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No-No Boy
de Okada, John
- Usado
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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Rutland, VT & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957. First Edition. First edition, cloth issue. 308 pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored paper-covered boards with gray cloth backstrip, spine stamped in blind, red, and black. Near Fine with light wear and toning, faint offsetting to spine and front free endpaper from dust jacket, newspaper article tipped in to rear endpaper. In Very Good+ dust jacket, chipped at spine ends, spine toned, a few tiny closed tears, U.S. price intact. Rare.
The author's only book, perhaps the best-known account of Japanese internment in the US during WWII. Any man of Japanese descent who answered "no" to two key questions, "Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered?" and "Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, to any other foreign government, power or organization?" in a 1943 loyalty questionnaire was sent to the Tule Lake camp in California. A classic of Asian American literature.
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- Librería
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 140942678
- Título
- No-No Boy
- Autor
- Okada, John
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Charles E. Tuttle Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Rutland, VT & Tokyo
- Fecha de publicación
- 1957
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Japanese internment, novels, Asian American, Japan, concentration camp, camps, military, war, WWII, world war two, protest
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
Términos de venta
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Sobre el vendedor
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
Portland, Oregon
Sobre Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Tipped In
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
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