Without Seeing Dawn (5 results)

Brossura. Condition: fine. English Text.Richardson, 2015; paperback, pp. 100, b/w ill. Libro.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light edgewear, name and date to first page, slight browning to pages, else tight and clean. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages; 1947 Little, Brown & Company. HC/DJ. First edition, first printing (stated). Snugly bound and very neat in full tan cloth with titles in gilt to three green spine panels and a wraparound pictorial design in blind. Javellana's only novel, set in a rural barrio in Iloilo, tracing peasant life before the war and through the Japanese occupation and guerrilla resistance; widely regarded as an important early Filipino novel in English and one of the first substantial fictional accounts of the Philippine WWII experience to be issued by a major American publisher, and later adapted (loosely) for film (Santiago! , dir. Lino Brocka, 1970) and for Philippine television (Malayo Pa ang Umaga). Wraparound color pictorial dust jacket from a design by George Salter retains the publisher's $2.75 issue price to the unclipped front flap. Jacket is rubbed and worn with shallow nicks and short closed tears at edges, and unfortunately shows the prior owner's well-intentioned but over-zealous cellotape "reinforcements" to spine ends and folds and along the top and bottom edges of the rear panel, the tape now browned and somewhat brittle. Still presents decently in fresh archival mylar; jacket otherwise unrestored. Book is VG++ to NF but in a Good only dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book near fine, dust jacket has some chipping to the edges, price intact, very good. First edition so stated. First novel of a Filipino writer to be published in America.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); khaki cloth-covered boards, blocked and titled in green and gilt on spine, and decorations embossed to spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xvi],[3],4-359,[1]pp. Pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Very slight waviness to lower edge of textblock; two very small nicks on rear endpaper and rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket, designed by George Salter, unclipped (priced $2.75), shelf-worn, with 1.5" closed tear to rear spine fold, with several tiny chips, small tears, and attendant creases; Very Good. The Filipino author's only published novel (later released under the title The Lost Ones). Javellana's experience as a guerrilla during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines is evident in his two-part novel ("Day" and "Night") describing events before and during the war. He focuses on the struggle of his people through farmer folk characters, feeling that was ".the most sincere, most accurate, and most moving story about the Philippines would be the story of those who dug their plows into the rich earth and prayed for the coming of rain and whose sons were with the guerrillas" (from rear panel). A film adaptation, Santiago!, was directed by Filipino director Lino Brocka (1939-1991), who co-founded the Free the Artist Movement and the Concerned Artists for Phillipines (CAP); he was appointed by President Corazon Aquino for Constitutional Commission to draft the country's new constitituion. Without Seeing the Dawn also received an award-winning TV mini-series adaptation, Malayo Pa Ang Umaga. [82279].