No-No Boy

Okada, John

Published by Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT & Tokyo, 1957

About this Item

First edition, cloth issue. 308 pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored paper-covered boards with gray cloth backstrip, spine stamped in blind, red, and black. Near Fine with light soiling to covers and lean to spine. Offsetting to endsheets and thin blank label to front paste down. In a Near Fine dust jacket with U.S. price intact, toned and lightly soiled. Rare. The author's only book, perhaps the best-known account of Japanese internment in the US during WWII. Any man of Japanese descent who answered "no" to two key questions, "Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered?" and "Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, to any other foreign government, power or organization?" in a 1943 loyalty questionnaire was sent to the Tule Lake camp in California. A classic of Asian American literature. Seller Inventory # 140943875

Bibliographic Details

Title: No-No Boy

Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT & Tokyo

Publication Date: 1957

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition.