Yasunari Kawabata
The Existence and Discovery of Beauty, 1969
Tokyo: Mainichi Newspapers
Inscribed in Japanese and English to the photographer Yousuf Karsh.
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24mo. 109, 81pp. A bilingual printing of a lecture Kawabata delivered at the University of Hawai'i on May 16, 1969. Karsh photographed Kawabata in November 1969. A scarce signature on...
24mo. 109, 81pp. A bilingual printing of a lecture Kawabata delivered at the University of Hawai'i on May 16, 1969. Karsh photographed Kawabata in November 1969. A scarce signature on one of the first lectures Kawabata gave after his 1968 Nobel Prize win. Bound in painted cloth over boards with titling in white. Fine in fine dust wrapper with original yellow ribbon intact. Japanese advertising brochure and bookmark laid in.
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