The New Sun Taro Yashima by Taro Yashima - 1943-01-01

Henry Holt and Company. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Henry Holt, 1943. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in red. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Boards have light shelf wear and bumps to corners. No dust jacket. 310 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. Softcover. Fine but art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks.. Beige/color-illus. wraps. xxxiv + 310 pp., full of bw illus. In 1939 the painter Iwamatsu Jun (1908-1994) and his artist wife, Tomoe, arrived in the U.S. as political refugees. During World War II, Iwamatsu used his artistic talents for the U.S. war effort, and he adopted a pseudonym, Taro Yashima, to protect his young son, whom he left behind in Japan. The New Sun, which was published in the U.S. in 1943, is an account of his life in prewar Japan. In its depiction of ordinary Japanese, The New Sun is both an indictment of Japanese militarism and a plea for American understanding of "the enemy." Told mainly though Yashima's powerful artwork, it is a personal and political text of a rural doctor's son who becomes an anti-imperialist artist-activist. Yashima recounts how his wife and their peers were imprisoned and brutalized by the Tokkoka, Japan's secret police, often for months without being… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943. 310 pp. Slightly yellowed endpapers, with previous owner`s inscription on ffep. Blue cloth with white titles. Front corners bumped and worn, light wear along the edges. VG+.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.25in. 310pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and inscribed, mostly in Japanese, to the prior owners: "To Mr. and Mrs. Hannell, a couple living the beautiful life. 1947. Midsummer, Chicago. Taro Yashima." VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, the top text-block edge somewhat darkened, endpapers ever so lightly and evenly toned, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text remains clean and unmarked, and the boards are bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities with slight loss at the topmost of the spine, back panel somewhat dust spotted, a hint of tanning, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.