Tokyo. Kodansha International Ltd., 1974. Colour illustrations, 67pp + unpaginated plates, some haikus in Japanese, very good hardback copy in sunned dustjacket. 29.2 x 29.2cm. "In the seventeenth century, the pilgrim-poet Basho undertook on foot a difficult and perilous journey to the remote north-eastern provinces of Honshu, Japan's main island..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1987. Colour frontispiece, xviii + 372pp, appendix, notes, index, covers trifle shelf worn, a good paperback copy. The description for this book, The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji, will be forthcoming. When referring to this item please quote stockid 180132... More
Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 1978. Second paperback printing. Volume II only. xiii + 395-807pp, appendix, bibliography, index, spine sunned, corners bumped, otherwise a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 213269. More
Boston and New York. The Westgate Press. 1930. First Edition. Tipped in black and white portrait frontispiece illustration and five facsimiles with captioned tissue-guards, (viii) +112 pages, 22.5 x 14 cm, pearl grey decorative boards, figured silk spine with paper label lettered in black, ornaments printed in red, uncut edges..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1975. Reprint. xv +173pp, glossary, finding list for poems, index, paperback, upper corner bumped, little shelf worn, good paperback copy. "The book's five central chapters are devoted to the major court poets and their work; other chapters deal with the forms, assumptions, and themes of court..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1982. Reprint. xv +173pp, glossary, finding list for poems, index, paperback, shelf worn covers, otherwise a very good copy. "The book's five central chapters are devoted to the major court poets and their work; other chapters deal with the forms, assumptions, and themes of court poetry..... More
United Kingdom: Vintage, 2014. 298pp, dustjacket covers a touch worn, edges trifle foxed, very good hardback copy. "This is a mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained..... More
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東京. [Tokyo]. 東亜堂. [Tōadō]. Meiji 39 [ 1906]. 22.7 x 15.3 cm, 271 + 6 pp with 8 pages of publisher's advertisement, original decorated pebbled-cloth boards and linen backstrip worn and a little faded, the top board lettered in red with a gilt vine-leaf decoration, coloured frontispiece of a girl..... More
Tokyo. Kodansha International. 1996. 205pp, foxed covers and endpapers and edges, tilted spine, little worn covers, good paperback copy. Proof copy. "A group of Mexicans sit in the desert, gazing up at the image of their new saint--a seductive woman with a smile like Betty Boop's--projected onto an outdoor screen..... More
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東京. [Tokyo]. 三笠書房. [Mikasa Shobō]. 1974. Japanese First Edition. Translated by Mukai Hiroo. 69pp, 19.5 x 14 cm, dustjacket and original paper band a trifle worn and soiled, light browning endpapers and edges, but still a good copy of the Japanese first edition. The Eye of the Storm was published..... More
Paris. Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Japonaises. 2006. 576pp, index, text in French and English with Japanese titles, a very good paperback copy. Japanese classical works (both in romanized and vernacular form) arranged alphabetically, followed by annotation either in French or English. From the Bibliothèque de l'Institut des..... More
West Lafeyette. Purdue. 1989. ix + 385, notes, appendix, notes to appendix, some pencilling, otherwise hardcover in very good condition. "Red Lights by Mokichi Saito (1882-1953), who was a major Japanese tankaist, continued the trend in bringing new life to tanka. Sbakko, translated as Red Lights, appeared in 1913. This..... More
London. Martin Secker & Warburg Limited. 1976. 2 vols, xix + ix + 1090pp, black and white illustrations, hardback with spines a touch sunned, very good copies in attractive pictorial slipcase with extremities worn. A translation of Lady Murasaki's renowned saga. When referring to this item please quote stockid 213051..... More
New York. Palgrave. 2001. Black and white illustrations, xiv + 234pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket with few spots of foxing on reverse, very good hardback copy. A unique collection of essays that compares strikingly similar women writers of medieval Europe and Heian Japan. This study not only provides essential information on..... More
Honolulu. The University Press of Hawaii. 1980. xvi + 318pp, notes, bibliography, indices, dustjacket shelf worn with hole on spine and some loss on edges, otherwise a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 180150. More
Boston and New York. Houghton & Mifflin Company. 1922. xii + 335 pages; original maroon cloth with paper title label on the spine, rear endpapers browned, else a very good firm copy of the first edition. From a limited edition of 200 copies. Offers a ten page summary of Lafcadio..... More
Seattle. University of Washington Press. 1988. x + 294pp, notes, bibliography, index, signature of Japanese historian Dr John Caiger front free endpaper, a good hardback copy in lightly worn dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179186. More
London. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974. Translated and edited by Leon M. Zolbrod. Black and white map and illustrations, 280pp, notes, appendices, bibliography, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, endpapers little browned, spine sunned, a very good hardback copy. "A collection of nine beautifully wrought tales of the supernatural..... More