Hong Kong, Reprinted by China Economic Review Publishing, 2007 - First published in 1937 by the North-China Daily News in Shanghai. 1 volume in-4, 160 pp., hard covers with illustrated dust jacket, fully illustrated by Sapajou's cartoons, perfect condition, as new.
Shanghai's Schemozzle (Volumes 1 and 2 together) by Sapajou with R.T. Peyton-Griffin ("In Parenthesis"), with a Foreword by Richard Rigby. A nice collection of drawings and cartoons published by Sapajou between 1925 and 1937.
Shanghai, Printed at the Office of the North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd, 1937. 1 volume, large folio, (31 * 23 cm), soft illustrated covers dusty with some marginal tears, 70 pages of text and cartoons by Sapajou, a good copy of this scarce publication.
Those cartoons by Sapajou have first appeared in North China Daily News between August 11 and September 27, 1937, during the Japanese Occupation in Shanghai. Sapajou (Georgii Avksentievich Sapojnikoff), a former Russian Army Lieutenant who worked as a cartoonist for The North China Daily News from 1925 onwards. The text was edited by R. T. Peyton-Griffin, editor of the paper, who used the pen-name "In Parenthesis".
A.R. Hager, Shanghai, 1937 (first edition). 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.