Ko.
Tokyo: Dai Nihon Yubenkai Kodansha, 1933. 11, 651pp. Publisher’s tan cloth with title and floral design printed in black on front cover. Noticeable soiling and some staining to boards, minor wear to extremities. Some penciled doodles on endpapers, but otherwise clean internally. Very good. Item #12646
An otherwise-unremarkable second printing of a Japanese-language novel but for the fact that this example was kept by Richard T. Nomura in 1942 when he was detained at the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California. Ink ownership inscriptions on each free endpaper, as well as a paper label affixed to the front cover, provide Nomura’s temporary address at Tanforan indicated by block number. Two inscriptions read "Richard T. Nomura. 37-2. Tanforan." The inscription on the rear endpaper is a bit more detailed: "Richard T. Nomura. 37-2. Tanforan Assembly Center San Bruno Calif." The Tanforan Assembly Center operated for about six months at the beginning of the internment process as a center from which detainees were transferred to internment camps elsewhere.
Price: $450