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Windows for the Crown Prince by Elizabeth Gray Vining (1952) (L34d4) J. B. Lippincott HC
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The intimate personal story of an American woman's four remarkable years as private tutor to the Crown Prince of Japan
In these pages is chronicled a unique experience. Appointed by his Imperial Highness, the Emperor of Japan, to tutor the young Crown Prince Akihito in English, Elizabeth Gray Vining ventured in 1946, with courage and a creative mind, into a strange land, poverty-stricken after a disastrous war, and into a court hedged about with ceremonial restrictions.
This book is the record of her four years at the Imperial Court, where she helped to guide the young Prince from a chubby child to a poised, attractive youth with high sense of responsibility
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Format: hardcover
Pages: 320
Book Condition: Good
Defects: has a name stick inside cover
Dust Jacket: Acceptable-Poor / has tearing along edges and at cover creases
Copyright: 1952 by Elizabeth Gray Vining
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
Edition: Christian Herald's Family Bookshelf Selection
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In these pages is chronicled a unique experience. Appointed by his Imperial Highness, the Emperor of Japan, to tutor the young Crown Prince Akihito in English, Elizabeth Gray Vining ventured in 1946, with courage and a creative mind, into a strange land, poverty-stricken after a disastrous war, and into a court hedged about with ceremonial restrictions.
This book is the record of her four years at the Imperial Court, where she helped to guide the young Prince from a chubby child to a poised, attractive youth with high sense of responsibility
ISBN:
Format: hardcover
Pages: 320
Book Condition: Good
Defects: has a name stick inside cover
Dust Jacket: Acceptable-Poor / has tearing along edges and at cover creases
Copyright: 1952 by Elizabeth Gray Vining
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
Edition: Christian Herald's Family Bookshelf Selection
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