The Japanese Thread: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service
By
John K. Emmerson
Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York October 1978
Various portions of this book have been previously published in Foreign Service Journal, Asia Mail, and Epoch, Report of U.S. Affairs xii, [2], 465 p.: 21 illustrations; 23.5 cm. (9.25 inches). Dark black cloth spine, with red-stamped spine title; dark green paper over boards, with black- and blind-stamped vignette on the front cover. Color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Notes and Index. Old price label on the front fixed endpaper.
First Edition
"This is the story by an American foreign service officer of a career that spanned the middle third of our troubled century. Japan became his special field, the thread of the story, which he knew first in the militaristic thirties, then in the postwar Occupation, again in the mid-sixties when he was there as U.S. minister, his last post before retirement" [from the dust jacket].
ISBN: 0030416469
Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked; as noted, old price label on the front fixed endpaper.
Dust Jacket is in Very Good Condition: worn at both ends of the spine; back section lightly soiled.
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