Boku ga tosan nara [When I Have a Little Boy]

(Tokyo: Dowa-ya Co., Ltd, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Japanese edition. Illustrated Hilary Knight. Translated by Nana Mirai. Oblong slim octavo. Glazed pictorial boards. Pink flowers on boards sunned at the joints and spine ends gently bumped, near fine, without the printed wraparound band. Although not marked, from the library of author Charlotte Zolotow; the book has been Signed or Inscribed in Japanese by translator Nana Mirai facing the title page. A nice association: Mirai translated at least a dozen of Zolotow's books into Japanese.