Description: First edition, first printing of Year of the Wild Boar: An American Woman in Japan by Helen Mears. Signed on the FFEP by the author Helen Mears. Moderate edge wear and tattering to the edges of the dust jacket. $2.75 price intact. Please see photos for full condition assessment. About the book: An intelligent, observant and extremely inquisitive free lance writer records her 1936 stay in Japan (Tokyo, Hokkaido and Kamaskura)- Her curiosity took her into awkward situations, but her friendship with an English writer, a three-year resident, helped her to clearer understanding of a Great Power living in an age of nature gods, of the fantastic, unreal quality of the country and the people. An interesting interpretation, based on personal research and explained in human terms, as she talks with all sorts of people -- a perceptive, critical portrait. She likes -- and dislikes -- and she points up her interpretation to current news, so one has a sense of this being contemporary afterthoughts. This was Mears’ first book on Japan. One of the few books of the period that were not written for or editorialized because of World War II.
Price: 1200 USD
Location: Portland, Oregon
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Signed: Yes
Author: Helen Mears
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Topic: Memoir
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Year Printed: 1942
