HARRISON, Ernest John. Peace or War East of Baikal?

HARRISON, Ernest John. Peace or War East of Baikal? Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh. [1910].

8vo. Original blue-green cloth, gilt; pp. xx, 563, [4], photographic illustrations, 3 folding maps, upper cover and spine a little marked, internally, apart from minor spotting, a good copy.

First edition, presentation copy to "Mrs. J. H. More. An inadequate pledge of love and admiration from her nephew, the author, E. J. Harrison. Yokohama, July 6th, 1910". Harrison, a journalist with the Japan Herald in Yokohama, wrote the present work as "an attempt to elucidate the more recent phases of the Far Eastern problem as they affect, more particularly, Japan, Russia, and China" (Preface). His chapters consider the matters in regard to Manchuria, the Japanese protectorate in Korea, and Russian interests on the Amur river and at Vladivostok. Harrison was the first foreign-born person to achieve black belt status in judo, and many of his later publications introduced Japanese martial arts to an English-speaking audience. This is his first book, the last being Judo for Young Girls, issued the year Harrison died, 1961.

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