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The Heike Story
by Yoshikawa, Eiji; Uramatsu, Fuki Wooyenaka (trans)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated. Red cloth spine over white cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine & decorated in black & blindstamp; under pictorial dust jacket with $4.95 price intact, 627 pp. + colophon (note on type.) Very minor wear to extremities of jacket. Interestingly, the DJ flap mentions the 1953 Japanese film "Gate of Hell" but other than similar source material, I don't know of any direct relation between the two. A lovely collectible copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002436
- Title
- The Heike Story
- Author
- Yoshikawa, Eiji; Uramatsu, Fuki Wooyenaka (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- japan kyoto japanese literature in translation epic medieval
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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