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MICHIKO: or Mrs. Belmont's Brownstone on Brooklyn Heights
by Lancaster, Clay
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in near fine jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Rutland, VT / Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1965. First printing (stated). Fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of Lancaster's illustrated story of a young Japanese girl's cultural adjustment to daily life in America, aided by the familiar sight of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Japanese landscaping. 10'' x 7.5''. Original pictorial black and red cloth. Pictorial endpapers. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Lancaster. 59, [1] pages. Inscribed by Lancaster on half-title page. Minor soil and sunning to jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50627
- Title
- MICHIKO: or Mrs. Belmont's Brownstone on Brooklyn Heights
- Author
- Lancaster, Clay
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in near fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing (stated)
- Publisher
- Charles E. Tuttle Company
- Place of Publication
- Rutland, VT / Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- 20th century,1960s,Picture Book,Japan,Immigration,Asian American
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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