The Jingle of a Jap - Clara Bell Thurston ( No date [1906], H.M. Caldwell, Vintage, Color illustrated cloth hardback edition))

Condition: Acceptable: Unpaginated. 32 Doublefold pages on thick coated stock. Color illustrated on every page, illustrated endpapers. Red, green and blue decorated cloth boards in Japanese flower motifs. Open fan and a crane in graceful flight adorns the cloth covers as well.  Signs of wear and consistent use.  Spine ends show some wear. This copy lacks the small porcelain doll which should be attached to the front cover. See images for the condition of this book.

Blurb: Beautifully illustrated story of a Japanese Doll, told in verse, which has many racial overtones. A Japanese doll who loses his heart to a blue-eyed blonde, only to be spurned by her because of his appearance and lack of communication skills, whereupon he journeys back to Japan.

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