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Essays by T. S. Eliot.: With Introduction and Notes.
by YANO, Kazumi
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Tokyo: Kenkyusha,, 1935. Arthur Waley's copy First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Arthur Waley, Esq. With compliments of the Editor. June 1936." Here, Eliot's essays are printed in English, accompanied by a 53-page introduction and extensive notes all in Japanese. Yano Kazumi (1893-1988) was a poet and scholar who translated several Western authors into Japanese and corresponded with W. B. Yeats. Waley received this copy three years after he published the final volume of his Genji translation. Small octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board with publisher's device in blind, silver ribbon markers. With dust jacket. With tissue-guarded frontispiece after photograph of Donald Hastings's bust of Eliot. Binding clean with just a few negligible marks, lower tips of boards and leaves bumped, top edge somewhat dusty, text clean, ribbon markers detached; jacket with toning and chipping, couple of neat Japanese tissue repairs, jacket flaps without price, as issued: a near-fine copy in the very good dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162353
- Title
- Essays by T. S. Eliot.
- Author
- YANO, Kazumi
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo: Kenkyusha,
- Date Published
- 1935
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