Kokoro
by Soseki, Natsume
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Regenery, 1957. 248pp. Blue cloth boards, titles on spine in gold, on red background. Binding tight, spine straight, slight wear to upper front corner. Previous owner's name on FFEP in blue ink. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. White dust jacket with pale blue and black titles and image. List of Regenery titles on back panel. Chipping to spine head and foot. Very small nick to front edge of jacket spine. Wear to edges, but jacket is intact (3.00 original price), not price clipped. Some darkening to white background. The first American edition of Soseki's novel, a major text in the move toward western interest in fiction from the country. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
Kokoro (こゝろ or in post-war orthography こころ) is a novel by 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". The work deals with the transition from the Japanese Meiji society to the modern era, by exploring the friendship between a young man and an older man he calls "Sensei".
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032586
- Title
- Kokoro
- Author
- Soseki, Natsume
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Regenery
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Natsume Soseki, Kokoro, Japanese Literature, First Edition
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- FFEP
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- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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