Youth and Other Stories (Shaps Library of Translations) - Hardcover

SOME JAPANESE PORTRAITS (First edition - first impression)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with 'First edition, 1978' on the printer's page. With illustrations (line drawings) within the text by Motoichi Izawa. ***A near fine copy in maroon cloth-covered boards with cream titles to the spine. The boards are clean with no marks or damage - just light creasing to the top corners. Head and tail of spine uncreased. No bumps or creases. No reading lean to the binding. Page block edges nice and clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine printed dustwrapper, which has a UK £12.95 price sticker over the original US $ price on the front flap. The dustwrapper has very few faults apart from some slight fading around the spine area. No creases, chips or tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***228 pages. 217mm x 158mm. ***'These twenty-one essays form a distinguished gallery of Japanese writers selected by one of the world's leading authorities on Japanese literature. The dry biographical approach is shunned and the emphasis is placed on the larger issues that derive from these author's lives and works. A few of the men and women included are well known in the West: the fifteenth-century Zen priest and poet Ikkyu, for example. But the majority are great or near-great authors about whom nothing has so far appeared in English. The selection was made with a view to showing the richness and variety of Japanese literature in each of the four periods discussed: the fifteenth century, the sixteenth century, the Kinsei Period (160-1867) and the Meij Period (1868-1912).' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, published by Kodansha International, in its original dustwrapper, in near fine condition. A very uncommon title and particularly hard to find in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Artikel-Nr. 9244

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