[Literature] Okada, John No-No Boy

Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1957). First edition. 12mo. (iii), 308 pp. Quarter gray cloth over white paper-covered boards, with tape and remnants of tape on same, gutters repaired, cocked; lacking front endpaper, and first blank; wear to half-title; offsetting to boards and endpapers from tape; ex-library stamps to copyright page, dedication page, and rear paste-down; in publisher's price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, designed by M. Kuwata.

Scarce first edition of author John Okada's critically-acclaimed and only work. One of the best-known accounts of the experiences of Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.

Together with:

Okubo, Mine
Citizen 13660
New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. First edition. 8vo. (iv), 209 pp. Each page featuring a black and white illustration by the author. Gray pictorial cloth ,stamped in blue; all edges trimmed; contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper "Frank and Mary Wright / Christmas 1946 / From the Nagatas." Two pamphlets on Japanese internment by Samuel Nagata laid-in; in publisher's dust-jacket with scattered chips and loss to margins.

First edition of Mine Okubo's graphic novel (with some text) detailing her personal experiences with Japanese American Internment. Published in 1946, it was the first look at life inside the camps published after the war.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.