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1ST Edition, 1st Printing; 8vo blue cloth giltltrs, minor shelfwear, Inscribed & dated 1923 by Phelan on free ep. ow VG/ndj: xviii, 318pp, 46 full pg. photos. A nice clean tight copy. Phelan, a former San Francisco Mayor and U.S. Senator, completed a world tour in 1921-22. Most of his attention focused on Asia; three chapters are devoted to Japan, one to Korea ("crushed and humiliated"), China, the question of Philippine independence, Gandhi in India, and more. Recollections of travel, along with some observations on world politics and US immigration, Mainly on the Orient Peiking, Canton, immigration; narrative of travels in Far East & Europe, with appendix of documents on important foreign policy matters such as post-war Germany, the Disarmament Conference, Japanese exclusion, objections to Japanese legally becoming citizens, so-called biological objections to mixed marriages between Japanese & Americans, & other matters. With travel descriptions & political & foreign policy commentsof Hawaii, the possible future of Hawaii as part of U.S., impressions of Japan, reception in Tokyo, Kyoto, travels in Korea, China ( w/ discussion of opium poppy trade), Peking, the Philippines & possible Philippine independence, British India & Indian politics, India & the British empire, Egypt, Palestine, Italy incl. Naples, Vesuvius, Rome, also Monte Carlo, Carlsbad, the battlefields of Germany, League of Nations view of Germany, the Irish Free State & Irish political situation, Paris & London.