illustrations sapajou (3 risultati)

Paperback. Sapajou (illustratore). xxxii, 246p., wraps, 5x8 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Originally published in 1937 and 1938. The former Russian Imperial Army lieutenant Sapojnikoff, a White Russian refugee who settled in Shanghai in 1920, worked as a cartoonist for various newspapers including the North-China Daily News. His work, published under the pseudonym Sapajou, was quite influential in 1930s China (Richard Rigby postulates a possible influence on the famous San Mao series). When Japan occupied Shanghai and his fellow newspapermen were interned or forced to leave, Sapojnikoff made the decision to work with the new administration. His reputation has been substantially whitewashed in recent years, but his work in occupied Shanghai was ardently pro-Nazi and pro-Japanese fascist. After the war he was unable to find work, and left for a refugee camp in the Philippines on the eve of the establishment of the PRC, dying soon thereafter.

First edition, 8vo., pp.125, half cream cloth lettered in black, red cloth boards, numerous b/w vignette illustrations to margins, endpaper maps; ownership autographs to front endapers, numerical inscriptions to prelim and end blanks (handwritten dates), partial paper-splitting to head and foot of inner hinges, with the same paper-splitting visible to lower margins (and occasionally upper margins) throughout,48 stitching visible between leaves in a couple of places, darkening and marking to cream cloth, light marking to boards, a sound or good- copy of this scarce title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Royal octavo, pp 125. Bound in red cloth covered boards over tan cloth coloured spine, black lettering to the spine. Illustrated throughout by Sapajou, the pen name of Georgii Sapojnikoff, White Russian cartoonist who worked for North China Daily-News & Herald from around 1925 until WW2. With endpaper maps of 'The Fair Pacific' also in a cartoon style by Sapajou. The book contains short verse on an eastern theme, with titles such as 'Dancing Princesses of Hongkong', 'Fairwell to our Steamer' and 'Innocents in the East'. Sapajou's illustrations are in the margins of most pages, with a few being full page. Shamus A'Rabbitt was the pseudonym of James Aloysius Rabbitt, a Shanghai resident American engineer; he also published Ballads of the East the previous year. Book plate of George and Olga Crow (he was Carl Crow's nephew) and with Olga Crow's signature above dated 1939. Internally clean, no foxing or spotting; there are several old worm holes to the edges of the spine, binding tight and square. VG- condition.