North Point Press, Mar-87. Hardcover. Very Good. NICE BOOK! MODERATE WEAR ON DUSTJACKET, LIGHTLY AGED, NO MARKING IN TEXT. Publishers Weekly: Sometimes as delicate as haiku, at others samurai-like in their robustness, these 17 stories cry out for a translator with a sensitive ear and a taste for words. But here the plodding prose, the use and reuse of throwaway phrases, the clumsy dialogue contrive to turn each shyly articulated episode into a banal account and obscure the distinctiveness of the voice and setting,'' complained PW. (May) ""Library Journal: Drawing often and openly from personal experience, Shiga popularized the first-person ``confessional'' mode of narration in Japan. These 17 stories date from 1904-45 and reveal, despite a stilted, graceless translation, Shiga's delicate imagination and acute insight into human foibles. Some explore death (``At Kinosaki,'' ``The House by the Moat''), interweaving lyric variations drawn from nature and from human experience. Violence and cruelty (``The Razor,'' ``Han's Crime'') testify to the exhaustion of the human spirit. Yet it is in his stories about the artist and adultery that Shiga is at his most tender and most pungent; ``Kuniko,'' which fictionalizes the terrible and inevitable resolution of his adultery, is Shiga's most powerful and gloomy statement about the conflict between life and art. Arthur Waldhorn, English Dept., City Coll . , CUNY ISBN: 0865472602. (more information)

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San Francisco, California: North Point Press. Hardcover. 0865472602 Fine/Fine DJ, price clipped (Edition:First Edition) All books are packaged with care to protect the corners. Ships same or next bussness day. . Very Good. 1987. First Edition. (more information)

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San Francisco, California: North Point Press. Hardcover. 0865472602 Fine/Fine DJ, price clipped (Edition:First Edition) All books are packaged with care to protect the corners. Ships same or next bussness day. . Very Good. 1987. First Edition. (more information)

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San Francisco: San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987, 1987. Hb. VG/VG. 173 pp. Trans. by Lane Dunlop. Light wear. DJ: rubbing.. Hb. VG/VG. (more information)

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North Point Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Like New Hardcover in Very Good DJ. 1987. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. DJ shows minor yellowing of top edge of flaps. An excellent copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day. (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: North Point Press, 1987. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. ISBN: 0-86547-260-2. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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North Point Press, 1987. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. (more information)

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SAN FRANCISCO: North Point Press, 1987. Dark brown cover that is in excellent condition with immaculate pages for your reading enjoyment. The pictorial DJ itself is in very good condition with only some minor surface rub. This book houses selections that span 40 years range from the "fablelike opening story to the psychologically complex." . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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San Francisco: North Point Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0865472602 . Translated from the Japanese by Lane Dunlop. First American edition. Some light foxing along the bottom edge, else very near fine in a very near fine dust jacket. . (more information)

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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. First edition. Fine copy in Fine Dust Wrapper [with one pin-point dent].. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. (more information)

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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. First edition. Fine copy in Fine Dust Wrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. (more information)

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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. Brown cloth. (2), (xiv), (175) pp. Fine in fine jacket. A collection of stories by one of Japan's most important 20th century short story writers.. First edition in English. Hardcover. Octavo. (more information)

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San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1987.. Brown cloth. Fine copy. Jacket lightly but not very noticably rubbed, else fine. Naoya (1883-1971) was an important Japanese writer, a master of the short story.. First edition in English. Hardcover. Octavo. (more information)

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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987 175 pages, small 8vo, brown cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Serving the antiquarian and used book world since 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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SAN FRANCISCO:: NORTH POINT PRESS,. 1987.. First U.S. Edition, First printing. FINE IN FINE DJ.. (more information)

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Gift quality. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Ships daily. (FIC-ASIA)New (more information)

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