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After the Banquet
by Yukio Mishima
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Trace edge soiling, spine ends gently pushed and spine cocked slightly forward, else bright and about Near Fine. Jacket is uncli
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First American Edition, stated. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Blue paper-covered boards decoratively stamped in red backed with black cloth, lettering and decorative stamping in gilt and red to spine. Publisher's red topstain. 271pp. Trace edge soiling, spine ends gently pushed and spine cocked slightly forward, else bright and about Near Fine. Jacket is unclipped but missing most of the rear panel in a large open tear, rest of jacket present but with a few short closed tears about edges and a toned spine; Good only.. Jacket by Fumi Komatsu. Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene.
Synopsis
With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking insight into the nature of political and domestic warfare, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition.With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking insight into the nature of political and domestic warfare, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the middle-aged entrepreneur falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife.In time, however, the restless Kazu decides to resurrect her husband's political career. In doing so, she embarks on a series of compromises and evasions that will force her to choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. With its subtle ambiguities and its complex, vibrant heroine, After the Banquet is a magnificent novel.
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- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2341
- Title
- After the Banquet
- Author
- Yukio Mishima
- Illustrator
- Jacket by Fumi Komatsu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Blue paper-covered boards decoratively stamped in red backed with black cloth, lett
- Book Condition
- Used - Trace edge soiling, spine ends gently pushed and spine cocked slightly forward, else bright and about Near Fine. Jacket is uncli
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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