Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

388 pp. Unusually well-preserved copy of this pretty little book: an American man of letters ruminates on the Japanese mind in beautifully crafted prose. Publisher's dark green burnished cloth with gilt stamping in a blend of Japanese style and art-nouveau type; gilt tops, deckled fore edge; EPs and text stock in laid paper; two-color TP with engraved vignette. Very few flaws without: extremities of spine a bit taxed, some gilding at top and bottom boards rubbed; small water spot beneath title, top board; gilding up top scratched; deckling a bit compressed here and there (photos). Within, general tanning is the only flaw; there are no signs of provenance, except for a bookseller's foil label secreted at tail of rear paste-down; no markings or signs of use anywhere; binding untried. No DJ; archival cover supplied. For excerpts, see photos.