first edition Hardcover
1957 · New York
by MISHIMA, Yukio (plays); KEENE, Donald (translation & introduction)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 red paper over boards, quarterbound in black cloth with titles stamped in pink foil on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 198pp, [4]; illus. Topstain faded, with offsetting and light soil to pastedowns and endpapers and a tiny bumpt lower edge of front board; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped, edgeworn, lightly sunned at spine with soiling to rear panel; Very Good+. The author's scarce second book, illustrated throughout with 10 half-tone photographs. (Inventory #: 17897)