GAKKAI, Denki. Nanshin Nihon No Senkusha tachi [in English: Southern Japanese Pioneer]. Tokyo: Rokko Shobo, June 1941. 8vo (184 x 127 mm). Title-page printed in red and black, fold-out map. Original color pictorial boards with an image that appears to be of the ?Kainan Maru? (spine sunned, extremities rubbed, some spitting to front joint, some small losses near head). FIRST EDITION which includes biographies of several explorers who ventured into the South polar regions during the heroic era of exploration. 30 pages are dedicated to Lt. Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. Ross 2.15.1A (?Scarce?).