Why the Japanese Are the Way They Are

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in yellow photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],151pp.; maps. A few closed tears to jacket extremities, the longest approx. 1.5" to spine crown, spine a bit faded, top textblock edge dust-soiled, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Unsigned gift inscription in Italian to Bernarda Shahn on front free endpaper. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label to front free endpaper. We have been unable to verify that the gift inscription is by Appel, though he and Bernarda both lived in Roosevelt, New Jersey, in 1973.