pages throughout very clean. Slipcase in good, binding in very good-, interior in very good+ condition overall. Slipcase and binding protected in modern mylar. g to vg+. Item #48810

Price: $1,750.00

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