Morley Japan

Morley, John D. Pictures from the Water Trade : Adventures of a Westerner in Japan, New York, NY, U.S.A. Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated 1985
ISBN: 0871130173 Near Fine

Hard cover with gold paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, gold printing on spine, is in NEAR FINE condition, with minor rubbing to spine end and minor impression on front edge. Brodart-wrapped DJ, NOT price-clipped, is GOOD, with minor rubbing to upper spine end and a 1" x 1/4" piece missing from bottom edge. Like Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia, Pictures from the Water Trade is a fascinating odyssey through an alien culture -- one that outsiders rarely penetrate. John David Morley came to Japan to work and study, already well versed in the Japanese languge, through not in its nearly indefinable subtleties. His chance meeting in a Tokyo cabaret with Ichimonji, an exuberant and witty hedonist, gave him his true entree into Japanese life. For three years, with Ichimonji as his ebullient guide, Morley explored Japan's domimonde and learned the mysteries of "the water trade" --- a Japanese expression for all those establishments devoted to the uninhibited pursuit of pleasure, both alcoholic and sexual, that exist marginally within the law but lie outside of "respectable" life. It was in a bar in a xenophobic village outside Tokyo that Morley found the beautiful and mysterious Mariko, whose way of combining unabashed sexuality with maddening evasiveness and fear of censure gave their affair, the highlight of this book, an extraordinary flavor. First American Edition Stated Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Gold Paper-Covered Boards

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MORLEY, JOHN DAVID. Pictures From The Water Trade: Adventures Of A Westerner In Japan. The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston: 1985. ISBN: 0871130173

259 pages. A fascinating odyssey hrough an alien culture - one that outsiders rarely penetrate. Explaores Japan's demimonde including the mysteries of "the water trade" - a Japanese expresion for all those establishments devoted to uninhibited pleasure, both alcoholic and sexual, that exist marginally within the law but lie outside of "respectable" life. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition.

[SW: (Key Words: Social Life, Travel, Customs, Japan, Alcohol, Sex, John David Morley).]

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Morley, John David: Pictures from the Water Trade: An Englishman in Japan, London Deutsch 1985
ISBN: 0-233-97703-1 Very Good

A tale of an English writer's journey into the enigma of Japan. First Edition Very Good Hardcover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Dobbs, Kildare (editor) (Sir Edward Belcher; Sir George Simpson; Sara Jeannette Duncan; James de Mille; C. T. Currelly; Stephen Leacock; Morley Callaghan; John Glassco; Hugh MacLennan; Mordecai Richler; Gwendolyn MacEwen; Ethel Wilson; Charles Ritchie): AWAY FROM HOME: Fiji; Siberia; P and O Liner; Rome; Sinai; London; Paris; New York; Egypt; Casablanca; Tanganyika; Mexico; Leningrad; Rio De Janeiro; Cornwall; Morocco; Greece; South Seas; Calcutta; Santa Barbara; Portugal; Greenland; Japan; Darjeeling, Toronto Deneau Publishers 1988
ISBN: 0888791283 Very Good+

326 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Subtitled Canadian Writers in Exotic Places, this anthology contains: Fiji by Sir Edward Belcher; Siberia by Sir George Simpson; P and O Liner by Sara Jeannette Duncan; Rome by James de Mille; Sinai by C. T. Currelly; London by Stephen Leacock; Paris by Morley Callaghan; Paris by John Glassco; New York by Hugh MacLennan; Egypt by Ethel Wilson; London by Charles Ritchie; Casablanca by A. M. Klein; Tanganyika by J. C. Cairns; Mexico by Malcolm Lowry; Leningrad by Diana Goldsborough; Rio De Janeiro by Garry Marchant; Cornwall by Norman Levine; Morocco by Kildare Dobbs; Greece by Gwendolyn MacEwen; South Seas by George Woodcock; Calcutta by Clark Blaise; Calcutta by Bharati Mukherjee; Santa Barbara by Brian Moore; Portugal by Harry Bruce; Greenland by Jim Christy; Japan by Loral Dean; and Darjeeling by Jerry Tutunjian. Scans are available for all books. First Softcover Edition Trade Paperback 8vo

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