Yokohama & Tokyo

Tokyo: Japanese Government Railways, 1930. Duodecimo in off white pictorial staplebound wrappers; b&w illus. and two folded color maps; 48 p., 19 cm. Very good(+) copy. Light wear to edges and corners of wrappers with a miniscule open tear at bottom open corner of cover wrapper; mild foxing to rear wrapper and very mild foxing around edge of cover wrapper and back of second folded map; very light soil from handling; else tight, charming little guide booklet; color illustration is clean and birght; pages are clean, bright and crisp and show only slight signs of handling; no foxing to pages; maps are clean, bright and neatly folded; staples are solid, no loose pages; a gently-loved copy. Staplebound.

In English. Very scarce in 3 libraries worldwide. Collectible. "March 1930. Printed by Kyodo Insatsu Kaisha, Ltd." -inside rear wrapper. "More overseas travellers get their first sight of Oriental life at Yokohama than at any other port of the country, most of the trans-Pacific liners making Yokohama (on Tokyo Bay) their first port of call."