April 12, 2024
1939 AGNES NEWTON KEITH 3 CAME HOME INDONESIA JAPANESE PRISON CAMP FILM BASIS
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OFFERED HERE are TWO first editions by Agnes Newton Keith, including Three Came Home, the basis for the 1950 film with Claudette Colbert, and Land Below the Wind, a beautifully illustrated and decorated first edition on Indonesia from 1939, before the war and Japanese prison camp recounted in Three Came Home. Three Came Home was published in 1947 by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, profusely illustrated by the author and Don Johnston. 7x5 inches, 317 pages. Very good condition. Land Below the Wind is 8x5 inches, also published by Little, Brown, 1939, with first edition on the copyright page. 371 pages. A lovely decorated binding.Agnes Newton Keith (July 4, 1901 - March 30, 1982) was an American author best known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in North Borneo (now Sabah) before, during, and after the Second World War. The second of these, Three Came Home, tells of her time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. She published seven books in all.
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