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POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912 YASUNASUKE (YAMABE) Ainu Monogatari [The Ainu Story], Tokyo, Hakubunkan, 1913
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POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912
YASUNASUKE (YAMABE) Ainu Monogatari [The Ainu Story], text in Japanese, 4 photographic plates, 9 pages of advertisements, tissue guard to first plate, some toning and light spotting, publisher's dark brown boards decorated/lettered in red and white on upper cover, upper cover detached, loss to extremities of spine [Ross 1.6.1, "Very Rare", calling for a duplicate of one of the plates not present in this copy], 8vo, Tokyo, Hakubunkan, 1913
Footnotes
"This narrative was written shortly after completion of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. Yamabe Yasunasuke joined the JAE at age 44 and served as dog driver during both phases of the expedition. Yasunasuke was Ainu and a cultural anthropologist with a focus on Eskimo and Japanese ethnic cultures. This book deals with his anthropological interests but includes a 38-page section covering his experiences with the JAE." (Ross).