London: Peter Owen, 1968. First UK edition, following the American first of 1957. Vi, 240pp. Small 8vo. Brown textured-paper over boards; dust jacket. Two crimped page corners, else about fine in a very good jacket, unclipped, with light rubbing and foxing (the latter mostly to interior) and a short closed tear at head of rear panel.
English-language translation of this 1914 novel by Japanese writer Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), a subtle study of "man's loneliness in the modern world," as translator Edwin McClellan calls it in his foreword. Adapted into Japanese-language films in 1955 and 1973 by Kon Ichikawa and Kaneto Shindo, respectively. Jacket design by Stephen Dwoskin.
