Sound Waves, Signed (12 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed by De'Pazzi, who has two poems and a drawing in the collection and served on the editorial board. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Collectible-Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed. VG+ hardcover in VG+ dj. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Photographs by Liam Blake Introduction by Micheal O Dubhshlaine. Ltd edition 12/75. Signed by the photographer. Fly leaf clipped probably where an inscription may have been removed. Else very good. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has some very light wear from handling. Grey cloth boards in fine shape. Author's inscription: "To Mini Best Wishes Leo Beranek, 11/08" World famous accoustical engineer from MIT writes about his career. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good or Better Book in a Very Good or Better Dust Jacket, Unclipped (Unpriced). Signed with Warm Inscription to Flyleaf by Author. Book has trivial shelf wear and moderately sunning to extremities. Text block has trivial soiling and tonight. Text is unmarked though a few leaves have impressions/damage from something like a paperclip. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has a few bumps and chips along top edge. Light fading from sunning. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], [1], 2-235pp. Publisher's Lavender Grey Cloth, Stamped Gilt Detailing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. x, 1 leaf, 235 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Beranek on front flyleaf: 'To: Helen/With glowing memories/of our years serving/Boston's non-profit/organizations!/Leo Beranek/Dec. 2010'. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback. Signed First Edition. Inscribed by author in blue pen on half title page. " For Herman Breytanboch, Ko Un ". Book has light wear, tiny spot top edge, a couple indentations to covers. Text is clean. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A very scarce bilingual edition published by DapGae Books in Korea as part of the English Translations of Korean Literature Series in association with Cornell University . Translated by Brother Anthony of Taize and Young-Moo Kim. Stiff French-fold multi-color wrappers, 314 pages, with Korean text and English translations en face. This copy INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY KO UN. Ko Un (born 1933) is a South Korean poet whose works have been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. He had been imprisoned many times due to his role in the campaign for Korean democracy. Many followers of Korean literature believe Ko Unone of the country's most revered and prolific writerswill be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature. Once a Buddhist monk, then a political dissident, and always a poet, Ko Un is "able to make the intensely personal into work having universal appeal and significance." Bright and fine throughout. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First English Language Edition. Mishima's first book to be translated into English, and an enduring classic of Japanese literature. It has been adapted for film at least five times. According to John Nathan's Mishima biography, this book "became not only Mishima's best-selling novel to date but broke all postwar records with a sale of 106,000 hardback copies [in Japan]. The Sound of Waves is the only love story that Mishima ever wrote that was neither perverted nor sardonic. In later years Mishima often referred to The Sound of Waves as 'that joke on the public.' . On the contrary, he was almost certainly in earnest, determined to demonstrate to himself . that he was capable of creating a world so different from his own" (p. 120?121, Da Capo). Translated by Meredith Weatherby. "The translator Meredith Weatherby was one of a number of army intelligence officers with the occupation who settled in Japan. He came to know Mishima well in the early fifties. His first translation was not The Sound of Waves but Confessions of a Mask, which he had completed as early as 1954. The Sound of Waves was published first because Knopf was reluctant to introduce Mishima to the West with a 'homosexual novel'" (p. 132n). [2:blank], [iv], 184 pages. First English-language edition (stated first edition). Wear to the corners and some discoloration to the endpapers (particularly the rear endpapers), else very good in a very good dust jacket with minor wear and some fading to the purple spine, but much less than usually seen. This copy is inscribed by Mishima in English and Japanese on the front free endpaper.

First edition in English, preceding the British first by one year of "this classic work,Âits action might take place at any point across a thousand years" (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dorothy Norman with the author's best wishes Yukio Mishima at the X'mas time 1957." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Jose de Almeida. Translated by Meredith Weatherby. Drawings by Yoshinori Kinoshita. Rare and desirable signed. Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers. "Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities" (Christian Science Monitor).

First Japan printing of the first edition in English, almost simultaneous with the American printing. Translated by Meredith Weatherby. Small octavo. pp [iv], 183, [2] adverts. Headpiece illustrations by Yoshinori Kinoshita. Pictorial wrappers with flaps. The first of the author's books to be translated into English.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the first blank: ''To Charles Terry with author's best wishes - Y. Mishima''. The recipient was a Japanese translator for the U.S. army during the war, after which he remained in Japan and was a member of an ex-pat group of writers with which Mishima had occasional contact.On the first blank is the ink stamp of the Book Worm, a Tokyo bookshop, and on the front cover is a small price sticker. Small dampstain to bottom corner of rear cover. Some rubbing to covers at edges and joints. Very good.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kinoshita, Yoshinori (illustrator). First American Edition. First American edition. Signed by Yukio Mishima and inscribed to former owners on the front free endpaper, with Mishima's chop stamp as well. Original paper covered boards. Near fine with light toning and edge wear to covers, pages toned. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with fading heaviest at the spine, several edge-tears and an internal chip to the rear spine joint near the foot; foxing to the blindside. The first of Mishima's books to be translated in the US.