Facing Two Ways The Story of My Life
by Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Second Edition 1935, Book is near Fine, light tan fine cloth with paper title label with photograph of Shidzue Ishimoto on front board, tan paper title block to spine, Book is Fine, ultra clean cloth, tight and square, sharp corners, uniform light red top stain, No previous owner book plate or writing, end papers spotless, illustrated with 29 quality black and white photographs including frontispiece portrait of Ishsimoto in Geisha attire. No jacket. Ishimoto was born into a wealthy Tokyo family and became an advocate of birth control in Japan. This autobiography is an amazing story of her life in Japan and in the United States. An ultra clean and most presentable Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002649
- Title
- Facing Two Ways The Story of My Life
- Author
- Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Shidzue Ishimoto, Japanese Biographies
Terms of Sale
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Pacific Coast Books
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon
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