Illustrations Sapajou (2 results)

Paperback. 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. Sapajou (illustrator).…

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.…