Women Listening to the Rain Tree (The True 1st Edition, in Japanese, 1/15 Copies with Artist's Signed Bound-In Silkscreen)
by Kenzaburo Oe
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
Japan, 1982. Boards. Fine/Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY KENZABURO OE TO JEAN STEIN (AUTHOR OF "EDIE: AN AMERICAN GIRL"), DECLARING HIS LOVE FOR WILLIAM FAULKNER (WHO JEAN STEIN, FAMOUSLY, WAS INVOLVED WITH AT THE TIME). IN ADDITION, THIS IS COPY #6 OF ONLY 15 ISSUED WITH AN ORIGINAL BOUND-IN SILKSCREEN CREATED AND SIGNED BY OE. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of the genuine 1982 1st edition, published in its native Japanese. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine glassine dustjacket AND a Fine example of the publisher's marbled slipcase and pictorial outer cardboard box. A nice example from the canon of this future Nobel Prize winner (1994) and very uncommon as such.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20591
- Title
- Women Listening to the Rain Tree (The True 1st Edition, in Japanese, 1/15 Copies with Artist's Signed Bound-In Silkscreen)
- Author
- Kenzaburo Oe
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Japan
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- rare Japanese literature, rare Kenzaburo Oe, signed Kenzaburo Oe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
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Waccabuc, New York
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