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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by Yukio Mishima; Ivan Morris (trans.); Nancy Wilson Ross (intro.)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Good
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. A Borzoi Book. 1st printing (1959). 262pp. VG book, binding square and tight, some minor rubbing and fading to top edge and backstrip, internally excellent, ink ownership marks on ffep, in G+ jacket, edge worn with some minor chipping, small losses to spine ends, jacket a little rubbed and worn at edges particularly along spine, slight stain to rear cover, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1959.
Synopsis
Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1925. One of Japan’s most acclaimed and well-known authors of the 20th century, his works include The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea , The Sound of Waves , and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy ( Spring Snow , Runaway Horses , The Temple of Dawn , and The Decay of the Angel ). He died in 1970. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Object Relations, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023561
- Title
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- Author
- Yukio Mishima; Ivan Morris (trans.); Nancy Wilson Ross (intro.)
- Illustrator
- Fumi Komatsu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 262
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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