art japan

Hardcover. New York, Gallery Books, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, illustrated throughout in color. INSCRIBED BY YOSHIDA on half title page. Large, very heavy book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Sirius, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Award-winning cartoonist Tony Husband tells the story of World War II through a selection of the era's finest political cartoons. Satire is one of the key weapons of war. Forget 'sticks and stones', each country uses cartoons to hit the enemy where it really hurts and to maintain morale on the home front. Each country brought their own unique style and this collection features work from Britain, the USA, Germany, Russia and Japan and features the work of some of World War II's greatest cartoonists including Bill Mauldin, Fougasse, Emett, David Low and Graham Laidler. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in black. A fascinating collection. It features the cartoons of David Low, most from the London Evening Standard, from Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 through the surrender of Japan in 1945, in chronological order. They are each accompanied by text by Quincy Howe, which explains the context of each cartoon. The reader can follow the events in the order that they happen from the build-up to the war through its conclusion, in an easy-to-read format. Howe has also written a chronology of the period, which appears at the end of the book. No dust jacket. The cloth spine has wear to top and bottom, Firm binding and the interior is clean and bright.