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The Paternoster Library, London, 1938. 288 pp, b&w illustrations, d/j front pasted to upper board, d/j flap blurb pasted to front end-paper, intermittent foxing, lacks rear end-paper, board corned worn, library stamps throughout, reading copy in green, cloth boards. . First published 1936.

The Paternoster Library, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. This book is in good condition and will be shipped by the working day after ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. There may be a previous owner's inscription. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.� Box 20

Doubleday. Collectible - Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. (R154) .

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled blue cloth, pictorial endpages. Stated first edition. Spine gilt mildly rubbed, front hinge starting, trace soil to block edge. Mild scattered foxing. The DJ in mylar has shallow loss to crown, some chips to heel/points, minor foxing, sunned spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pages .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1935. First printing. Very good plus in good jacket.. First edition of this novel by the famous Japanese American author about a teenage girl growing up in rural Japan amidst the cultural upheavals of the Meiji era. Sugimoto rose to fame with the publication of her 1925 memoir, A DAUGHTER OF THE SAMURAI, which detailed the story of her immigration to the United States from her birthplace in Japan via an arranged marriage; by the publication of this book, her memoir had sold over 80,000 copies. Born in the immediate wake of the Meiji Restoration, Sugimoto dramatizes another aspect of her life in novel form here: the intergenerational conflicts spurred by the rapid changes of the Meiji era, when the feudal system of the samurai (which included Sugimoto's father) was being supplanted by Western influences in commerce and technology. Reviewed favorably at publication by Alfred Kazin in THE NEW YORK TIMES, especially for its lyrical descriptions of… Read More