By Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Dorothy Britton; E. G. Seidensticker
London   Kodansha International and Ward Lock & Company
8" by 8.5" Unpaginated
A first English edition of this Japanese short story with woodcuts.
By Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Dorothy Britton; E. G. Seidensticker

1965 Tu Tze-Chun

London   Kodansha International and Ward Lock & Company
8" by 8.5" Unpaginated
A first English edition of this Japanese short story with woodcuts.
£34.00
: 1kgs / : 852B14

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase

A first English translated edition of Tu Tze-Chun by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Dorothy Britton. 

With woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara and an introduction by E. G. Seidensticker. 

This is an English translated copy of Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Tu Tze-Chun. Ryunosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese writer active in the Taisho period in Japan, regarded as the father of the Japanese short story. 

With woodcuts throughout the text. 

In the original slipcase.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original slipcase which is very smart with some fading to the boards and spine.

Fine

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