Horizon Is Calling

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. Bilingual edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Good. 276pp. Octavo [21 cm] Gray cloth over boards. With gentle bruising to the spine ends. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with a loss from the paper at the head of the spine, measuring 3 inches deep by 1 inch wide. The jacket also has a small piece of tape backing tears to the foot of the spine. Text in English and Japanese. A Japanese graphic novel from the 1940s. The second volume of the remarkable story begun in "The New Sun." The second book by Taro Yashima, and an autobiographical book telling, in pictures more than words, the story of a young Japanese resistance painter and his family. Scarce early Japanese graphic novel.