Sapajou Illustrator (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Faint rubbing to cover, light bumping to tips, otherwise book is in nice conditon with clean pages, charming illustrations, and tight binding.

1 small volume in-12, 61 pp., original cover boards, spine re-backed, black and white drawings by Sapajou, a good copy. A charming booklet of sketches in rhyme for the Shanghai Child of yesterday and today. A set of twelve poems, illustrated by the famous painter and cartoonist Sapajou from Shanghai. A scarce document.…

1 volume, 8vo, 52 pp., 44 illustrations by Sapajou, hardbound, illustrated hard cover, with the rare illustrated dustjacket, a very good copy. With a long letter from James A. Rabbitt written in Tokyo, on January 17th 1938 A very nice collection of humoristic poems related to Shanghai and Hong Kong life. Most of poems are illustrated by the famous cartoonist Sapajou (Georgii Avksentievich Sapojnikoff), a former Russian Army Lieutenant who worked as a Cartoonist for The North China Daily News from 1925 onwards.…

First edition. Photographic frontispiece, 1 photographic plate, and 14maps (7 folding). 8vo. Original green cloth in decorated dust-jacket (minor tears). Overall a close to fine copy. 114pp. Shanghai, North China Daily News & Herald,  A walk in the country is a quintessential pastime for an Englishman and this guidebook gives suggestions for eleven walks in the countryside around Shanghai. The dust-jacket is illustrated by the famous caricaturist Russian emigre Georgi Sapojnikoff (dates unknown) who was better known as 'Sapajou' and a regular contributor to the North China Daily News and the North China Herald. Uncommon.…