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Kafka on the Shore
by Murakami, Haruki
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American Edition Stated. In beige boards with blue spine and gilt. Ding to top rear corner and some wear to edges, other corners and spine ends. Interior clean and binding solid. Jacket is unclipped with edgewear and some rubbing.
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$50.00
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Rasemon [Rashōmon/羅生門]. The stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Leningrad, Khudozhestvennaya literature, 1936 .Limited to 10 300 copies. First Akutagawa's book edition in Russia. This short story collection includes: Rasho Gate (羅生門/Rashōmon; 1915), The Handkerchief (手巾/Hankechi; 1916), Monkey (猿/Saru; 1916, no translation into English), Fortune (運/Un; 1917), Mensura Zoili (1917), The Story of a Head That Fell Off (首が落ちた話/ Kubi ga ochita hanashi; 1918), Kesa and Moritō (袈裟と盛遠/Kesa to Moritō; 1918), Hell Screen (地狱变/Jigoku...
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$450.00
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
by Kenzaburō Ōe (author); John Nathan (translator, introduction)
First Evergreen paperback edition, stated First Printing. Tight binding. The Introduction has some marginal notes and underlining. The rest of the book appears unmarked. Minor wear to edges/corners.
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$11.29
Grass For His Pillow
by Hearn, Lian
Sydney: Hodder. 2003. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 353 pages. Tales of the Otori - Book 2. An enchanting tale set in medieval Japan. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$9.74
RAIN IN THE WIND. FOUR STORIES
by MARUYA, Saiichi
Tokyo/New York: Koansha International, (1990). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A collection of 4 short stories by this Japanese writer described by Anthony Burgess as "a revealer of inner essences, a universal voice."
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$25.00
Chin Chin Kobakama. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 25
by Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn. Story by Suzuki Kason or Arai Yoshimune (uncredited)
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. N.d, circa 1903. Probably first edition. Unpaginated, twelve folded-over leaves, including cover. Larger format, 7.5 by 5.25 inches, or 19 by 13.5 cm. Probably the best tale ever built around toothpicks! A fairy tale of the supernatural retribution meted out to lazy women, with a second shorter variant of the same story included as well. This copy has particularly crisp and bright color! Light soiling to covers, and some minor waviness where fabric dinged by bottom edge.
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$200.00
Amrita
by Banana Yoshimoto (author); Russell F. Wasden (translator)
Interior pages clean and unmarked; heavy tanning around the edges and with light to moderate foxing. Previous owner's name and date written on page before the Prologue. Spine is creased and a bit slanted, but the binding is still firm.
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$8.98
Wonderful Fool
by Endo, Shusaku and Francis Mathy(Translator)
New York: Harper & Row/Kodansha, 1983. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition stated with full number line 10-1. In beige boards with dings to a few corners and purple spine cloth with silver foil. Small pale mark to ffep, otherwise clean with tight binding. Comes with two jackets which are price-clipped, one is well worn, the other just light wear at head of spine.
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$15.00
Japanese Aesthetics and Culture A Reader
by Hume, Nancy G. (Edited by)
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 1995. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy - appears unread. Lengthy Introduction by the Editor. Includes Glossary, Annotated Bibliography and Index. xx, 378 pages. Essays representing seminal thought in literary, cultural, and aesthetics critcism. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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$22.72
Goodbye Tsugumi
by Banana Yoshimoto (author); Michael Emmerich (translator)
Minor wear to edges and corners, but clean and unmarked. Firm binding.
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$11.29
The Changeling
by Kenzaburo Oe (author); Deborah Boliver Boehm (translator)
Ex-library book with typical stamps, marks and stickers.. Mylar-protected dust jacket is glued to the boards, but in good shape otherwise. Interior pages clean and unmarked.
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$14.29
Botchan(Master Darling)
by Soseki, Natsume and Yasotaro Morri (Translator)
Tokyo: Ogawa Seibundo, 1918. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. First Edition in English. Stated 1918 to title page with 1919 on cover which is standard to this edition. All further printings show year published. No endpapers issued for this copy, so possibly different state or early printing from same year of publication. In red cloth blind stamped to covers and with gilt to type and design motif on spine. Tanning to text block from paper used. Small pale stain to rear board and a few stay...
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$400.00
The Manyoshu: One Thousand Poems Selected and Translated from the Japanese
by TAKI, Seiichi (Chairman) et al
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten for the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1948. Third impression. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Quarto, 502pp., illustrated with 5 plates (1 folding). A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in the publisher's pale blue cloth. Touch of foxing to the edges. In a near fine dust jacket, mildly toned. Scarce in jacket. A tipped-in slip of paper at rear indicates that this is the third impression, issued in 1948.
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$200.00
A History of Japanese Literature The First Thousand Years
by Kato Shuichi, translated by David Chibbett
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1981. Trade Paperback. 0870114913 . A Fine Trade Paperback copy , a very clean, tight copy with a solid binding. "In the first volume, the author traces the development of Japanese literature from the 7th to the mid-16th century, emphasizing the historical and social context of the literary works discussed, and the relationship between Japanese works and Western and Chinese literature. "; 12mo - over 6¾" -...
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$14.16
Five Modern No Plays
by MISHIMA, Yukio
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo, 198pp. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, with a small area of scuffing to the to the rear board. In a very good dust jacket with some small chips and tears at the extremities, and gently sunned on the spine. A marvelous example, SIGNED by Mishima in both English and Japanese characters on the front free endpaper, and quite rare thus. "Five Modern No Plays" was one of the earliest of Mishima's...
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$3,500.00
Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy tales
by James, Grace
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910. gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. Warwick Gobel. Quarto (7" x 10"), navy gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. All edges dyed blue.280, (1)pp plus publisher's ad leaf. Forty stunning illustrations by Warwick Gobel tipped onto heavy brown stock illustrate the 38 tales. The plates are unpaginated. Slight wear at the extremities. Small dampstain on the back cover, lower left which can be seen as faint in the pictures. Endpapers toned. "These tales and legends have been...
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$395.00
Modern Japanese Literature, an Anthology
by Keene, Donald
London: Thames & Hudson. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1956. Hardback. Illustrated blk d/jkt, clipped; light wear to edges, with tiny losses; internal repair to head of spine. Blk boards, bright; gilt titling + decoration, bright. Owners' names on front pastedown and front endpaper. An anthology covering 1868 - 1956. ; 8vo (6" x 9"); 440 pages .
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$31.50
Foreign Studies
by Endo, Shusaku
New York: Linden Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A couple of tiny spots to bottom page ends.
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$10.00
First Person Singular
by Haruki Murakami (author); Philip Gabriel (translator)
Minor wear to the surface and edges of the dust jacket. Previous owner's name and number stamped on the front end paper. No other markings.
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$12.98
Japanese Fairy Tales. [The Boy Who Drew Cats, The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling, Chin Chin Kobakama, The Goblin Spider, The Fountain of Youth
by Hearn, Lafcadio
Cloth Chemise, with bone stays or fasteners. FIne. With the original tissue sleeves well-preserved! N.d., but the last of the titles, "The Fountain of Youth", was issued in 1922, and so we would date the set to the early 1920s. 19.5 by 14 cm.
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$2,500.00
Scandal
by Endo, Shusaku
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1988. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dust jacket has a couple of small closed tears & is now protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Translated by Van C. Gessel. 261 pages. First published in Japan in 1986. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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$19.47
Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan
by John W. Hall and Marius B. Jansen (editors); Joseph R. Strayer (introduction)
First Princeton Paperback edition. Tight binding; interior pages clean and unmarked. Light surface and corner wear.
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$22.95
The Kyogen Book: An Anthology of Japanese Classical Comedies
by Kenny, Don (compiled by)
The Japan Times, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 245 pages. English translations of the texts from 30 plays. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback), in a near fine dust jacket with minor edge wear. Inscribed by Kenny to the previous owner on the half-title.
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$93.75
Penance
by Kanae Minato (author); Philip Gabriel (translator)
Tight, clean, unmarked copy; small diagonal crease on the top right corner of the cover. No other major flaws.
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$11.29
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pages are clean and unmarked, but slightly age tanned. Minor wear to the surface and edges.
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$7.98
