Japan Tourism - - Japan. [title On Front Wrapper]. Orig. Edn.

S.L.[Tokyo], Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways, May, 1940. Orig. pict. col. wraps. [1]p. of introd. printed on verso of front wrapper, [36]pp. of plates, of which coloured, text-ills. and marginal illustrations after drawings, centre-fold. pictorial coloured map depict. Japan and her neighbours with indication of surface and sea-connections, small inset-map in upper left corner depict. the geo. position of Japan towards the rest of the world. Stapled. According to the preface this lavishly illustrated guide has been published upon the occasion of A: the re-opening of the Great World Fairs in the Western Hemisphere, and B: the commemmoration of the 26th Centennial of the accession to the throne of [their] First Emeror Zinmu..2,600 years of history muset have evolved a peculiar civilization to be found in no other parts of the world (cf.preface). A curious guide, probably one of the last to be published before the outbreak of the Pacific war. Very fine copy. Rare.