[Japanese Americana]: [Publishing]:

[Promotional Poster for John Armor and Peter Wright's Manzanar].

[New York]: Times Books, [1988]. Photographically-illustrated poster, 19 x 24 inches. Minor wear. Very good plus. Item #4448

A promotional poster for the publication of John Armor and Peter Wright's Manzanar, a 1988 book that combined Ansel Adams' photographs with a powerful original essay by John Hersey entitled "A Mistake of Terrifically Horrible Proportions," along with a detailed account of life at the internment camp by Armor and Wright titled, "A Portrait of Manzanar." The promotional poster includes a large Ansel Adams photograph showing one of the streets of the desolate desert internment camp and a smaller photograph of an interned family at lower left. A quote by Hersey is printed below the Adams photographs, and reads: "Thus began the bitterest national shame of the Second World War for the sweet land of liberty...." A rare book publishing advertisement poster for a notable late-20th century book on the most well-known Japanese-American internment camp in California.

Price: $250