RASHOMON and Seventeen Other Stories. Selected and Translated with Notes by Jay Rubin. With an Introduction by Haruki Murakami. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.
AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke,1892-1927 ("Father of the Japanese Short Story")
RASHOMON and Seventeen Other Stories. Selected and Translated with Notes by Jay Rubin. With an Introduction by Haruki Murakami. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.
AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke,1892-1927 ("Father of the Japanese Short Story")
Publisher: Penguin Books USA & UK
Date published: 2006
Format: Softcover
8½"x5½" (21.5x14cm). Soft cover. First edition thus / First printing. ppLI(1)368 with chronology of the author's life, introduction, further reading section, and notes. Colour-illustrated card wrappers with flaps. Remains of small price-sticker towards lower inner corner of rear wrapper. VERY GOOD copy.
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (stories); Kojima, Takashi (translation); Kuwata, M. (illustrations)
RASHOMON AND OTHER STORIES
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (stories); Kojima, Takashi (translation); Kuwata, M. (illustrations)
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York
Date published: 1952
Octavo (21cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [4],5-119,[9]pp, with frontispiece and 6 plates of illustrations by M. Kuwata. Some offsetting to endpapers from old paper-backed mylar else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket shows a few pinpoint rubbed spots, mild offsetting on verso, with a closed tear and thin attendant stain at lower rear panel; Near Fine. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work, first published in English (in Japan) by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921, published in literary magazines. The first two stories, "In A Grove" and "Rashomon," served as the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's masterful film adaptation, which opened the world of Japanese cinema to the West, and introduced Toshiro Mifune to viewers on a mass scale. As a testament to its significance and staying power, the collection (along with several other stories) was re-issued by Penguin Books in 2006, with an entirely new translation by Jay Rubin, and a lengthy introduction by Haruki Murakami. Criterion 138.
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (stories); Kojima, Takashi (translation); Kuwata, M. (illustrations)
RASHOMON AND OTHER STORIES
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (stories); Kojima, Takashi (translation); Kuwata, M. (illustrations)
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Date published: 1952
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1952. First American Edition. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work, first published in English (in Japan) by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921, published in literary magazines. The first two stories, "In A Grove" and "Rashomon," served as the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's masterful film adaptation, which opened the world of Japanese cinema to the West, and introduced Toshiro Mifune to viewers on a mass scale. As a testament to its significance and staying power, the collection (along with several other stories) was re-issued by Penguin Books in 2006, with an entirely new translation by Jay Rubin, and a lengthy introduction by Haruki Murakami. Criterion 138. Octavo (21cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [4],5-119,[9]pp, with frontispiece and 6 plates of illustrations by M. Kuwata. Some offsetting to endpapers from old paper-backed mylar else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket shows a few pinpoint rubbed spots, mild offsetting on verso, with a closed tear and thin attendant stain at lower rear panel; Near Fine.
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