ABC Kappa-ban

1948. KAWAI, Kijiro. ABC Kappa-ban. 30pp. illustrated. Small 8vo., original stencilled wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Japan: Privately printed,1948. An unusual Japanese artist's book in the form of an alphabet composed of hand colooured stencilled letters from Angel to Zeppelin with the letters in English with the Japanese equivalent. the choice of subject matter to represent the various letters is somewhat mysterious, running the gammut from a is for angel vis ebis for eskimo, n is for negro s is for santa claus to z is for zeppelin. A fine (truncated) copy, with a piece of newspaper glued on to the rear endpaper. A rare and charming little book. OCLC lists Buffalo & Erie PL,UC, UCLA and Waseda (Inventory #: 171883)