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Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan
by Skord, Virginia (Tranlator)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0824813154
- ISBN 13
- 9780824813154
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, dark blue cloth covered boards. 222 pp. A tight, clean volume with very fresh, bright cloth and pristine white interior, unmarked, unblemished and unread in a crisp, tight, unclipped, glossy dust jacket with one very short very closed edgetear, else fine. Very fine in very near fine dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09176
- Title
- Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan
- Author
- Skord, Virginia (Tranlator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0824813154
- ISBN 13
- 9780824813154
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Place of Publication
- Honolulu, HI
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- JAPAN, JAPANESE, SKORD, COLLECTION, ANTHOLOGY, STORIES, SHORT, TALES, FOLK, TRADITIONAL, HISTORY, LITERATURE, LITERARY, MEDIEVAL, TOKUGAWA, ANTHOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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