Wakaki Manshu: shashin ni miru. [Young Manchoukuo in Pictures.] [Hsinking?:] Manshu Teikoko Seifu, 1938. Chromolithographed vignette, black and white photographic plates throughout. Original pink wrappers bound with purple string, printed paper label on the upper side (light wear, small losses at the spine).

Wakaki Manshu: shashin ni miru. [Young Manchoukuo in Pictures.] [Hsinking?:] Manshu Teikoko Seifu, 1938. Chromolithographed vignette, black and white photographic plates throughout. Original pink wrappers bound with purple string, printed paper label on the upper side (light wear, small losses at the spine).

FIRST EDITION of this finely-produced propaganda photobook, issued by the young and short-lived Great Manchu Empire. Un-credited photographers capture a great variety of subjects, ranging from the rural idyll to industrial scenes, by way of content settlers and heroic workers.