The Lake by Kawabata, Yasunari - 1990

Kodansha America, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Kodansha America, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Kodansha International / Dist by Harper & Row. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. Dust jacket shows minimal wear. Pages are crisp and clean with no writing. Binding is tight.

Kodansha International / Dist by Harper & Row, 1974-06. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Kodansha International / Dist by Harper & Row, 1974-06-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap.

(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.

Kodansha International, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. (1st) Slightly smaller book, gray-grained boards, dark red and black lettering very fine on spine, pale green inside covers and adjacent end papers, 160 pages. DJ beneath mylar, glossy dark gray background with abstract illustration of lake, b/w photo of author at back left. DJ top tips are very slightly bumped, very tiny wear spot at bottom front tip, tiny tear with wear at spine top left. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

New York: Kodansha International, 1974. ~Dustwrapper slightly faded on spine but unclipped. No ownership marks. Top edges slightly toned. . 1st edn, 2nd impr. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 160pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

New York:: Kodansha International,, 1974.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, his is an incurable longing that drives him to shadow nameless women in the streetand hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream-the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break suddenly into… Read More

Kodansha International / Dist by Harper & Row, 1974-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!