The Sound of Waves
Author:
MISHIMA, YUKIO & WEATHERBY, MEREDITH (Trans) & KINOSHITA, YOSHINORI (Drawings)
Title:
The Sound of Waves
Publisher:
Martin Secker & Warburg 1957
Description:
FIRST UK EDITION, ex-library, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 183pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, jacket affixed to boards at rear flap, moderate bruising & fading to board & spine edges/extrems, minor staining to rear board, spine cocked, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, moderate creasing to pages with minor soiling also throughout) in d/w, VG- (jacket affixed to rear board at rear flap, in plastic protective cover- affixed, edges likely adhesive stained, heavy wrinkling & moderate soiling, several scuffs with loss to edge of front cover & flap)
Keywords:
modern first UK editions Japanese literature English translations fiction novels Yukio Mishima