Scarce unsigned book: Japan: Her Strength and Her Beauty. First edition. NY: P. F. Collier & Son, 1904, issued at the outset of the Russo-Japanese War. Hardcover with original cover design by J.C. Leyendecker, featuring burgundy cloth-backed printed brown boards and paper pictorial onlay to front board, 11.5 x 16.5, 100 pages with numerous photographs and drawings by Henry Reuterdahl, Fletcher Ransom, Sidney Adamson, and Genjiro Yeto. Book condition: VG-/None, with edgewear, scuffs, and dings to boards.
