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Secret Rendezvous Hardcover - 1980

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  • Title Secret Rendezvous
  • Author Abe, Kobo
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Publisher Secker & Warburg, London
  • Date 1980-08
  • ISBN 9780436000218
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Secret Rendezvous

Secret Rendezvous

by Kobo Abe

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780436000218 / 0436000210
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Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Gilt to spine and front board remains bright. Publisher sticker to back of Mylar-protected jacket. Only the gentlest of wear to book and jacket. First published as Mikkai in 1977 in Tokyo by Shinchosha Company. Translated by Juliet W. Carpenter. 'Lost with him in the labyrinth,' reads the flap copy of this hard-to-find edition of Abe's Kafka-esque satire of bureaucracy, 'we come to sense with him the seductiveness of the hospital and of its philosophy: that to be truly civilized is to embrace disease.' The signature dark humor of the great Tadanori Yokoo's jacket design portends the novel's missing wife narrative as the reader is beckoned into the back of a clown-colored ambulance before being jolted by a murky photo of a mysterious woman lying just beyond its cheerfully drawn curtains. Yokoo has cited influences varying from Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast of Push Pin Studios to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and has collaborated with artists ranging from… Read More
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Secret Rendezvous [1st UK Ed]
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Secret Rendezvous [1st UK Ed]

by Abe, Kobo

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Excellent
Edition
First UK Edition 1st Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780436000218 / 0436000210
Quantity Available
1
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Adelaide , South Australia, Australia
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1980. First UK Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Excellent/Excellent. First UK printing of an intriguing title from this award-winning Japanese author. First UK Edition [Secker & Warburg, London, 1980]; [x], 182 pages; tan papered boards over black cloth, Japanese characters on front board, gold titling to spine [in English], slightly darkened top edge, an excellent copy; in like, unclipped [$8.95] illustrated dustjacket, Secker & Warburg sticker over ISBN at rear [jacket is the original US version, modified thus for the UK market], price sticker residue on front. Kafkaesque postmodernist novel where a man's wife is taken to hospital & disappears. Translated by Juliet W Carpenter. SBN: 436 00021 0 / 0436000210
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