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Published by New Directions, 1969
ISBN 10: 0811201872ISBN 13: 9780811201872
Seller: KuleliBooks, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. The book may have minor cosmetic wear (i.e. creased spine/cover, scratches, curled corners, folded pages, minor sunburn, minor water damage, minor bent). The book may have some highlights/notes/underlined pages - Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included - Safe and Secure Mailer - No Hassle Return.
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Published by New Directions, 1969
Seller: The Book Corner, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library paperback book with library stickers, labels and stamps on cover and inside. Cover is worn, corners are bent. Spine is tight. Pages are clean, free of markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.
Published by A New Directions Book/New Directions Publishers, New York, 1969
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Poor. 402 pp. Heavily used book in poor quality. Back cover is missing. Spine is damaged. An Ex-University-Library (Barnard College, Columbia University, New York)-Book with all the usual and standard signs (stamps, stickers,envelope,etc.).
Second printing. Translated from the Japanese of this great Japanese fiction writer, lived 1642-1693, by Ivan Morris. UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Illustrated. Includes extensive academic material by Morris: introduction, notes, bibliography, essays. Map on endsheets. -- Hardcover. Good-only used condition (rear-cover stained, otherwise a sound and clean copy) with very good dust jacket.
Published by Chapman & Hall, London, 1963
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. (xiii) 403pp. Orange cloth boards with black and red illustration to front cover and black titles to spine. No inscriptions. Boards very lightly rubbed. Textblock clean tight and bright. A pleasing copy.
Published by London: Chapman & Hall, 1963
Seller: Richard Roberts Bookseller., KILMARNOCK, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st. Edn. pp. xiii, 403. With 14 black & white plates. Endpaper maps. A very good plus hardback copy in a similar state sleeve protected wrapper. A great insight into 17th. Century Japan.
Published by New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticutt, 1963
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Thus Edition. Text in English. Translated and edited by Ivan Morris. NF/VG+. Hardcover; orange silk cloth with red and black decoration on front board; black spine titles; 403 pp.; illustrated in b/w; slight edgewear to price-clipped jacket, else clean and crisp. A near fine copy in a very good or better jacket. Protected in an archival Brodart cover.
Seller: Devils in the Detail Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Title: The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other WritingsAuthor: Ihara SaikakuPublisher: Chapman & HallPublication date/edition (if known): 1963Binding: HardbackIllustrated: Monochrome platesPages: 403Description / Condition: Tan illustrated boards with black titles on spine. Wear, slight creases and grub marks to boards. Inscribed inside, pencil notes in index, light foxing to fore-edge, otherwise pages in good condition, shipped from the UK.
Seller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.
[New York 1963], New Directions. Brown cloth, 403p., end paper maps, illus. notes, app., very, good., edited with an introduction by Ivan Morris, dj, boxed. Set in the 17th century, these erotic stories are based on the love and love relations between all classes of people. Highly enjoyable reading, it is a translation of classic works such as: Five Women Who Chose Love, The Life of An Amorous Woman, The Eternal Storehouse of Japan, Reckonings That Carry Men Through the World &c. Nicely illustrated.
Published by Lond. Chapman & Hall., 1963
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Or.cl. Dustjacket. 403pp. b/w ills. Dj sl.torn else a very good copy. 1st ed. Writing during the Edo period in Japan, poet Ihara Saikaku wrote about the lowest classes in the Tokugawa world. Tales of the townsmen who were rising in wealth & power, but not in official status.
Published by chapman & hall, london, 1963, 1963
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
403pp, ills (b/w) NF (brown cloth with decorative stamps, scuffing to upper extrem.) in VG d/w (minor creasing and chipping to extrems, sl soils.) in slipcase G+ (sl sunned and soiled.).
Published by Chapman & Hall, London, 1963
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, illustrations, cloth. First edition. Annotated translations of the title story (a short novel) and short fiction by a seventeenth-century Japanese writer who is now widely recognized to be one of the great early writers of realistic prose fiction. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with some general dust soiling. (#135886).
Published by New Directions, New York., 1963
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First USA edition. Illustrations. 17th-century Japanese erotic tales. Spine bruised at tail. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper creased and rubbed at edges and preserved in publisher's slipcase. Name on verso of front free endpaper.
Published by Chapman & Hall London 1963, 1963
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xiii + 403pp., frontis., illusts., ep maps, notes, index, A nice copy in bright decorated cloth boards with a slightly edge-worn dust jacket.
Published by New Directions, Norfolk:, 1963
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. [First Edition]. cognac-brown, silk-covered boards; front has courtesan-image stamped orange on black, black lettering on spine; red headbands; untrimmed bottom edge; map endpapers; Saikaku (1642-93); 403 pgs, w/ 2-sided frontispiece (orig cover, last pages) on coated paper & 19 illus in text; 49-pg intro by Morris w/ 137-pg appendices & index at back; illus dj w/ $5.50 on front flap, 13 titles listed on back; beautifully printed in Japan; corrugated slipcase w/ pink & white title-label, black lettering. translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris. fine copy in near fine dust jacket in vg(-) slipcase; dj spine barely age-toned w/ trivial scratches, & closed tears at head, else fine; slipcase label faded on spine w/ surface ding to back edge; top edge & spine darkened, otherwise sound.
Published by CHAPMAN & HALL, LONDON, 1963
Seller: TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS, THETFORD, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. English language edition. Hard cover with dust jacket. Moderate wear/rubbing/Peeling on DJ edges. Not price clipped. Titles on DJ spine are faded. Brown boards. Black titles on board spine Illustration on front board. Moderate slant to board spine. Tanned and slightly foxed pages. Otherwise clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Black and white illustrations. Bottom edges of pages are rough edged. 403 pages with notes and index to notes. Location: SWB1.