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Forbidden Colors
by Yukio Mishima
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First US. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf, 1963 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, stated. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gold gilt. Light wear to edges and some soiling to page edges. The covers are slightly cocked. Ex library copy with the call number on the spine and and borrowing card removed from the end paper. The cover is detached from the spine, but still fully connected to the fly leaves. Jacket is fully intact and protected with sturdy, library mylar. This is a well circulated, fully readable copy, with clean pages. Translated form Japanese by Alfred H. MarksCondition GOOD-. April Box 4
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
- Seller
- Honest Dog Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- A803981X02NDU
- Title
- Forbidden Colors
- Author
- Yukio Mishima
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Pages
- 403
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Honest Dog Books
Biblio member since 2022
Bayfield, Wisconsin
About Honest Dog Books
Honest Dog Books is a family-run new and used general interest bookstore with a long history in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Owners Julie Buckles and Charly Ray are wilderness travelers with a team of sled dogs, two teenagers, and deep love for community, literature, and conversation.
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
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