Cover by the Author-Artist of Citizen 13660
Which Way Japan?
Publication: New York: Friendship Press, 1949. First Edition.
Notes: A sympathetic view of the Japanese people written in the aftermath of the Second World War. The Japanese American artist Miné Okubo, who had published an illustrated account of life in the internment camps, Citizen 13660, a few years before, reinterprets Hokusai's iconic image The Great Wave off Kanagawa for the cover and provided small line drawing vignettes for the opening of each chapter.
64 pages. Extensively illustrated with half-tone photographs of Japan.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers.
Item No: #362005
Price: $125
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