Common Ground - Lot of Five Issues: Spring Summer Autumn 1943, Autumn 1944, Winter 1945 in Original Envelopes Addressed to Hunt, Idaho Minidoka Relocation Center
New York: Common Council for American Unity, 1943 - 1945. Kurt Werth, Bernardine Custer, David Fredenthal illustrations. First Editions. Stiff printed wrappers. 8vo. Pp. 120 (vol. III nos. 3, 4); 112 (vol. III no. 5, vol. V nos. 1, 2.) Each issue illustrated with a pp. 8 section of b&w gravure photo reproductions plus ink drawings in the text. Two-color printed wrappers saddle stapled. Minimal toning or foxing to edges, else crisp and bright. With two original manila mailing envelopes addressed to Mr. Robert Ikeda at 28 - 4 - A in Hunt, Idaho, the Minidoka Relocation Center where West Coast Japanese Americans were imprisoned. Very Good+ / Good+ (envelopes). Item #8970 Several articles grapple with the imprisonment of Japanese Americans: a report on the December 1942 incident at Manzanar Relocation Center and a letter from its director Ralph Merritt in Vol. III no. 3. and a five-article symposium in no. 4. The envelopes make this collection specially poignant.
Literary periodical of the Council established in 1940 to, in part, "overcome intolerance and discrimination because of foreign birth or descent, race or nationality." With articles by Woody Guthrie, Pearl S. Buck, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Archibald MacLeish and others.
Price: $250.00