Headquarters Western Defense Command & Fourth Army Printing Office: 1943. Hardcover. Large octavo. Rubbing around the gilt titles on boards and spine. Shelf wear (with one exposing bump) along the top and bottoms of the boards. A bit of staining and foxing on the text block edges. Toning and small stains on the endpapers. Dots and smudges of soiling here and there on the leaves throughout. This original printing was confined to ten copies because the report was classified. This copy was printed for the U.S. War Department. Note the unique gilt lettering on the lower right corner of the boards: "General George C. Marshall: Chief of Staff U.S. Army." 618 pages. Very good. 
 
From the library of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James Houston. Houston's business card from when he was in the army is between the endpapers. The authors used this book while researching Farewell to Manzanar, the classic memoir of growing up in the camps. Exhaustive reporting of the logistics and finances of the evacuation, construction, and management. There are more than fifty pages of photographs of life in the camps, maps (three insert fold-outs), and charts of population statistics. An on-paper effort so the army could prove to the public that the relocation and exclusion of American citizens based on their Japanese ancestry was necessary and efficient. 
 
"Over a period of less than 90 operating days during the spring and summer of 1942, 110,442 persons of Japanese ancestry were evacuated from the West Coast first to temporary assembly centers and thence to Relocation Centers in the interior."