Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata (Translated from Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair to Good/Good
- Seller
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Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 140mm x 200mm. Clipped jacket has moderate general wear and some foxing. No tears. Protected in Mylar cover (not taped). Heavy foxing to edges of page-block, preliminaries and last couple of pages. Text clean with just a very few spots to margins. Binding tight. 144pp.
Synopsis
Thousand Cranes is a novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. This was the first time any Japanese author won this prize.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lectioz Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019056
- Title
- Thousand Cranes
- Author
- Yasunari Kawabata (Translated from Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 140mm x 200mm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction : Vintage & Collectable;
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About the Seller
Lectioz Books
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Gloucester, New South Wales
About Lectioz Books
Welcome to Lectioz. We are an internet-based bookseller located in Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia.The majority of our inventory is non-fiction, with a bias towards the Arts - in all its forms. In addition we stock books on Australian History, Natural History, Transport, Exploration, Science and many other subjects
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- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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.