Yasunari Kawabata
Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself, 1969
Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation
Inscribed in English and Japanese to the photographer Yousuf Karsh.
2439
Octavo. Paginated 241-260pp. The text of Kawabata's acceptance speech for the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature is here printed in both Japanese and English. A scarce keepsake edition. Bound in...
Octavo. Paginated 241-260pp. The text of Kawabata's acceptance speech for the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature is here printed in both Japanese and English. A scarce keepsake edition. Bound in blue wrappers. Moderate overall creases and rubs, else very good. Previous owner's (Karsh's) underlines to the English section. Laid in is a clipping describing the various pars of Japan's Pearl Temple.
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