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Title: [Miezaru Te] The Invisible Hand.
Description: Tokyo, Shunkodo 1921 (Taisho 10). Octavo publisher's colour colour illustrated wrapper; four photo illustrations on two plates. Stab holes indicating this had been in some outer binding; natural browning of the paper; an outstanding copy. ¶ A pulpish film edition in Japanese translation of the 1920 Vitagraph serial thriller The Invisible Hand starring the then Latin idol Antonio Moreno. The serial was not, despite what some authorities will tell you, a western. The film itself is lost and from what I can figure out not much more than production credits and a list of chapter headings survives in English. This book is near as lost, I can't find any record of another copy.By the mid fifties Moreno was a support in Creature from the Black Lagoon and an Indian chief in Saskatchewan.

Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c20th Japan modernism film cinema