Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
by Hearn, Lafcadio
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About This Item
London: Gay & Bird. 1903. Hardcover. 12mo (7" x 4.75"), red cloth, title-author gilt on cover and spine. [vi], 388 pp., illus. title. CONDITION: Good, wear to extremities and sunned spine, otherwise fine. Later edition. The first American and English editions appeared in 1896.
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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- Title
- Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
- Author
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Gay & Bird. 1903
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- 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....
- Sunned
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...