KOBAYASHI, TAKIJI

FIRST EDITION THUS, LACKS D/W, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering ot spine, 271pp, VG (spine cocked, minor rubbing to extrems, light soiling to boards, minor foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's large ink stamp to ffep)

PUBLISHER: AMS Press 1970

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IN-HOON, CHOI & KYUNG-JA, CHUN (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 302pp, VG+ (discard ink stamp to front & rear eps- no other stamps present) in d/w, VG (moderate fading & light creasing to spine & edges)

PUBLISHER: Si-sa-yong-o-sa / Pace International Research 1988

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KISSAM, EDWARD (Trans) & SCHMIDT, MICHAEL (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 143pp, VG+ in d/w, VG- (moderate fading to spine & edges, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light general chafing)

PUBLISHER: Anvil Press Poetry 1977

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WALDROP, KEITH

FIRST EDITION, octavo, patterned green heavy boards, green & black lettering to spine, 56pp, VG (minor rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, 'smiley face' ink stamps to ffep & half title page) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, 3cm closed tear to base of spine & head of front fold/flap, 3x ink stamps & prev. booksller's label to front, other minor creasing & chipping to upper edges, minor soiling)

PUBLISHER: Ann Arbor / University of Michigan Press 1968

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NAKAGAMI, KENJI & RANKIN, ANDREW (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF ROY STARRS, octavo, black textured boards, white lettering to spine & front board, 147pp, VG+ in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Kodansha International 1998

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BICHSEL, PETER & HAMBURGER, MICHAEL (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 88pp, VG+ in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate general chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front flap)

PUBLISHER: Calder and Boyars 1968

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FOX, DENTON (Trans) & PALSSON, HERMANN (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, charcoal grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 199pp, VG+ (prev. owner's name [Roy Starrs] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & soiling to rear, minor tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, prev. bookseller's label [historic] to front flap- text partially covered)

PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 1974

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SIMPSON, DAVID (Ed)

Super octavo, blue & white light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 449pp, VG (light to moderate fading to rear wrapper, 1.5cm closed tear to head of rear hinge, light creasing & curling to wrapper edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Roy Starrs] in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1988

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BACH, RICHARD & MUNSON, RUSSELL (Photos) & NISHIDA, MINORU (Notes)

2 VOL SET IN SLIPCASE, FIRST EDITION THUS, TEXT IN ENGLISH WITH NOTES & GLOSSARY IN JAPANESE, octavo, illus/blue light card wrappers, yellow & white lettering to spine- black lettering to spine of notes vol, 93pp + 52pp notes, illus/photos, VG+, in VG- slipcase (moderate chafing & scuffing- minor surface loss, title band partially torn)

PUBLISHER: Eikosha 1974

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BREEN, JOHN (ed) & Et Al

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PUBLISHER: International Research Centre for Japanese Studues 2012

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GREENHALGH, ELIZABETH (ed) & Et Al

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PUBLISHER: University of New South Wales 2003

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MERTON, THOMAS

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PUBLISHER: New Directions 1968

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BULLOCK, MICHAEL

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PUBLISHER: Third Eye 1981

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RUBIN, JAY (ed) & Et Al

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PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 2001

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ELIOT, GEORGE

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PUBLISHER: Heinemann Educational Books 1966

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CHAUCER, GEOFFREY & BROWN, CARETON (ed)

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PUBLISHER: The Clarendon Press 1958

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MANN, THOMAS & LOWE-PORTER, H T (trans)

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PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 1948

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KIPLING, RUDYARD

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PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co 1920

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DIDION, JOAN

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PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008

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BORGE, JORGE LUIS

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PUBLISHER: New Directions 1964

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