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  • FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. by Weller, George ( Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited by Anthony Weller.)
    Weller, George ( Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited by Anthony Weller.)
    FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe and then set out to explore the devastation inflicted on Nagasaki. Censored by General MacArthur in 1945, lost for 60 years, these never-before-published reports provide a moving, unparalleled look at the bomb that killed more than 70,000 people and ended WWII. Also includes other published reports on the horrors of Japan's Pow Camps. Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited with an essay by Anthony Weller, the son of George Weller. Photographs. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-307-342018.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 45137
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  • WHEN YOU WERE HERE. by Whitney, Daisy.
    Whitney, Daisy.
    WHEN YOU WERE HERE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - A young adult novel which "explores the two most powerful forces known to man - death and love. . . Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone. . When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months."

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the pages).

    Book ID: 88008
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  • TEN THOUSAND LEAVES:Love Poems From The Manyoshu. by Wright, Harold, translator.
    Wright, Harold, translator.
    TEN THOUSAND LEAVES:Love Poems From The Manyoshu.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1985). Contains 136 poems, translated from the Japanese by Wright and arranged in a thematic sequence. These represent just a small selection from the Manyoshu - compiled in the 8th century, it contains 4,516 poems, one of the world's great collections of poetry) Includes an introduction by the translator. Illustrated throughout with classic Japanese paintings and drawings. Notes on the poems and poets. 94 pp. ISBN: 0-879512407.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 74827
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  • Yamada, Amy
    TRASH

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Kodansha International, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Japanese novelist - Japan's most liberated woman writer - to appear in English in the US. Translated by Sonya L. Johnson. 372 pp. ISBN: 1-56836-0185.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 35789
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