Category: JAPANESE LITERATURE

First American edition. Close to near fine in price-clipped, Vg. + dust jacket. (Light trace of foxing at cloth gutters & lower spine. Bottom edge of boards rubbed. Shallow chipping at crest & base of spine, with no loss to titles. Spine age toned, but still perfectly readable. Couple short edge tears in jacket. ) Final volume in the Japanese classic "The Tale of Genji."
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THE SILENT CRY.

By: Oe, Kenzaburo.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: TOKYO: KODANSHA. 1974 : 1974

Seller ID: 15229

Binding: Paperback.

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

First English Language Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Fine in plain blue printed wrappers. Nobel laureate's masterpiece.
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THE SILENT CRY.

By: Oe, Kenzaburo.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: TOKYO/NY, KODANSHA. : 1974

Seller ID: 23916

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

First American edition. About fine in fine dj. (Hint of foxing at top edge) Nobel Prize winning author's masterpiece.
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FIRES ON THE PLAIN.

By: Ooka, Shohei.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: NY, KNOPF. : 1957

Seller ID: 306242

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

First American edition. Near fine in price-clipped near fine dust jacket. A Japanese gentleman (not the author) has inscribed the book to noted scholar & professor Blake Nevius on front end-paper. (A few tiny nicks & traces of shelf-wear at edges of jacket. Spine unfaded. ) Filmed in 1962 by Kon Ichikawa.
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NAOMI.

By: Tanizaki, Junichiro. (Text) Chambers, Anthony H. (Trans. )

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf : 1985

Seller ID: 3116047

ISBN-13: 9780394536637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

First American Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. As new copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages
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Woman Running in the Mountains.

By: Tsushima, Yuko. (Text) Harcourt, Geraldine Harcourt. (Trans. )

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Pantheon. : 1991

Seller ID: 3114618

ISBN-13: 9780394582382

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket

First American edition. Very good+ copy in fine dust jacket. (Edges lightly foxed. Tad musty overall. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages
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THREE GEISHAS.

By: Yamata, Kikou.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: JOHN DAY. NY 1956 : 1956

Seller ID: 4114

ISBN-13: 9781125250211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First American edition. Near fine in very good + dust jacket.. (Sticker ghost at head of rear paste-down. Another sticker ghost at head of rear panel on jacket. A few small spots of soiling to jacket. Couple small edge tears in jacket. ) Interesting study of a tradition which is largely unknown to westerners.
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Category: JAPANESE LITERATURE