Item #140941139 Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds. Ayako Ishigaki, Haru Matsui, Pen Name.
Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds
Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds
Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds
Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds
Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds

Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds

New York: Modern Age, 1940.

First edition. Signed by the author under her pen name, Haru Matsui, on the page facing the title page, inscribed to previous owner in English and Japanese underneath a mounted photograph of the author. Gift inscription, most likely to same woman, from another couple dated November 11, 1943 on front free endpaper. [viii], 252 pp. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in black and crimson. Near Fine with darkened spot at foot, light wear, in the uncommon pictorial dust jacket, unclipped, with many chips and tears at extremities, a few tiny reinforcements on verso, Good.

The first English-language book written by a Japanese woman, a semi-autobiographical account of her political awakening and immigration to the US. During the 1930s she was affiliated with the leftwing periodical The New Masses and wrote columns that were antiwar, anti-imperialist, and feminist. With the Red Scare her husband was deported in 1951 and she followed him back to Japan, where she would write 30 books in Japanese as well as become a talk show host. A classic of Asian American literature, quite rare signed. Item #140941139

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