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Figure: The Nile From Alexandria to AswanIllustrated Guide-Map (upper half) published by Lehnert & Landrock,Cairo, 1935. As the worldwide market for his books expanded, Hase-gawa began to receive a variety of project proposals. Authors of-ten paid Hasegawa to have their manuscripts published in the distinctive woodblock-illustrated crepe-paper book format, thus diversifying his company’s cata-logue. Charles and Susan Bowles were an early example of such cli-ents. They were an American mis-sionary couple who visited Japan in the 1890s. Their exact trajec-tory and how they met Hasega-wa are unknown. Howerver, by 1893, they had published a forty-eight-page book entitled The Story of Coodles: The Only Coodles with the help of Hasegawa. It is a senti-mental tale recounting the life of a dog named Coodles from their native Vermont. Two years later, in 1895, the book was reissued under the title King Coodle the Faithful. Notably, this second edi-tion was designated as a volume of the Red Cross Library Series, presumably funded by the British Red Cross Society with which the Bowleses had been associated. In the same year, they published A Nile Voyage of Recov-