Japanese Trade Directory-Collection Edition of Jiao Xunshe. Published in Tokyo. 1937, approx. 1500pp, 8 x 10.5", 8vo, quarter red leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine and cloth boards. 

In good condition with some age-related wear. Some rubbing and toning to the extremities. The previous owner's black-inked faculty stamp is on the upper text-block. General age-related toning and foxing. The fore edge includes thumb index indentations. Includes throughout the pages are full page advertisements in colored ink. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing.

An extremely scarce 1930s Japanese directory of businesses and banks. This specific book once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967)  'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages". Rahder's black-inked Yale University faculty stamp can be found on the upper text block of this folio.