With MacArthur in Japan: A Personal History of the Occupation by Sebald, Ambassador William with Brines, Russell - 1967

The Cresset Press, London, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. foreword by author, appendices, notes and index. Between pages 160 and 161 there are 10 pages of black-and-white photographs. Green / yellow coloured boards with black coloured insert to the back strip and can that insert gilt coloured titles. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and black coloured titles to the front panel and gilt and black coloured titles to the back strip. Black-and-white photograph of author and General MacArthur to the rear panel. At the end of World War II America occupied Japan. General MacArthur was the head of the occupying forces, but, the senior civilian civil servant of that occupying force was Ambassador William Sebald. This book is his reminiscences of that most fateful of periods and of the problems facing the Americans and the Japanese.  Softening of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners. Light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Some faint foxing to the end pages along with some offset tanning. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with some sunning of the back strip.  This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; Military History; Japan; 1940s; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 0123702. .