MOMO'S KITTEN

by Mitsu Yashima, Taro Yashima

$250 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

New York: The Viking Press, 1961 . First edition of this scarce Yashima title, in which their daughter Momo brings home a stray cat. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Item #38057 Taro and his wife Mitsu, real names Jun Iwamatsu and Tomoe Sasako, were antifascist activists in addition to artists; they met in the Japanese Proletarian Artists' League. After being arrested and tortured by the Japanese government for

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