Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith - 1947

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown and Company, 1947 Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1947. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottoms; light rubbing to boards. No DJ. Batik-patterned brown, white and black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals;Internal hinges are sound and not split. 316 pp 8vo. This book tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry (a British agricultural officer), and with a young son to care for. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island near Sandakan, North Borneo (today's Sabah) but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak. The camp was liberated in September, 1945. A clean very presentable copy.