World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
by Keene, Donald
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large thick octavo, plum colored cloth spine over charcoal grey paper covered boards. 606pp. indcluding biographical note on author, including extensive index and glossary of Japanese terms and Japanese and Chinese names. Donald Keene, one of the twentieth centuries most distinguished Western scholars of Japanese literature produces here his most ambitious work on the period leading up to the Meiji restoration of Western influence on Japanese literature. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a very crisp, sharp, tight, dust jacket. with just a few small flecks of soil and one or two tiny edge nicks. Fine in near fine dust jacket. A handsome copy..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07104
- Title
- World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
- Author
- Keene, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- KEENE, DONALD, JAPAN, JAPANESE, FICTION, LITERATURE, BELLE LETTRES, HISTORY, CRITICISM, CRITICAL, SCHOLARLY, HISTORICAL, PRE-MODERN, TOKUGAWA, EDO, KYOTO, NIPPONESE, STORY, NOVEL, POETRY, POEM, HAIKAI, WAKA, DRAMA, THEATER, PLAY, DRAMATIST, KABUKI, NO,
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