The Actors' Analects (Yakusha Rongo)
by DUNN, Charles J. and Bunz Torigoe (editors)
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],306,[2]pp; illus.; text is in English and Japanese. Hint of sunning to spine, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with several short tears and tiny creases at crown; Very Good+. "...a collection of advice and notes left by great actors of the live popular theater of Japan, the kabuki, at the end of the seventeenth century. This book provides a fully annotated translation of the Analects, with much illustrative material" (from front flap).
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45531
- Title
- The Actors' Analects (Yakusha Rongo)
- Author
- DUNN, Charles J. and Bunz Torigoe (editors)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan;
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- Good+
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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