first edition
1939 · Shanghai
by [Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps; Nishimura Company; Taisho Photo Factory]
Shanghai: Nishimura Company, 1939. Edition not stated. Quarto (26.5cm); black simulated leather, stamped in red and gilt, in brown paper slipcover; unpaginated photo-illustrated plates w/ rice paper overlays. Wear, minor scuffs and soiling to boards; toning and foxing intermittent throughout text (especially on overlays); some overlays creased or torn. Slipcover worn and chapped, with abrasions and two large (one repaired) tears across front panel. Photo-illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Very Good in Good slipcover. All text in Japanese (with some obsolete/antiquated kana/kanji), oriented right to left. This is a privately-issued, commemorative, yearbook-type (truncated)