Nankyoku he Itta Neko no Hanashi (The Tale of the Cat who Went to Antarctica)

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Nankyoku he Itta Neko no Hanashi [The Tale of the Cat who Went to Antarctica]

Koide, Shōgo [adapted by]; Watabe, Kikuji [binding designed by]; [Carroll, Ruth (illustrated by)].

Tōkyō: Dōwa Shunjūsha, Shōwa 17 [1942]. First edition.

An adaptation of Ruth and Latrobe Carroll's Luck of the Roll and Go (first published New York: Macmillan Co., 1935). The children's book follows the adventures of Luck, a kitten who stows away on the "Roll and Go", a ship bound for Antarctica. The translator, Koide Shōgo (1897 1990), was a prolific author of Japanese children's books and books about Christianity. He notes in the preface that all of the in-text illustrations were created by Ruth Carroll. The pictorial binding of the Japanese edition is also evidently inspired by the original 1935 binding. A scarce Japanese translation of this little-known piece of Antarctic fiction.

One Western-bound volume, complete. Original boards worn and lightly soiled, ex-ownership names to upper and lower, extremities slightly bumped. Endpapers a little browned, repair to gutter of lower endpaper. Light internal browning. [4], 242 p. 18.5 x 13.5 cm

Nankyoku he Itta Neko no Hanashi (The Tale of the Cat who Went to Antarctica)
Price: $860.00 (USD)