Author: [Edited by] Lynch, George and Palmer, Frederick
Title: In Many Wars (by Many War Correspondents) [Signed by Jack London, Grant Wallace, Etc. ]
Description: Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Company, 1904. Softcover. First edition; 10 x 6 3/4; pp. 210; illustrated silk over paper wraps; decorative string ties; cloth frayed and worn along edges with some spotting; spine strip with chips and loss of paper; text and illustrations mostly very clean; previous owner’s bookplate to front wrap verso; signatures on thin rice paper, clipped and mounted at the close of respective contributions; illustrated with photographs and plates; good to very good- condition. The book, a remarkable collection of 49 contributions by war correspondents, covering the Russo-Japanese War in Tokyo in 1904, and the signatures of 41 of them, was conceived, in small part, by boredom and, in larger part, by a desire to help, as all the proceeds from the sale of the book would be ultimately devoted to the "Teikoku Gunjin Yengokwai†- an organization offering relief to all those serving in the Army and the Navy. Literally sitting around the Imperial Hotel, waiting to be called to the front lines with the Japanese Army, and doing not much else, the journalists had decided to write short articles, recounting their most exciting experiences, and to collect them into a single publication. Most of them also signed small scraps of rice paper in black and brown ink, to be pasted below each article. Jack London, writing for the Hearst Press, would contribute "A Camera and a Journey,†also published the same year in the San Francisco Examiner under the title: "How Jack London Got in and out of jail in Japan,†in which he recounted his adventure of taking snapshots in Moji, being arrested for unauthorized photography, interrogated, fined 5 yen, and having his camera confiscated. Other famous contributors and signatories included artist, screenwriter, and journalist with the San Francisco Evening Bulletin Grant Wallace, author and correspondent Frederick Palmer, Richard Harding Davis - journalist and writer, known as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War - who, despite not signing the book, contributed the article â€oeHow Stephen Crane took Juana Dias,†and many more. (BAL 11883). Ill.: 0. 2.

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