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Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
by HEARN, Lafcadio
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo. 4.5 x 7.25 in. 296 pp. Very good in the original olive-green cloth boards, with some tanning on the spine and general signs of shelf wear. The front hinge is cracked at the title page. Otherwise, the binding is firm and the pages are clean.
Synopsis
Kokoro (こゝろ, or in post-war orthography こころ) is a novel by the Japanese author Natsume Sōseki. It was first published in 1914 in serial form in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shinbun. While the title literally means "heart", the word contains shades of meaning, and can be translated as "the heart of things" or "feeling".
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- Bookseller
- Bagatelle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4804
- Title
- Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
- Author
- HEARN, Lafcadio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1896
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Asheville, North Carolina
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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...
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