exotic japanese stories beautiful grotesque de ryunosuke akutagawa (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Hardback in good + condition with good condition dust jacket. Foxing on pages edges. Dust jacket is in mylar sleeve.

Illus. By Masakazu Kuwata (illustrateur). 14.9 cm x 21.9 cm. Colour Frontispiece, 431 pages. 22 Collage Illustrations: 6 Colour and 16 Black and White by Masakazu Kuwata. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. A very good+ hardcover copy in black and grey cloth stamped in silver and red gilt with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges and very minor fading to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Minor fraying and fading to dustjacket. From the reference library of Hans Christian-Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard. Includes for example the following tales: The Dog, Shiro / The Dolls / The Kappa / The Garden ("Niwa") / A Woman's Body / Withered Fields ("Kareno-sho") / Gratitude ("Hoonki") etc. A series of unqiue and mesmerising tales fashioned by one of Japan's greatest writers, encapsulating Japanese culture, beliefs and tradition. Akutagawa Ryunosuke, pseudonym Chokodo Shujin or Gaki, (18921927), a prolific Japanese writer known especially for his stories based on events in the Japanese past and for his stylistic virtuosity. (Encyclopedia Brittanica) Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First edition. Near Fine/ VG+. Publishres reviewer's copy Slip laid in.

hardcover. [First Edition]. black linen w/ gray cloth boards; lettering, & image on front, stamped in metallic rose-red; silver lettering on spine; 431 pgs, 16 stories ('Edited for Western Readers by McVittie & Arthur Pell'); 41-page intro & 9 pgs of notes by McVittie; frontispiece & 5 illus in full color, and 16 b&w, on coated paper, by Masakazu Kuwata; illus dust jacket, price-clipped, w/ author (name in red) bio & photo on back cover, above 2 titles listed in red; flaps printed in red, blue & black. translated from the Japanese by Takashi Kojima and John McVittie. cover art by Masakasu Kuwata. fine copy in near fine dust jacket; dj corners barely rubbed; shallow crease to head of spine, 1/2" closed tear to heel; a splendid copy.