Relocation Center, First Edition (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pictorial cover Unpag [128],map,pl Photos by Clem Albers, Dorothea Lange and Francis Stewart.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. "This revealing book presents in both memoir and diary form the first-hand observations of Japanese American civilians held in detention camps during World War II [.] The reader meets a bitter Japanese American high school student who has been calmly pursuing his studies in the hope of going to college, and is now rejected by colleges because he has been imprisoned by Americans for being a Nisei (an American of Japanese descent). Here, too, is a young internee whose decision is to join the U.S. military." Octavo: [x], 102 p. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. Light rubbing to the corners and tips, with some mild edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 910pp b/w illustrations quarto paper. slight cover wear, soiling otherwise very good-.

Hardcover. 102p., very good first edition in like dj. Kaneshiro, a Kibei who was born in Hawai'i and educated partially in Okinawa, was incarcerated at Rohwer before being sent on to other relocation centers including Tule Lake. He had applied for repatriation to Japan but ultimately decided to stay in the US, eventually settling in Los Angeles.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. Oblong 4to., unpaginated, illustrated with numerous B&W photographs. Stiff, white, photo-illustrated paper wraps. Light wear to the wraps. A few smudges to the wraps. We could locate only 5 copies of this title on OCLC.

Stiff printed wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. Kurt Werth, Bernardine Custer, David Fredenthal illustrations (illustrator). First Editions. 8vo. Pp. 120 (vol. III nos. 3, 4); 112 (vol. III no. 5, vol. V nos. 1, 2.) Each issue illustrated with a pp. 8 section of b&w gravure photo reproductions plus ink drawings in the text. Two-color printed wrappers saddle stapled. Minimal toning or foxing to edges, else crisp and bright. With two original manila mailing envelopes addressed to Mr. Robert Ikeda at 28 - 4 - A in Hunt, Idaho, the Minidoka Relocation Center where West Coast Japanese Americans were imprisoned. Literary periodical of the Council established in 1940 to, in part, "overcome intolerance and discrimination because of foreign birth or descent, race or nationality." With articles by Woody Guthrie, Pearl S. Buck, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Archibald MacLeish and others.Several articles grapple with the imprisonment of Japanese Americans: a report on the December 1942 incident at Manzanar Relocation Center and a letter from its director Ralph Merritt in Vol. III no. 3. and a five-article symposium in no. 4. The envelopes make this collection specially poignant.

Condition: Good. First Edition. A Good Paperback Book with Some Restoration Work to Delicate Binding. Book is generally shelf worn with several chips to extremities. Wraps are sunned and dust soiled. Text is unmarked but scattered instances of foxing. Wraps have been reattached and strengthened with Japanese paper. Paperback. Octavo. [iii], 4-112pp. A Striking and Powerful Work from One of the 20th Century's Great Photographers. Evergreen, the important work done by Adams surround the Japanese-American internment camp at Manzanar is proving exceptionally and acutely relevant now. Publisher's Staple Bound Burgundy Paper Wraps, Seafoam Green Detailing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. 112p quarto, illustrated Texts and photographs by Ansel Adams. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed else near fine in good dust jacket with some moderate overall chipping, mostly visible on the front panel. Inscribed on the verso of the front fly: "For M.H. Pollock with good wishes of Ansel Adams Feb 1946" A photo essay on the interned Japanese Americans at Manzanar. Adams made little attempt to hide his contempt for the policy. Rare either in jacket or signed, this is both.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Green paper over boards. Worn along spine and edges. Points bumped. No jacket. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Archive of documents from the Central Utah Relocation Center, known as Topaz. From the estate of Susan Nail, daughter of the camp's Military Police company captain, who attended Topaz High School for her senior year. Includes 5 issues of the high school newsletter.

First Edition. Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal published in 1944 presents a photographic record of Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California during World War II. Adams produced the work following visits to Manzanar in 1943 and 1944, when Japanese American families were confined under wartime relocation policies after the issuance of Executive Order 9066. The book documents daily life inside the camp and portrays individuals who had lost homes, businesses, and professions after forced removal from the West Coast. Adams framed the project as an effort to depict the civic loyalty and resilience of the incarcerated community while the war was still underway and anti Japanese sentiment remained widespread in the United States. Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans. New York: U.S. Camera, 1944. First edition, first printing. Adams undertook the project after being invited by Manzanar director Ralph Merritt to photograph life at the camp. The resulting images were later exhibited publicly and published in this volume. Adams described his intent directly in the book: "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document." The photographs portray residents of the camp in everyday activities and community roles, including families, nurses, students, farmers, and veterans such as Nobutero Harry Sumida, identified in the text as a Spanish American War veteran. The book also includes landscape images of the Owens Valley surrounding the camp. Adams's Manzanar photographs became part of a broader effort during the war to shape public perception of the incarceration of Japanese Americans, and the publication and exhibition of the images generated significant discussion because of the subject matter. The work remains one of the earliest extended photographic documentations of life within a wartime relocation center. Softcover volume measuring approximately 11 × 8 inches. 112 pages including 65 photographic illustrations. Stapled maroon wrappers with light green lettering. Minor half inch tear at the lower front spine and light handling wear; interior pages and photographic reproductions remain clean and bright. Very good condition overall and an important contemporary photographic record of Japanese American wartime incarceration.