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Anti-Japanese: Songs and the War of Resistance by China Culture Construction Association 1938-Zhong Zitong
Changsha: Published and distributed by The Commercial Press, February 1938, third edition, 62 pages, 8vo, slight tears and colophon page stuck to inside rear cover, overall good condition.
The author describes the dangerous situation that all Chinese are facing and appeals the importance of learning resistance songs for students. The book contains 24 music of songs in total.
《抗战与歌曲》，仲子通著
出版于1938年2月商务印书馆，第三版。由仲子通著，中国文化建设协会主编。共62页，末页有撕裂，部分粘连在书皮上。作者描述了当时被日本侵略和杀戮的时代背景，呼吁人们起来进行反抗，并阐明了学生需要学习歌曲的重要性。书中包括了24首曲谱。

ASIA: the magazine of the Orient. August 1937. Volume XXXVII, No. 8. Includes part two of Edgar Snow's four part edited transcript "Schooling of a Chinese Red: the Autobiography of Mao Tse-Tung", pages 570-576 with six photographs; the entire issue intact, also with a contribution by Theodore Roosevelt Jr (first child born to President Theodore R, brother to Alice, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin), first born at the family estate at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, NY., elected to the New York Assembly 1919, afterwards appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1921, then in 1929 he served as Governor of Puerto Rico and by 1932 appointed Governor General of the Philippines (to 1937). Other articles include texts by Pearl Buck, Miguel Covarrubias (on Balinese art), and Ramananda Chatterjee. Faint water-stain in lower right corner, nevertheless a very good copy of this rare periodical containing what has otherwise been Chairman Mao's little-known autobiography.

CHINA RECONSTRUCTS (62 issues). Beijing: China periodical, 1955-1971, edited in Wai Wen Building, distributed by GUOZI SHUDIAN, printed in the People's Republic of China. Small folio (23×30 cm), each issue approx. 52 pages; original pictorial colored wrappers. All issues are English language texts.
China Reconstructs is a monthly magazine published in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian by the China Welfare Institute (Soong Ching Ling, Chairman) to present a positive image of China to the outside world. These interesting magazines are filled with articles on a huge range of subjects: Eternal Glory to the Great Leader and Teacher Chairman Mao Tsetung; Four Young Woodcut Artists; Is Selling Vegetables Revolutionary Work?; Socialist Drama; A Model for Revolutionary Peking Opera; The Red lantern; Workers Armed with Mao Tsetung's Thought Are Most Resourceful; During the Great Leap Forward period, articles about great progress in Agriculture; Industrial, Education was published in No. 4, 1959.… Read More

(Korean War)
Commemorative Album of Photographs on the Second Year Anniversary of the Korean War.
Ministry of National Defense, Republic of Korea, 1951.
Oblong 4to, [31] leaves with protective tissue; with commemorative text: 6.25 Korean War (emblem: winged five-point star and anchor) 2nd Year, D.N.D. R.O.K. flanked by Birds of Paradise executed in mother of pearl, woven silver silk tie. Containing 77 original photographs documenting the events and players in the war (including President Syngman Rhee, Douglas MacArthur, etc., with typed captions, a page of dedication with presentation To Ambassador De Tervarent … Tao-Yong Shinn Minister of National Defense Republic of Korea . An official album presented to the Belgian Ambassador and Plenipotentiary Minister in Japan, Chevalier Guy de Schoutheete de Tervarent (1891-1969), Belgium being one of the 17 countries which furnished military forces in support of the United Nations Security Council resolution to defend South Korea. Most likely each of the… Read More

HEBREW Translation of the "Little Red Book"
MAO (Zedong):
Imrot Hayoshev Rosh Mao Tse-Tung [Sayings of Chairman Mao], translated into Hebrew by Yesha'ayahu Lewitte.
Tel Aviv: Traklin, 1967.
16mo., [iv], 199 pp. + [Table of Contents]; red vinyl binding with title and star lettered in white on front cover (slight wear), with an inset photographic portrait of Chairman Mao covered in plastic and mounted also on the front cover.
FIRST PRINTING in Hebrew, although one of three different versions by different translators and different publishers all issued in Israel the same year. Of this red vinyl version, it is believed only 800 copies were produced; two bindings have been noted, the other stamped in tarnished gilt (the translator s own copy is lettered in white). An English text version was available in late 1966 distributed in Israel by Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.

(Street Life)The Little Street Sweeper; or Life Among the Poor, by Samuel B HallidayNew York: Phinney, Blakeman & Mason, 1861.Frontispiece portrait.8vo, 356pp; elaborate blind-tooled full leather covers, gilt spine with titled label.First edition, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on the front free endpaper "Genl Howard with warmest regards of the Author. New York, May 10 / 66". The recipient known as "the Christian General," Oliver Otis Howard, is a unique figure in Civil War history. His reputation as an efficient and personally courageous officer led to his eventually serving as superintendent of West Point and he founded Howard University in 1867. The author (1812-1897) was missionary to the American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless. This work supplements his 1859 "Lost and Found, or Life Among the Poor" with 12 editions published into the twentieth century.

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People's Liberation Army Heroic Struggles Cartoon Albums: Struggle for Ten Years (1926-1936, artist: Fan Zihou) & The War of Resistance for Eight Years (1937-1945, artist：Li Nu)
Published by Shandong Xinhua Book Store Jiaodong Branch, 1949. 20,000 copies were published. Oblong 12 mo., (13 × 18.5 cm), two volumes, the first volume with portrait of Chairman Mao and Zhu De on the front page. Illustrated with 12 full-page color cartoons and text: Nanchang Uprising, On Jinggangshan Mountain, Broke Crackdown for 5 times, Climbed the Snow Mountain, Across the Grass, Shanbei Reunited, 25,000 Li (1 Li = 500 meters) Long March, The Hundred Regiments Offensive, Dashed Through the Luding Bridge etc. Fine condition.
中国人民解放军英勇奋战画册一组2册：苦斗十年（范子厚），抗战八年（李怒）… Read More

(Counter-Culture)People's Yellow Pages.Cambridge, MA: Vocations for Social Change, November 1971.Sparsely but appropriately illustrated throughout.Large 4to., [ii]125 pp.; self-wrappers, overall light staining but complete. Ink annotation in outer margin of front cover.Second edition (revised, updated)Apparently the FIRST putting together of a "People's Yellow Pages" by a group that describes itself as "anti-profit": an alphabetical inventory detailing many groups, legal services, support organizations, and everything else one would be needing to know about coming out of the various movements from the late 1960s. Topics include abortion, assassination, bio-rhythm, coffee houses, communes, draft counseling, drugs, ecology, food cooperatives, group therapy and child care, help crisis, liberation struggles, mental health, nonviolence, political science, prisons, radicals, resistance, sensitivity training, spirituality, tenant's rights, war crimes, welfare, &c. OCLC locates one copy only (Emory Univ)… Read More

LIU SHAO-CH'I. Quotations from President Liu Shao-Ch'i. With an introduction by C P FitzGerald. Melbourne: Paul Flesch & Co., 1968. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Liu Shao-Ch'i, also a facsimile of President Liu's calligraphy. Small 16mo, 223pp + colophon; yellow vinyl lettered in black on front cover and spine, original stiff paper band wrapped around lower binding which has caused small offset of red coloring. Nevertheless, a fine copy. First edition thus, clearly an imitation of Chairman Mao's 1964/65 Mao Zhu XI Yu Lu (Quotations of Chairman Mao.) issued by the Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The color yellow is intended to represent the warmth and sunshine under the regime of President Liu. By 1968 it was estimated that over 700 million copies of Mao's "Little Red Book" had been printed/distributed. It is believed that the Cultural Revolution began in response to criticism Mao experienced from President Liu; subsequently Liu was condemned,… Read More

MAO ZedongQuotations of Chairman Mao ("Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu"), in Chinese.[? Peking:] General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, June 1964.Portrait of Chairman Mao as frontispiece, although it immediately follows the printed title-page. Small 8vo, [vii], 2, 2, 250 pp.; full red morocco elaborately detailed with both blind and gilt tooling, a celluloid medallion portrait of Mao inserted into the front cover; Fine designer binding, the interior with a few minor smudges from earlier usage.First edition, earliest printing of the official "Little Red Book" being selected quotations from various writings and speeches made by Chairman Mao through 1963. It was created as a book of inspirational reading for soldiers of the People's Liberation Army to help them become more familiar with Mao's teachings. This earliest version is identified by a printing error which transposes two Chinese characters at the bottom of page 82 and top of page 83, the text printed as "li men wo yong" instead… Read More

Vintage Photographs of the War-time Bombing of SHANGHAIAH FONG:
The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937. Shanghai.
Photo by Ah Fong, 819 Nanking Road, Shanghai, [1937].
Album of 110 original gelatin silver prints, two in a panoramic format (2 x 7-1/2 inches, 4.7 x 19 cm), the remainder 2-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches (5.5 x 8.3 cm), a few titled in the negative, five images (including one panorama) toned red to represent Chapei district burning at night, all prints numbered on mounts according to a printed index with captions tipped in at front.
Oblong 8vo,. [47] pp. with tissue guards between facing images; black paper boards with black cord tie (corners a litlte rubbed), the upper cover stamped in silver illustrating a city skyline ravaged by Japanese aircraft dropping bombs and tanks crashing into buildings, with a warship seen in the far background.Following the Mukden (or Manchurian) Incident in September 1931 when the Japanese invaded the north-eastern part of China, a boycott was declared on all… Read More

Shanghai: Da Zhong Culture Bookstore, distributed by Shenghuo Bookstore, 1938. Anti-Japanese war book by Jiang Ping. 20 pages in all, 8 vo. brittle wrappers with some loss at the corner.
This comic book tells a story about three sisters in Northeast China where was occupied by the Japanese. One of the sisters was caught and shot dead while they were helping Northeast China Volunteers resist Japanese. The two survived sisters reunite and continue to fight against Japanese. Illustrated with pictures and text.
《关东三姊妹》画册
画册于1938年出版于上海大众文化书店，由生活书店发行。系抗日系列丛书，作者姜平。共20页，页面稍有缺失。
画册讲述了东北三姐妹抗日的故事，三姐妹在支援抗日战争时被日军抓住，其中一人被杀，剩余两姐妹逃出后联合起来继续参与抗日。

WOODCUT: Insist on Struggling in Dabie Mountain 坚持大别山斗争
Shanghai: Published by Shanghai Magazine Company, 1950, illustrated by Guan Fusheng, including 21 pieces of woodcuts about the war in Dabie Mountain between the Communist Party and Nationalist Party. 12mo, [ii] 51pp. +3, library label around spine, slight tears to spine and cover, else very good condition.
本木刻集出版于1950年上海杂志公司，关夫生主编，21张木刻版画，主要内容介绍了大别山国共的战争。12×18cm，51页，稍有磨损，整体品相很好。

Shanghai: The Commercial Press, distributed by branches in Guangzhou, Wuzhou, Kunming, Guiyang, Hong Kong, Shantou, and Fuzhou. 1938. 8 vo. 30 pages in total. Good condition.
A general knowledge book on war by Zhao Jing, Xu Ying, basic knowledge about army, navy, and air force, air defense, use of gas mask, wartime hygiene as well as patriotism. Two maps and nineteen illustrations included.

《战时常识》—小学补充材料
《战时常识》为小学生补充中年级教材，由商务印书馆1937年第一版，1938年再版印刷，由多个分馆同时发行。共30页。书以19张图片和2个地图图文的形式描写了陆军，海军，空军，防空，毒气口罩使用等多方面的知识。