Japanese Mirror Heroes Tapa dura - 1984

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos & drawings, small dent in first few pages, top edge lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 242 pp. A Japanese Mirror, by Ian Baruma (Jonathan Cape, 1984). A well-informed look at Japanese popular culture and its disturbing fantasies. The Dutch-born author lived in Japan for several years and was involved in Japanese theatre.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. List of illustrations, preface by author, notes and index. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Royal purple coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic / illustrated dustwrapper with pink coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Quoting from the front fold over panel blurb " ... This is a book which explains more about the Japanese the most Westerners ever discover. It is about the popular, collective imagination of a people as reflected in the films, comics, plays and books which appeal to the large majority of them." Rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges. Light tanning of the text block edges and pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with a little fading of the back strip. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

Random House (UK), 1987. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London.: Jonathan Cape.. 1984.. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 242pp, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket with a slightly sunned spine. "This is a book which explains more about the Japanese than most Westerners ever discover. It is about the popular, collective imagination of a people as reflected in the films, comics, plays and books which appeal to the large majority of them. As such it offers an insight into the raunchy, violent and often morbid side of the Japanese beyond the delicate forms of art with which we are most familiar." (Publisher's description). Contains chapters entitled "The Eternal Mother," "Demon Woman," "The Third Sex" and "The Art of Prostitution." .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.