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Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
by Miyazawa, Kenji
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 4770021844
- ISBN 13
- 9784770021847
- Seller
-
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good-. First paperback edition. Translated from the Japanese by John Bester, this is a compilation of twenty-four of the best stories of Kenji Miyazawa, ranging from cautionary tales to small prose poems, from social satire to unmistakable tragedy. Black soft cover with white titling, in a dust jacket illustrated by Keisuke Serizawa, text illustrated with small black and white illustrations on title pages of each story, 273 pages. Dust jacket, which is price-clipped, has sun fading to spine and adjacent edges, light shelf wear and light creases, text block edges slightly darkened, book is clean, bright and tight - an attractive copy. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Details
- Bookseller
- Black Sheep Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016409
- Title
- Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
- Author
- Miyazawa, Kenji
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 4770021844
- ISBN 13
- 9784770021847
- Publisher
- Kodansha International
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- JAPAN, FABLE, SHORT STORIES, ASIA, FICTION, CHILDREN,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia;
Terms of Sale
Black Sheep Books
Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
About the Seller
Black Sheep Books
Biblio member since 2004
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
About Black Sheep Books
We are an independent, locally-owned shop dedicated to books and the people who love them. Here you will find two floors packed with volumes of enduring value, including familiar favourites, contemporary fiction, guides, books of local interest, and non-fiction titles covering everything from outer space to inner peace. We also have marine charts, art cards, unique prints, hand-crafted bags, and many other intriguing items. Located at Grace Point Square in the Village of Ganges, close to marinas and Salt Spring\'s renowned Saturday Market, we are open every day except Christmas and New Year\'s. If you want to pick-up a book you saw online, please call or e-mail ahead as many of our listings are kept in a separate storage facility.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Edges
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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