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New York: St. Martin's Press. Good in Poor dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York:: St Martin's,, (1962). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in very good dust jacket (small peeled spot on front cover of dj, toning to spine). First American edition. Rather uncommon second novel by the author best known for "Patch of Blue." Set in Japan in an isolated village on the slopes of a volcano in the years from 1941 to 1945, this is the story of an oddly assorted group of foreign civilians living out the war in near starvation and misery, and especially of the American wife of a Japanese scientist. Kata, born in Australia and married to a Japanese scientist, based this on many of her own experiences, although she commented on how good both her in-laws and her Japanese friends were to her. 206 pp.

E-212. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by St Martin's Press, New York. 1962. 206 pgs. First Edition/First Printing (US). DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (new price stamped over the old price but still stil present on the flap). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mary Ogata, the American wife of a Japanese scientist, finds herself under house arrest in a mountain village during the Second World War with her steadfast and stubborn servant Suzuki. Enduring suffering at the hands of the sadistic Captain Tanaka who is tormented by desire for the woman he hates, Mary's miserable existence is suddenly disrupted when she helps to conceal a wounded American airman in her cottage. Mary, Suzuki, and the easy-going black market trader Ludi Hoffer, must now elude the… Read More

Joseph, 1962-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback without dust cover. Clean copy, sound binding.