Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbunsha [Publisher]

TEIKOKU KAIGUN NO IYO. [The Majesty of the Imperial Navy].

Pp. [72], photographic title page and illustrated throughout with photographs, text in Japanese; obl. 4to; blue papered boards, stamped in silver (the silver lifting at a few points), the boards lightly soiled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on pastedown of rear board, the free endpapers browned; Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbunsha, Tokyo, 1942. *The work is divided into two parts, the first covers naval training, the second the unfolding course of the war, being a recording of Japanese successes from Pearl Harbor, Malaya, New Guinea, and other parts of South East Asia. One of the first publications to have shown a pictorial account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Published by a major Japanese newspaper that actively disseminated propaganda during World War II. Item #180086

Price: $4,500.00