Shimoda Story.
first edition
[1969] · New York
by Statler, Oliver.
New York: Random House, [1969]. First Edition, First Printing, As Stated. Octavo, black & tan illustrated cloth, (hardcover), gilt letters, xv, 627 pp. Illus. with maps, photos, figures. Near-Fine, with bumped corners, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. “Shimoda Story is much more than a chronicle of negotiations [between the U.S. and Japan]. It is both a political and a social history of Japan in the 1850s. It gives a warm and intimate picture of Shimoda, a town of spirited inhabitants -- merchants and innkeepers, fishermen and farmers, girls who enticed and entertained the crews of coastal vessels; a town which was, for a few exciting months, the setting for the drama of Japan’s reentry into the world after more than two centuries of seclusion.” (Inventory #: 70526s)