Cry for Happy
by Campbell, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dj
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1958). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [nice clean copy, slight wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket has a few tiny nicks and chips along the top edge, but presents very well in new jacket protector]. Novel about six U.S. Navy men (members of the Pacific Fleet Combat Camera Unit), stationed in Tokyo during the Korean War, who become partners in a geisha house -- "as wild, delightful, charming, bittersweet, and satisfying a yarn as ever was told about the United States Navy." Hollywood went a little geisha-happy in the late 1950s and early 1960s (cf. THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA, THE GEISHA BOY, MY GEISHA); the 1961 movie made from this book, starring Glenn Ford and Donald O'Connor, came rather late in the cycle (if it can be called a cycle). The book is unaccountably scarce in the hardcover issue; does this movie have a cult following that I don't know about? I seem to recall that it was kinda cute when I saw it on TV as a kid, but suspect it would be insufferable today. .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21046
- Title
- Cry for Happy
- Author
- Campbell, George
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Paul Galdone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1958)
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Tokyo, Japan, Korean War, Geishas, Movie Source, United States Navy
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