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Publication Date: 1929
Seller: Zamboni & Huntington, Bangor, ME, U.S.A.
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Original cloth. Condition: Very Good. Tokyo: [Printed by the Sugitaya Press], 1929. 8 5/8 x 5 7/8". 4 p.l. (all separated with tissue guards), [3]ff. (illustrations), vi, x, 219pp. Illustrations (most are black and white, half-tone photographic), 6 folding maps. Original cloth, t.e.g. Very good copy. Collated and complete. Stamp of the Japanese consulate, Los Angeles on title. Hans Nordewin von Korber's copy, with his signature. Korber, an accomplished linguist, became head of the Department of Asiatic Studies at USC after the death of James Main Dixon in 1933. Reconstruction after the 1923 earthquake.
Published by The Bureau of Reconstruction, Tokyo, Japan, 1929
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original blue buckram, gilt lettered spine, top edge gilt. Tan mottled endsheets. The great earthquake in Japan on September 1, 1923, accompanied by conflagrations that broke out in various parts of the city almost simultaneously, reduced to ashes in a single night the greater portions of Tokyo and Yokohama. This book is a record of the reconstruction of Tokyo and Yokohama, a gigantic work unparalleled in the history of city planning of the world. 219 pages with historic photographs. Bound in at the rear of the book are six large fold-out colored maps. With tissue-guarded facsimile of the Imperial Edict on Reconstruction.