Japanese Fiction
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1q84
by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years Of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami
HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country is the first full-length novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel established Kawabata as one of Japan's foremost authors and became an instant classic.
Japanese Fiction Books & Ephemera
Chin Chin Kobakama. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 25
by Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn. Story by Suzuki Kason or Arai Yoshimune (uncredited)
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. N.d, circa 1903. Probably first edition. Unpaginated, twelve folded-over leaves, including cover. Larger format, 7.5 by 5.25 inches, or 19 by 13.5 cm. Probably the best tale ever built around toothpicks! A fairy tale of the supernatural retribution meted out to lazy women, with a second shorter variant of the same story included as well. This copy has particularly crisp and bright color! Light soiling to covers, and some minor waviness where fabric dinged by bottom edge.
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NZ$338.80
Penance
by Kanae Minato (author); Philip Gabriel (translator)
Tight, clean, unmarked copy; small diagonal crease on the top right corner of the cover. No other major flaws.
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NZ$19.13
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
by Kenzaburō Ōe (author); John Nathan (translator, introduction)
First Evergreen paperback edition, stated First Printing. Tight binding. The Introduction has some marginal notes and underlining. The rest of the book appears unmarked. Minor wear to edges/corners.
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NZ$19.13
Modern Japanese Literature, an Anthology
by Keene, Donald
London: Thames & Hudson. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1956. Hardback. Illustrated blk d/jkt, clipped; light wear to edges, with tiny losses; internal repair to head of spine. Blk boards, bright; gilt titling + decoration, bright. Owners' names on front pastedown and front endpaper. An anthology covering 1868 - 1956. ; 8vo (6" x 9"); 440 pages .
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NZ$53.10
1Q84
by Murakami, Haruki
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First United States Edition stated. In pictorial boards. Light dings to top rear corner and heel of spine, otherwise clean with tight binding and light edgewear. Delicate vellum jacket is unclipped with light wear.
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NZ$50.82
Grass For His Pillow
by Hearn, Lian
Sydney: Hodder. 2003. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 353 pages. Tales of the Otori - Book 2. An enchanting tale set in medieval Japan. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$16.69
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pages are clean and unmarked, but slightly age tanned. Minor wear to the surface and edges.
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NZ$13.52
The Bridegroom was a Dog.
by Yoko Tawada
New York, NY Kodansha International , 1998. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Paperback Edition: First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only minor indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities; faint crease at the lower front panel. Binding shows barely discernible lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 165pp. Line Drawings by Ryuji Watanabe. Translated by...
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NZ$14.94
Beauty and Sadness: A Novel.
by [Japanese Literature] Kawabata, Yasunari
New York:: Knopf,, 1975.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before. Otoko is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continues to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover. This is a work of...
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NZ$110.11
The Lake
by KAWABATA, Yasunari
(New York): Kodansha International, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Reiko Tsukumura. Owner's name penned on front fly, page fine edges lightly foxed, still near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Kawabata was the first Japanese Nobel Laureate for literature in 1968.
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NZ$42.35
Botchan
by Sōseki Natsume (author); Umeji Sasaki (translator); Stephen Kohl (introduction)
Light dust staining on the front and back covers, but nothing overly bad. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Firm binding.
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NZ$19.13
Lion Cross Point
by Ono, Masatsugu
San Francisco: Two Lines Press, 2018. First Edition/Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Unread. Nice copy.
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NZ$16.94
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Rampo, Edogawa
Tokyo & Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. First Edition/Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Extremely scarce in cloth with jacket. By the trailblazing Japanese mystery writer, Edogawa Rampo whose pen name was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe. A big influence on popular culture, he inspired anime, manga, online games and movies. In pictorial paper covered boards with bright gilt to black spine. Light wear to spine ends. Sharp corners, clean interior and solid binding. Jacket is price-clipped at...
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NZ$254.10
Scandal
by Endo, Shusaku
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Rear top corner lightly bumped, 'star' stamp to bottom page ends. Light edgewear to jacket with crease to front flap and 1/4"" closed tear to top of front panel.
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NZ$16.94
Sabu: Story.
by Inui, Tomiko
This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. Moskva, Detskaya Literatura, 1974.Limited to 300 000 copies. The one and only edition. The story about Sabu, a Japanese boy, was written by Japanese children's book writer Tomiko Inui (1924-2002), who winning a lot of prizes including the Mainishi Publishing Culture Award and the Akaitori Award for Children's Literature. She visited the USSR in 1963 and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen prize in the following...
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NZ$254.10
Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan
by John W. Hall and Marius B. Jansen (editors); Joseph R. Strayer (introduction)
First Princeton Paperback edition. Tight binding; interior pages clean and unmarked. Light surface and corner wear.
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NZ$38.88
Killing Commendatore
by Murakami, Haruki
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First US Edition stated. In pictorial boards. Ding to top of front board with a few marks/spots to page ends. Jacket is unclipped with faint moisture stain to inside of jacket at top of spine and part of rear panel.
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NZ$25.41
Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature
by THE KOKUSAI BUNKA SHINKOKAI (ED)
Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good minus Book shows rubbing to all edges, corners bumped. Hardcover, no dustwrapper.
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NZ$84.70
The Manyoshu: One Thousand Poems Selected and Translated from the Japanese
by TAKI, Seiichi (Chairman) et al
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten for the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1948. Third impression. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Quarto, 502pp., illustrated with 5 plates (1 folding). A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in the publisher's pale blue cloth. Touch of foxing to the edges. In a near fine dust jacket, mildly toned. Scarce in jacket. A tipped-in slip of paper at rear indicates that this is the third impression, issued in 1948.
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NZ$338.80
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami (author); Philip Gabriel (translator)
Clean, unmarked copy, with moderate wear to the corners, especially the lower right, which is a bit dog-eared and creased. Binding is firm.
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NZ$16.94
Five Modern No Plays
by MISHIMA, Yukio
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo, 198pp. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, with a small area of scuffing to the to the rear board. In a very good dust jacket with some small chips and tears at the extremities, and gently sunned on the spine. A marvelous example, SIGNED by Mishima in both English and Japanese characters on the front free endpaper, and quite rare thus. "Five Modern No Plays" was one of the earliest of Mishima's...
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NZ$5,929.00
Geisha, A Life
by Mineko Iwasaki (author) with Rande Brown
First Edition/printing with complete number line. Thin black line drawn on bottom edge. No other markings. Tight copy with firm binding; Minimal wear to the dust jacket.
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NZ$20.29
Botchan(Master Darling)
by Soseki, Natsume and Yasotaro Morri (Translator)
Tokyo: Ogawa Seibundo, 1918. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. First Edition in English. Stated 1918 to title page with 1919 on cover which is standard to this edition. All further printings show year published. No endpapers issued for this copy, so possibly different state or early printing from same year of publication. In red cloth blind stamped to covers and with gilt to type and design motif on spine. Tanning to text block from paper used. Small pale stain to rear board and a few stay...
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NZ$677.60
The Fall of Japan
by William Craig
First published in 1967. First Galahad Books Edition (1997). Clean, unmarked copy; minor surface/edge wear to the dust jacket.
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NZ$30.46
