1946 Mine Okubo internment classic, First Edition in
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Author: Okubo, Mine
Title: Citizen 13660
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1946
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First Edition. 209pp. Original cloth in lightly worn and repaired Dust Jacket. Extensively illustrated by the author. With an original signed drawing by her on front flyleaf of a seated girl holding a fish with a cat nearby. Inscribed "To Matilda..."
Classic account of wartime Japanese-American internment, by the young Nisei artist who spent a year the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Hailed by Carey McWilliams (1944 listing above) as a "beautiful and memorable" book, "notable for its wit, sharpness of observation, objectivity and generally unsentimental attitude", and lauded by her later biographers as a "landmark...the first and arguably best-known autobiographical narrative of the wartime Japanese American relocation and confinement experience." (See other Okubo listings in this auction, including her similar sketch in a 1972 museum catalogue of her work)
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