Publisher:  The South Manchuria Railway Company, Dairen, Manchuria 

Publication Date:  1935

Edition:  First Edition

First Edition booklet of the Organization during the early 1930's of the extensive range of business operations under control of The South Manchuria Railway Company in Japanese-held Manchuria from its incorporation in 1906.  Such is akin to a corporate /governmental promotional and marketing publication (advertorial) of this business and operational conglomerate.  Descriptive headings for the information sections are as follows:

• Historical Background ~ Organization ~ Railway Undertakings ~ Growth of Traffic ~ Harbor Improvements ~ Warehousing ~ Railway Workshops ~ Hotels  

• Administration of Manchoukuo State Railways ~ North Manchuria Railways ~ Administration of North Chosen Railways ~ Construction Activities ~ Fushun and Yentai Collieries ~ Shale Oil Distillation ~ Administration of the Railway Zone.  

• Town Construction ~ Schools and Libraries ~ Hospitals and Health Service ~ Agricultural Experimental Stations ~ Central Laboratory ~ Geological Institute ~ Natural Resources Museum ~ Industrial and Commercial Promotions.  

• S. M. R. Finance ~ Capital Outlay ~ Receipts and Expenditures ~ Employee Benefit Institutions.

"Thus sets forth its far-flung activities and interests are inseparably tied up with the industrial, commercial, social, intellectual, and general economic life of the country, and the epic story of its growth is to a large extent the story of the phenomenal development and progress of Manchuria during the past twenty-eight years".

• This booklet of 54 pages plus cover. 
• Size of approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. 
• Imposing period photograph on front cover of a South Manchuria Railway Steamliner Locomotive. 
• Full-page map of Manchoukuo, 55 B&W photographs, distance table, operational facts and figures.
• Considering a publication age of Eighty-eight Years, this copy of SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY 1935 is excellently preserved with intact wire-stitched binding in the original light card pictorial wrappers.
• Condition is "Used".  Please review attached photos.  Inquiries welcomed.
• Minor age toning     No wear     No tears     No markings     No creases     No smudges

As a historical reference source about China, Manchuria, Manchoukuo, along with Japan expansionism, this unique and rare SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY 1935 booklet would be an exceptional addition for academia. 

SCARCE.  Seller is aware of only one other copy of this publication being available for acquisition, anywhere.