The Asiahigraph: The Only Pictorial Weekly in the East (9 Issues -- 6 from the 1920s, 3 from the 1930s)
Tokyo and Osaka: The Tokyo Asahi Shimbun Company, 1920s, 1930s. Pictorial wrappers. The 20th century's Japanese weekly magazine of record (equivalent perhaps to Life magazine), spanning most of the century, from January of 1923 to October of 2000. Here we offer 9 very early issues: 2 from 1927, 4 from 1928, 2 from 1933 and 1 from 1934. All crisp and bright and in very sharp, VG+ to Near Fine condition. Uniform folios, hundreds and hundreds of photos (mostly gravures) throughout. The text almost exclusively in Japanese, with occasional English captions interspersed. Very Good +. Item #25098
Price: $1,000.00
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