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Forbidden Colors
by Mishima, Yukio
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Plus
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition. Translated from the original Japanese by Alfred H. Marks. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration in Japanese on the front cover; titling in gilt and turquoise on the spine. Clean text; 403 pages. Very bright and fresh. Previous-owner bookplate on the FFEP, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket, with its modernist design by Joseph del Gaudio, is unclipped; it shows some edgewear (wrinkling) at the margins of the spine and some light fading on the spine. Other than that, close to Fine; in an archival plastic protector. . First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Forbidden Colors is a novel by Yukio Mishima, translated into English in 1968. The name kinjiki is a euphemism for homosexuality. The kanji 禁 means "forbidden" and 色 in this case means "erotic love", although it can also mean "color". The word "kinjiki" also means colors which were forbidden to be worn by people of various ranks in the Japanese court. It describes a marriage of a gay man to a young woman.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004230
- Title
- Forbidden Colors
- Author
- Mishima, Yukio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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