Need help identifying and valuing a 1920s Japanese collection of ~300 original newspaper comic strips
found this in a second-hand shop in Japan and I really liked it, so I bought it. I didn't really know what it was at first 😂
It seems to be a handmade bound collection of around 300 old Japanese newspaper comic strips. The strips are all different from what I checked, and they seem to follow the story. I also checked some pages in the middle and it still seems to continue.
The comic is 親爺教育 (Oyaji Kyōiku), the Japanese version of Bringing Up Father / Jiggs and Maggie by George McManus.
Some strips have © 1923 International Feature Service, Inc., and you can still see the original Japanese newspaper text, advertisements and articles around the comics. I found references to publications from around 1923–1924.
Someone seems to have collected the strips and hand-bound them into this little book. It's quite fragile and definitely looks very old.
I'm really curious about what I found. 😅
Does anyone know more about this kind of collection, and what it might be worth?
Thanks!