first edition
1969 · New York
by MISHIMA, Yukio (novel); MARKS, Alfred H. (translation)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth, with titles and decoration stamped in gilt and green on spine and front panel; peach topstain; dustjacket; 200pp, [8]. Contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, and lightly rubbed at the extremities; Near Fine. The author's eighth book, a novel of pain, frustration, and destructive sexual passions. (Inventory #: 17896)