New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. 179 pp. Tan and black boards with gold embossed title on cover and spine; minor fading along the top edges of the boards. Black pictorial jacket with colorful illustration has some wear along the bottom and fading along the top inside jacket flaps. "In this brilliant, nightmarish, savagely funny novel... we follow the bereft and astonished husband in his desperate search for the vanished woman, as he pursues the mysterious ambulance to a vast underground hospital, as he struggles to find his bearings in a system so complex that patients have to hire agents to help them deal with it". First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo.

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Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist, and was also widely known as a dramatist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been best sellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes , Kangaroo Notebook , The Ark Sakura , The Face of Another , The Box Man , and The Ruined Map.

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Bookseller: The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 029739
Title: Secret Rendezvous
Author: Kobo Abe
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0394503724
ISBN 13: 9780394503721
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1979
Keywords: Rendezvous Japanese Japan Mystery Comedy
Size: Octavo

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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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