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Published by Penguin Modern Classics / Penguin Books Ltd., Hammondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1986
ISBN 10: 0140082131ISBN 13: 9780140082135
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1986 reprint of a 1971 edition, adding the Ishiguro introduction. Japanese lyrical prose fiction in translation. 204 pp. Reduced from $32.
Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1959
Seller: Lectioz Books, Gloucester, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Clipped jacket has moderate general wear and some foxing. No tears. Protected in Mylar cover (not taped). Heavy foxing to edges of page-block, preliminaries and last couple of pages. Text clean with just a very few spots to margins. Binding tight. 144pp Size: 140mm x 200mm. Book.
Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1970
ISBN 10: 0553078755ISBN 13: 9780553078756
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American Edition stated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine dust jacket ($6.95). Fading to top edges of book. Dust jacket has either a slight, if not very slight fading to spine or darkening to front panel; a mostly closed 3/8 inch tear to top edge of front panel at spine; a 1/4 inch by 1/8 inch chip to top edge of rear panel; and minor, if not trivial additional wear to spine ends, rear spine fold, and front fore-edge fold. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.
Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0436231220ISBN 13: 9780436231223
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mike Dempsey (Jacket design) (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker. The book was first published in English by Alfred A. Knopf, New York in 1972, and was originally published in Japanese in 1951 under the title "Meijin". Dustwrapper designed by Mike Dempsey. ***Very good in turquoise cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine slightly creased and rubbed. Corners sharp. Boards clean with just some browning at the edges). Edges of page block clean without any foxing. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Interior pages are clean with no foxing - paper stock just slightly tanned. Top corner of p29/30 fold creased by a previous owner. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £2.20 net. The dustwrapper is complete, but is quite heavily rubbed and creased at the head and tail of the spine. No chips or tears. Spine of dustwrapper unfaded. Dustwrapper just lightly marked but still bright. ***204mm x 145mm. 188 pages including four pages of Notes at the back of the book. ***'The game of go, which shares a common ancestry with chess, arouses in Japan the competitive fervour that chess has long evoked in Russia and is now beginning to excite in the West. In 1928 Kawabata covered a championship go match sponsored by his Tokyo newspaper. This intricate novel is the transmutation of that epic context into fiction. The challenger, young, aggressive, gregarious, faces the Master, frail, aged, solitary. It is a duel between the Master's classical remote style and the ferocious attack of his young challenger. But the confrontation symbolises a far wider conflict, a clash between modes, between generations, and ultimately between life and death. This restrained and subtle novel is a work of astonishing density which draws from its obsessional core expanding layers of meaning.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'"The Master of Go" is a novel by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. First published in serial form in 1951, Kawabata considered it his finest work. Sharply distinct from the rest of his literary output, "The Master of Go" is the only one of Kawabata's novels that the author considered to be finished.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the first UK edition of Yasunari Kawabata's most famous book, complete in its original dustwrapper. Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. Yasunari Kawabata's first UK editions are quite uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.