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KOIDE, Shogo. Nankyoku Tanken Inuzori tai - Futari no Ainu no hanashi [in English:] Antarctic Expedition Dog Sledge Team - Story of Two Ainu People. Tokyo: Fuzanbo, 1945.
8vo (184 x 127 mm). Title-page printed in blue, 23 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue (spine gently sunned, some rubbing along joints, few minor stains to upper cover).
FIRST EDITION of the story of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition including the life of the dogs depicted in illustrations and text. Illustrations begin with selection of the dogs, departure from Tokyo and life aboard the “Kainan Maru”, journey to Antarctica and then to New Zealand, back to Antarctica and the encounter with Amundsen and his crew and finally landfall on the ice. Ross 2.16A (“Rare”).