Presentation copy of this novel by the 20th century Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue (1907-1991), signed and inscribed by him to American photographer Carl Mydans (1907-2004), who is notable for his documentation of World War II in the South Pacific and Europe. In 1941, while on...
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Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1984. First edition. Octavo; 333pp.; black cloth with red titles and panel design, in slipcase. A fine, as new copy in a very good slipcase, which lacks the original tissue paper covering, and shows partial fading to the spine of the red bellyband....
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Shimoda, Kageki. Lions with Pale-Blue Wings. Tokyo: Senshu University Ikuyu Parent Association, 2010. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated papered boards, dust jacket. 8vo. 432pp. A very fine copy in like jacket. A novel depicting the early lives of the four founders of Tokyo's Senshu University by a...
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Ueda, MakotoModern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. viii+ 451pp, indexed. Black cloth, silver spine titles. Very light bumping to top corners, a touch of fading at base of boards, else fine in a very good (+) jacket with two short closed tears and a...
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Ikenouchi, NobuyoshiExplanation of No Plays: A Vade Mecum for Spectators
Translated into English by Y. Negishi. [Tokyo]: Sunjusha, [1925]. Octavo, wraps. Four hole side-stitch, bound with white string. 11 unpaginated black and white plates with tissue paper + 39pp. Signed on the title page by the translator, Timothy Yoshitaro Negishi, a long-tenured professor at St....
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