![Item No: #366145 [Report on the Second Exchange Ship, Teia Maru] Dai niji...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366145.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789882371)
First Edition. A book on an aspect of the Japanese internment during the Second World War that has seldom been written about until Evelyn Iritani's Safe Passage (FSG, 2026). The United States sent some 1500 Japanese and Japanese Americans to Japan in a series of civilian exchanges. In short, every.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A very nice inscribed first edition of one of the great works of journalism, a moving account of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan. New York University's school of journalism ranked Hiroshima as the top work of journalism of the 20th century. Hersey, who had just won.....
Price: $4,500
A very scarce example of the War Relocation Authority's efforts to find opportunities for interned Japanese Americans in New England. The pejorative headline suggests that the Boston field office of the WRA may not have fully supported the effort. This pamphlet is dated December 31, 1944. The Western Defense Command.....
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First Edition. The Blue Danube can best be described as a gentle satire of Nazi Germany, belonging somewhere on the continuum of works about the Second World War with Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5 and Mel Brooks' The Producers. He treats the horrors in a completely deadpan fashion. Residents are sent to.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A survey of the propaganda and motivational posters designed and published by the General Cable Corporation during the Second World War. The posters are documented with 33 high quality full-page reproductions printed with spot colors (rather than four-color CMYK separations). On the page facing each poster is a......
Price: $300
![Item No: #363247 [Breathing in America During Wartime] Senjika amerika ni...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363247.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698600744)
First Edition. In all likelihood, this is the first published book to describe the internment of the Japanese in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Taguchi (1905–1956), a Japanese documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, had been in the United States for several years making newsreels for American studios;.....
Price: $3,500
First Edition. The final report on the relocation, internment, and incarceration of Japanese immigrants and of Japanese Americans following the Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. While the book's chronology begins in January 1942, the chapter called "The Price of Prejudice" notes that the FBI reported.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #362061 [California and the Japanese] Kariforunia to nihonjin. Kazuo Ebina](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362061.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698465006)
First Edition. A very scarce wartime history of the Japanese in California that argues that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a symptom of the same pervasive anti-Japanese attitudes among Americans that had contributed to the Second World War. The author, according to Yuji Ichioka writing in Before.....
Price: $1,850
A card granting American citizens interned in relocation camps during the Second World War "parole" to leave the camp for work or educational purposes. This card was issued to Fumiko Ida Saito, formerly of Alameda, California, while she was interned at Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah (here referred to.....
Price: $500
First Edition. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also.....
Price: $1,250
![Item No: #361095 [Japan and the United States: Young Warriors] Nichibei moshi...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/361095.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674322187)
A book tracing the history of US-Japanese relations focusing on the growth of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and the legal and diplomatic efforts to exclude and discriminate against Japanese immigrants. The author then turns to the growing possibility of a war in the Pacific between the two countries.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A reprint of an article from Harper's Magazine by a Navy doctor stationed in Hawaii who describes the response of the Japanese-American community to the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Coggins describes their efforts to demonstrate that they.....
Price: $300
First Edition. A collection of letters to the editor and excerpts from published interviews in which "American" (presumably meaning White) soldiers express support for Japanese Americans as soldiers in the war and as loyal citizens on the homefront. The pamphlet seems rather a low-budget affair, issued by the War Relocation.....
Price: $300
![Item No: #347079 A Journey [Signed, Numbered]. Lord Dunsany, Edward Plunkett](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/347079.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1662666163)
First Edition. Long poems about the Second World War: The Battle of Britain, The Battle of Greece, The Battle of the Mediterranean, Battles Long Ago, and The Battle of the Atlantic. This is one of 250 specially-bound initialed and numbered copies issued in dark blue pebbled morocco stamped in gilt.....
Price: $100
A small homefront poster from the Second World War promoting ride sharing and, by extension, conserving gasoline and rubber, the natural supplies of which had mostly been seized by the Japanese army. 8-3/8 by 10-15/16 inches. Near fine to fine. This is an original World War II poster, not a......
Price: $125
A homefront poster from the middle of the Second World War explaining the need for gasoline rationing on the East Coast. It reads (ellipses or ... in the original), "Last year... we used about 22,000,000 gallons of gasoline a day in the gasoline rationed Eastern States alone. This year... Because.....
Price: $125
A blank poster for menus or price lists for price controls during the Second World War. The poster, folded to make four pages, as issued, includes a page of instructions to merchants and restaurant owners; the interior spread provides forty lines for filling out price information. An interesting piece of.....
Price: $125
![Item No: #308145 Canned Foods Are Vital for Victory [Poster]. United States...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308145.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1653146963)
A poster announcing the beginning of rationing during the Second World War, accompanied by a notice that consumers will need to report how much canned and bottled goods they have in their pantries. The poster concludes with the admonition, "Do not buy more than you need." (The short-term shortages at.....
Price: $150
A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in price-control efforts in order to keep inflation under control. The main graphic shows two women reaching for their baskets of groceries. The woman from 1918—the First World War—finds the basket out of reach. The "modern" 1944 woman can easily.....
Price: $200
A homefront poster from the Second World War, issued as part of a government effort to eliminate the black market for gasoline. The poster, printed in red and blue on off-white paper, lists eight actions a gas station attendant must take to ensure that the customer's ration card is valid.....
Price: $100
The smallest of three sizes of this homefront poster promoting the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD). The artist was one of the few women to design government posters during the Second World War. According to the Long Branch, New Jersey, Daily Record (12 October 1942), Emily Newman was an advertising.....
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A homefront poster promoting donations to the United Service Organizations, a group that funded and produced entertainment for American soldiers during the Second World War. While movie stars and hot musical acts performed at some USO events, this poster shows a more modest offering—a soldier with a rifle and helmet.....
Price: $200
A homefront poster produced during the Second World War by private industry to promote the installation of insulation in houses. The text continues, "Install it yourself, flame proof cotton insulation." 14 by 20 inches. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction. A near fine copy, folded.....
Price: $100
A homefront poster of a woman holding an empty basket while contemplating full store shelves. During the Second World War, the US government encouraged stores and consumers to abide by price controls and ration limits. 20 by 14 inches. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction.....
Price: $150
A World War Two-era homefront poster from private industry urging compliance with federal energy conservation goals through the purchase of consumer products (i.e., storm windows). Compared to official government posters, business propaganda posters are rather scarce. This private poster, compared to official US posters, is also much more sexist than.....
Price: $125
