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Fires on the Plain
by Shohei Ooka
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (+), light fray to edges of spine, sharp corners, brigh and clean save toning to top edge of boards./Good clipped jacket, heavy rubbing to parts resulting in exposure of unfinished paper below mostly near spine on panels, light s
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition, stated. Hardcover 8vo, quarter black cloth over forest green boards, decorative graphic stamped to front board, publisher logo stamped to back, red lettering stamped to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. 246 pp. Very Good (+), light fray to edges of spine, sharp corners, brigh and clean save toning to top edge of boards./Good clipped jacket, heavy rubbing to parts resulting in exposure of unfinished paper below mostly near spine on panels, light soiling and edgewear otherwise. Jacket Design by Muni Leiblien. First American Edition of this groundbreaking novel depicting the psychological toll of war, drawn from the author's experiences in WWII and acknowledged as paving the way for later works on the matter in the Japanese literary canon.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 592
- Title
- Fires on the Plain
- Author
- Shohei Ooka
- Illustrator
- Jacket Design by Muni Leiblien
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover 8vo, quarter black cloth over forest green boards, decorative graphic stamped to front board, publisher logo stamped t
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (+), light fray to edges of spine, sharp corners, brigh and clean save toning to top edge of boards.
- Jacket Condition
- Good clipped jacket, heavy rubbing to parts resulting in exposure of unfinished paper below mostly near spine on panels, light s
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Japan, World War II, Japanese Literature, Phillipines, War
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About the Seller
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Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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