Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956. First edition. 317pp. Brown cloth stamped with brick-red decorative motif; brown topstain; black spine titles; dust jacket. Fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket, with a faint moisture drip to front panel and an internal tape-reinforcement at base of spine.
Attractive copy of the first English edition of this 1952 war novel by Japanese writer Hiroshi Noma (1915-1991), as translated from the French-language version by Bernard Frechtman.
