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Quaint Stories of Samurais
by Saikaku Ibara
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Imprimerie Darantiere, Dijon, 1923. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/Fair. SAIKAKU IBARA. Quaint Stories of Samurais, Dijon: Imprimerie Darantiere, 1923. Octavo, edition of 500, pp. 111, 1 (colophon), card covers with dust jacket. Love stories among samurai and their page boys, in Ken Sato's translation of Ibara's 17th-century work "The glorious stories of Homosexuality." The characters are deeply sentimental, with a tendency to fall ill when their true love seems unattainable. Condition of this book: Tears in dust jacket spine, front hinge split, very clean, no foxing. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Japan; 1920s; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54340. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54340
- Title
- Quaint Stories of Samurais
- Author
- Saikaku Ibara
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Imprimerie Darantiere
- Place of Publication
- Dijon
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Erotica; Japan; 1920s; Antiquarian & Rare. Saikaku Ibara Quaint Stories of Samurais
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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