Author: Manga.
Title: [Jinsei Mangacho].
Description: Tokyo, Kodansha 1932 (Showa 7). 20x14cm publisher's colour printed cream cloth and colour printed slipcase; 330pp and publisher's advertisements; colour frontispiece. illustrated throughout, the first 32 pages in red and black, the rest in black. Spine a touch browned, edges and case a bit more so; a remarkably good copy of a book born to be a grubby wreck. ¶ First edition; jazz age manga for grown up kids by a gang of manga stars. The cover, box, endpapers and title page are by Sugita Santaro.

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