Madame Sadayakko: the geisha who seduced the West by DOWNER, Lesley

Review. Used - Very Good. 2003. Hardcover. Very Good.

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London: Review Publications, 2003 Copy in black cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Coloured end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with colour and b/w plates.

Review. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. 0755310306 . Near fine black cloth, no inscriptions or marks with a near fine unclipped dust jacket. ; Black & white and colour photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages .

Headline Review, London, 2003,. /Dust Jacket Included. 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0755310306 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 336pp, illustrated, owner's name on endpaper, edges browned, text clean and sound, Good condition in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper, ISBN: 0755310306 .

London: Headline. This is a Mint Copy in Dust-Jacket (AS NEW) not price clipped,no inscriptions,lovely copy 8vo 336pp First Edition . As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 2003.

London, Headline Book Publishing, 2003. 0755310306 . Fine black boards with silver lettering to spine, 8 vo. , fine coloured pictorial dust jacket, not price clipped, no incscriptions, red endpapers, 336 pages, coloured and black & white photographs. .

London : Review, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 336 pages; Description: xii, 336 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-315) and index. Subjects: Kawakami, Sadayakko (1871-1946) --Actors --Geishas --Japan --Biography. Summary: It is hard to imagine the storm of excitement Sadayakko created when she toured the United States and Europe in 1899. Here for the first time was a real geisha - not just that, but the most celebrated geisha in Japan, so beautiful that the prime minister of the day paid a fortune to deflower her. Now, at the age of twenty-seven, she was launching herself into a new career as Japan's first actress. Sadayakko's story plays out against the background of the beguiling era when Japan and the west were meeting each other for the first time. And… Read More