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Very Good. Reprint. 344pp. Trade paperback. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Spine creasing with wear on the extremities, very good. A biographical look at a man obsessed with hara-kiri leading to his eventual death.
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Near Fine in Very Good Minus jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Novelist, poet, Kabuki playwright, and nationalist, Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was one of the great writers of the XXth century, considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize. He publicly committed sepukku in 1970 This biography is by a friend who searches for the meaning in such an act. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition (stated First Printing). Orange cloth binding with black lettering is bright and fresh. There is a previous-owner signature on the FFEP. Laid-in are two contemporary newspaper clippings about Mishima and his death, which have offset the endpapers. The dustjacket is unclipped; there is a closed 2" tear along the lower spine edge, else Near Fine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Fine in near fine jacket. First printing. Bookplate on front pastedown, else a fine copy, in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends. Publisher's description: Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one of Mishima's closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to attend the trial of the men involved in Mishima's spectacular suicide. In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer, Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima's meteoric and eclectic career and delves into the artist's major works and themes. This biography skillfully and compassionately illuminates the achievements and disquieting ideas of a brilliant and deeply troubled man, an artist of whom Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata had said, "A writer of Mishima's caliber comes along only once every two or three hundred years."
