Secret Rendezvous [1st UK Ed]
by Abe, Kobo
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Excellent/Excellent
- ISBN 10
- 0436000210
- ISBN 13
- 9780436000218
- Seller
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Adelaide , South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
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
Synopsis
Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist, and was also widely known as a dramatist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been best sellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes , Kangaroo Notebook , The Ark Sakura , The Face of Another , The Box Man , and The Ruined Map.
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- Bookseller
- ORCHARD BOOKSHOP (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2319
- Title
- Secret Rendezvous [1st UK Ed]
- Author
- Abe, Kobo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Excellent
- Jacket Condition
- Excellent
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0436000210
- ISBN 13
- 9780436000218
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Adelaide, Adelaide Arcade, classic, classic books, fiction, first edition, Japan, japanese, literature, orchard bookshop
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- 0 kg
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