I Am a Cat / Natsume Soseki / Hardcover First Edition Thus / 1982 / Japanese Lit

Description

I Am a Cat
Author
: Soseki, Natsume
Title
: I Am a Cat
Publication
:
NY:
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,
1982
Edition
: First Thus
Description
:
Octavo (8.25 x 5.75 in.); 431pp.; black papered boards, in dust jacket. First American edition, following the British first of 1971; both versions use the Katsue Shibata and Motonari Kai translation from the 1961 first edition published in Tokyo by Kenkyusha Ltd. Lacking a blank front free endpaper, apparently as issued (we have handled copies of Soseki's "Mon: The Gate" also published by Coward-McCann, which display the same quirk). Moderate toning to textblock edges, else near fine in a near fine unclipped jacket with two spots of laminate bubbling near top of spine, some toning to flaps. Presents almost as new.
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