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Forbidden Family: A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941-1945
by Sams, Margaret; & Lynn Z. Bloom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0299121402
- ISBN 13
- 9780299121402
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Brief gift note on the front pastedown endpaper. One dogear. Pages are otherwise crisp, clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Edited by Lynn Z. Bloom. 1989. First Printing of the First Edition with full number row (54321) on the copyright page. Illustrated with b/w photos. Introduction. Footnotes. Afterword. Bibliography of works cited. A volume from the Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography series. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in bright white on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "Written just five years after the end of World War II, this is Margaret Sams's moving testimony of life in a Japanese internment camp -- the can of Spam hoarded for Christmas dinner, the clandestine radio hidden in her sewing kit, the beheading of other prisoners for transgressions. With her husband held elsewhere as a prisoner of war and with a small son to protect, Margaret broke the rules both of society and of her captors to fall in love and bear a child with a kind and daring fellow internee, Jerry Sams.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xviii, 316pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026344
- Title
- Forbidden Family: A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941-1945
- Author
- Sams, Margaret; & Lynn Z. Bloom
- Illustrator
- NOT a library discard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0299121402
- ISBN 13
- 9780299121402
- Publisher
- The University of Wisconsin Press
- Place of Publication
- Madison
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
- Size
- 8vo. xviii, 316pp
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