Five Gentlemen of Japan. The Portrait of a Nation's Character. de Gibney, Frank

Farrar, Straus and Young. Inc. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate inside.

New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Young, 1953. 1st not stated. Hardbound. 8vo. 556 Pgs.. Good. Five Gentlemen of Japan, The portrait of a Nation's Character by Frank Gibney. Published by Farrar Straus & Young, New York, NY, 1953. 1st Edition (Not Stated). Hardbound. No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Good. 373 Pgs.

Farrar Straus Young. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (japanese identity, japanese culture) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

London: Gollancz, 1953. 1st edition. Near Fine. octavo. chipped dust jacket 373pp., map, Nice copy in scarce chipped dust jacket

Norwalk.: EastBridge.. Fourth Edition.. 2003.. Map, xiii + 386pp, new paperback. "This classic account (1952) of the makers of 'New Japan' tells the life stories of a journalist, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and Emperor Hirohito. Frank Gibney was a wartime intelligence officer who became Time magazine correspondent during the American Occupation of Japan. He went on to be a major interpreter of Japan to Americans and America to Japanese, known as a knowledgeable, genial presence in the PBS series Pacific Century. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Japan was a poor, broken, and troubled society. Many in both Japan and the West assumed that it would always be so. But Gibney reported on Japan in such telling and readable detail that we can see in this book both the now forgotten atmosphere of that time and the basis for the 'Japanese miracle' to follow." (Publisher's description). .