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EMORI, Kenji. Shirase Nankyoku Tanken-tai [in English: Shirase’s Expedition to Antarctica]. Tokyo: Takeuchi Shoten, 1952.
8vo (184 x 127 mm). Color frontispiece, title-page printed in red with an illustration of Shirase, 39 wood-cut illustrations in the text by M. Takinami. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, gilt-lettered spine, map illustrated endpapers; original dust jacket (spine sunned, edgewear with some small chips, old tape repair to closed tear verso).
FIRST EDITION. This book provides a biographical sketch of Shirase covering his life from childhood and through the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, briefly touching upon other Antarctic expeditions, although the primary focus is on the life and achievements of Nobu Shirase. Ross 2.6.1 (“Scarce”).