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Tokyo: Published for Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai by the Iwanami Shoten, 1940. Third printing, 8vo, pp. lxxx, 502, [4]; 5 maps, one folding; full green cloth, gilt title on spine; light shadows on endpapers, else fine, in very good, edge rubbed dust jacket. With a manuscript inscription tipped in to endpaper, appearing to be a transcription of a waka by Ueda Akinari, followed by an ink mark "Yasuda." Also on endpaper is a later, separate ownership signature, "'Tom' Watanabe."
The Manyoshu: One Thousand Poems Selected and Translated from the Japanese by TAKI, Seiichi (Chairman) et al - 1948
by TAKI, Seiichi (Chairman) et al
The Manyoshu: One Thousand Poems Selected and Translated from the Japanese
by TAKI, Seiichi (Chairman) et al
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten for the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1948. Third impression. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Quarto, 502pp., illustrated with 5 plates (1 folding). A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in the publisher's pale blue cloth. Touch of foxing to the edges. In a near fine dust jacket, mildly toned. Scarce in jacket. A tipped-in slip of paper at rear indicates that this is the third impression, issued in 1948.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition near fine
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition Third impression
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Iwanami Shoten for the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai
- Place of Publication Tokyo
- Date Published 1948
- Keywords Japan, Literature in translation