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Japanese Literature

Japanese Literature

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The Master Of Go

The Master Of Go

by Yasunari Kawabata

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Childhood Years

Childhood Years

by Tanizaki, Junichiro

Scandal

Scandal

by Endo, Shusaku

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Rear top corner lightly bumped, 'star' stamp to bottom page ends. Light edgewear to jacket with crease to front flap and 1/4"" closed tear to top of front panel.
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£8.10
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

by Kenzaburō Ōe (author); John Nathan (translator, introduction)

First Evergreen paperback edition, stated First Printing. Tight binding. The Introduction has some marginal notes and underlining. The rest of the book appears unmarked. Minor wear to edges/corners.
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£9.14
Sabu: Story.

Sabu: Story.

by Inui, Tomiko

This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. Moskva, Detskaya Literatura, 1974.Limited to 300 000 copies. The one and only edition. The story about Sabu, a Japanese boy, was written by Japanese children's book writer Tomiko Inui (1924-2002), who winning a lot of prizes including the Mainishi Publishing Culture Award and the Akaitori Award for Children's Literature. She visited the USSR in 1963 and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen prize in the following... Read more about this item
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£121.42
The Manyoshu: One Thousand Poems Selected and Translated from the Japanese

The Manyoshu: One Thousand Poems Selected and Translated from the Japanese

by TAKI, Seiichi (Chairman) et al

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten for the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1948. Third impression. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Quarto, 502pp., illustrated with 5 plates (1 folding). A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in the publisher's pale blue cloth. Touch of foxing to the edges. In a near fine dust jacket, mildly toned. Scarce in jacket. A tipped-in slip of paper at rear indicates that this is the third impression, issued in 1948.
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£161.90
Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century; compiled and edited by Donald Keene

Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century; compiled and edited by Donald Keene

by Keene, Donald (compiler, editor)

London: Allen & Unwin, 1955. First UK ed. Hardcover. Fine in very good(+) spine-sunned, price-clipped, and lightly edge-chipped original jacket. Quarto in pale yellow, red-lettered jacket; 444 p., illustrations 22 cm. Original typed invoice to Dr. J. Steinhardt from B. H. Blackwell Ltd, dated 1956, laid in. The more uncommon UK first edition of this important and first anthology of Japanese literature in English. Contains poetry and prose. See photos for book's table of contents ¶ "Donald Lawrence... Read more about this item
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£55.05
1Q84

1Q84

by Murakami, Haruki

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First United States Edition stated. In pictorial boards. Light dings to top rear corner and heel of spine, otherwise clean with tight binding and light edgewear. Delicate vellum jacket is unclipped with light wear.
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£24.28
An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Pages are clean and unmarked, but slightly age tanned. Minor wear to the surface and edges.
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£6.46
Beauty and Sadness: A Novel.

Beauty and Sadness: A Novel.

by [Japanese Literature] Kawabata, Yasunari

New York:: Knopf,, 1975.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before. Otoko is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continues to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover. This is a work of... Read more about this item
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£52.62
Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature

Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature

by THE KOKUSAI BUNKA SHINKOKAI (ED)

Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good minus Book shows rubbing to all edges, corners bumped. Hardcover, no dustwrapper.
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£40.48
Chin Chin Kobakama. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 25

Chin Chin Kobakama. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 25

by Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn. Story by Suzuki Kason or Arai Yoshimune (uncredited)

Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. N.d, circa 1903. Probably first edition. Unpaginated, twelve folded-over leaves, including cover. Larger format, 7.5 by 5.25 inches, or 19 by 13.5 cm. Probably the best tale ever built around toothpicks! A fairy tale of the supernatural retribution meted out to lazy women, with a second shorter variant of the same story included as well. This copy has particularly crisp and bright color! Light soiling to covers, and some minor waviness where fabric dinged by bottom edge.
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£161.90
Coin Locker Babies; [by] Ryū Murakami ; translated by Stephen Snyder

Coin Locker Babies; [by] Ryū Murakami ; translated by Stephen Snyder

by Murakami, Ryu

Tokyo ; New York: Kodansha International: Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America, 1998. First paperback ed., first printing (full number line). Paperback. Fine in fine jacket. Small octavo pocketbook-format in color dust jacket (white spine); 393 pages ; 24 cm. English translation of: Koin Rokkā Beibīzu. Japan's Modern Writers. [series]. "The story of two babies abandoned in a locker at a railroad station. They grow up to represent the darker side of Japanese youth, lacking... Read more about this item
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£55.05
The Bridegroom was a Dog.

The Bridegroom was a Dog.

by Yoko Tawada

New York, NY Kodansha International , 1998. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Paperback Edition: First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only minor indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities; faint crease at the lower front panel. Binding shows barely discernible lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 165pp. Line Drawings by Ryuji Watanabe. Translated by... Read more about this item
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£7.14
Botchan

Botchan

by Sōseki Natsume (author); Umeji Sasaki (translator); Stephen Kohl (introduction)

Light dust staining on the front and back covers, but nothing overly bad. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Firm binding.
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£9.14
The Lake

The Lake

by KAWABATA, Yasunari

(New York): Kodansha International, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Reiko Tsukumura. Owner's name penned on front fly, page fine edges lightly foxed, still near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Kawabata was the first Japanese Nobel Laureate for literature in 1968.
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£20.24
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination

by Rampo, Edogawa

Tokyo & Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. First Edition/Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Extremely scarce in cloth with jacket. By the trailblazing Japanese mystery writer, Edogawa Rampo whose pen name was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe. A big influence on popular culture, he inspired anime, manga, online games and movies. In pictorial paper covered boards with bright gilt to black spine. Light wear to spine ends. Sharp corners, clean interior and solid binding. Jacket is price-clipped at... Read more about this item
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£121.42
Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan

Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan

by John W. Hall and Marius B. Jansen (editors); Joseph R. Strayer (introduction)

First Princeton Paperback edition. Tight binding; interior pages clean and unmarked. Light surface and corner wear.
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£18.58
Lion Cross Point

Lion Cross Point

by Ono, Masatsugu

San Francisco: Two Lines Press, 2018. First Edition/Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Unread. Nice copy.
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£8.10
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

by Haruki Murakami (author); Philip Gabriel (translator)

Clean, unmarked copy, with moderate wear to the corners, especially the lower right, which is a bit dog-eared and creased. Binding is firm.
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£8.10
Killing Commendatore

Killing Commendatore

by Murakami, Haruki

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First US Edition stated. In pictorial boards. Ding to top of front board with a few marks/spots to page ends. Jacket is unclipped with faint moisture stain to inside of jacket at top of spine and part of rear panel.
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£12.14
Geisha, A Life

Geisha, A Life

by Mineko Iwasaki (author) with Rande Brown

First Edition/printing with complete number line. Thin black line drawn on bottom edge. No other markings. Tight copy with firm binding; Minimal wear to the dust jacket.
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£9.70
Grass For His Pillow

Grass For His Pillow

by Hearn, Lian

Sydney: Hodder. 2003. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 353 pages. Tales of the Otori - Book 2. An enchanting tale set in medieval Japan. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£7.93
Penance

Penance

by Kanae Minato (author); Philip Gabriel (translator)

Tight, clean, unmarked copy; small diagonal crease on the top right corner of the cover. No other major flaws.
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£9.14
Japanese Aesthetics and Culture A Reader

Japanese Aesthetics and Culture A Reader

by Hume, Nancy G. (Edited by)

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 1995. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy - appears unread. Lengthy Introduction by the Editor. Includes Glossary, Annotated Bibliography and Index. xx, 378 pages. Essays representing seminal thought in literary, cultural, and aesthetics critcism. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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£18.50
The Fall of Japan

The Fall of Japan

by William Craig

First published in 1967. First Galahad Books Edition (1997). Clean, unmarked copy; minor surface/edge wear to the dust jacket.
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£14.55
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