Carl Crow’s My Friends the Chinese

In amongst the long list of great reads produced by Carl Crow (and if you don’t know who he was then shame on you and buy my biography of him) was a book entitled My Friends, the Chinese. The book, published originally in 1938 shortly after Crow had been forced to leave Shanghai after the start of the war with Japan, was titled The Chinese are Like That in America. Crow’s great friend, the White Russian cartoonist Sapajou, provided the cartoons (as he did for Crow’s classic Four Hundred Million Customers). However, I have never seen this cover (brought to my attention by Deborah McFarlane – many thanks – and on sale on ebay for US$75 and rising). The artwork for the cover does not appear to be Sapajou in style though I rather like the typeface. Worth a quick post I thought…