Sun & Steel Tapa dura - 1970

[Palo Alto, California]: Kodansha International Ltd, 1971. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket, complete with the publisher's SCARCE original orange wraparound band. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. The band is lettered in English and Japanese. It reads, in part: "A work as many-sided as its author -- that philosophical muscle-builder, that romantic classicist, that Spartan sensualist... A brilliant exersise in style that is calculated to inspire..." The jacket is protected by a removable mylar sleeve. The clear-plastic sleeve is rubbed with light edgewear. NOT price clipped ($6.95). NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in the original gilt-stamped reddish-orange cloth. Complete with dust jacket and SCARCE wraparound band. Jacket design by Y. Mishima. From the jacket: "The road Mishima has taken to salvation is a highly personal one. Yet here, ultimately, one detects the unmistakable tones of a self… Leer más

Kodansha USA Inc, 1970. hardcover. Good. 8x1x9. 1970 stated first edition, tight and unmarked but lacks the jacket. Please email for photos.

Kodansha USA Inc, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 7x7x0. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Corners bumped. Tears to jacket with loss. Clean, unmarked pages. 107 p., 25 cm. <br> "The road Mishima has taken to salvation is a highly personal one. Yet here, ultimately, one detects the unmistakable tones of a self transcending the particular and attaining to a poetic vision of the universal.

Otawa, Japan & Palo Alto, California: Kodansha America, 1971. Reprint. Cloth . Good. Small quarto; {7 & 1/4' x 9 & 3/4'}; dustjacket is missing. Printed in red & black wth sun imagery design in red at top of pages. Carrot orange cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering on front board and spine. Spine is lightened by sun and mildly sunned at margins. Textured forest green end pages. Underlining and occasional side notes in red. Mild dust staining of top textblock edge. Third printing. 107 pages.