Temple Golden Pavilion by Mishima Yukio, First Edition (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st. This is Mishima's novel about the pressure of living an idealised life. It tells a fictionalised account of real events - the lonely acolyte who destroyed a famous Kyoto temple. Mizoguchi grows up a lonely boy in a poor family, a hopeless and frustrated stutterer. Only tales of the beauty of a famous temple in Kyoto, told by his dying father, sustain him. Taunted by his schoolmates, he eventually escapes to become an acolyte at the temple. But there, witness to acts of callous violence and terrified by the bombing of the war, Mizoguchi develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's preservation - until the beauty of the place itself starts to feel like his deadliest enemy.This powerful story of sacrifice and unattainable ideals brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion and national history to dazzling effect.'One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times.

Condition: New. 1994. 1st Edition. hardcover. Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period. Translator(s): Morris, Ivan. Num Pages: 1344 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1994 Everyman's Library Hardcover 1st Edition thus 1st Impression. Fine copy with unclipped dustjacket. Classic Jacket design as shown on our listing. Appears unread.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition. A Japanese literary milestone by a famous writer.Book has cello tape marks from DJ being taped to the book. DJ is chipped at the top of the spine and has edge wear.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st. This is Mishima's novel about the pressure of living an idealised life. It tells a fictionalised account of real events - the lonely acolyte who destroyed a famous Kyoto temple. Mizoguchi grows up a lonely boy in a poor family, a hopeless and frustrated stutterer. Only tales of the beauty of a famous temple in Kyoto, told by his dying father, sustain him. Taunted by his schoolmates, he eventually escapes to become an acolyte at the temple. But there, witness to acts of callous violence and terrified by the bombing of the war, Mizoguchi develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's preservation - until the beauty of the place itself starts to feel like his deadliest enemy.This powerful story of sacrifice and unattainable ideals brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion and national history to dazzling effect.'One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st American Edition. 1st American edition, 1959. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 262 pp., bound in publishers red cloth spine and grey paper boards with illustrated dust jacket, $4.00. Some minor soiling and tanning to jacket with rubbing to tips and edges. End papers are tanned, text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, ultranationalist, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku. Mishima is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book is bound in blue boards with a red spine. There is very, very light wear along the edges. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. Small ink letter j on the top corner of the front endpaper. States: "First American Edition". The dust jacket is price clipped, has a 1 cm chip off the bottom edge of the back cover, with light wear on the spine tips & along the edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ivan Morris(Translator) Nancy Wilson Ross(Introduction) Fumi Komatsu(Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (First Edition) A firm mostly square copy. Minor wear to bottom edges and top of spine edges. Very minor wear to two corners. Not price-clipped. A bright pictorial jacket. Very minor wear to edges. In clear protective cover. Title page dated 1959. First American Edition, stated. Originally published in Japanese as Kinkakuji. Gray boards with orange cloth quarter binding. BOOK.

First Japan printing of the translation by Ivan Morris, published in the same year as the New York edition. Octavo. pp xx, 262. Wrappers with flaps. Introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross.Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: ''To Pierre - Yukio Mishima with the author's best wishes, 18 April '61''. On the same page is an earlier inscription from Charles Saito to ''Mr Landy''. Pierre Landy was the French Ambassador to South Korea.Some light rubbing to covers. Very good indeed. Housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase.