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VG condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions or markings. Slipcase has a large split to spine
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0048950254
- ISBN 13 9780048950253
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages96
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The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon
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George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London
(1979)
ISBN 10: 0048950254
ISBN 13: 9780048950253
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Preface by translator, Japan in the 10th century and notes on the translation. Bottle green coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing the poetess Ono no Komachi in court dress, with white and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. First published, by this translator, in 1928. Sei Shonagon was a court lady in tenth-century Japan at the height of the Heian culture. Her pillow book / diary recounts the daily life, requirements and observations of a lady in court of the Empress. A little rubbing of the book edges with age toning of the text block edges and pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with fading of the back strip and to the 1st cm or so of the front panel  please see photograph. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). [7], 8 - 93, [1] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Diary; Japan; Medieval 10th to 15thc; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0048950254. ISBN/EAN: 9780048950253. Inventory No: 0286391. Seller Inventory # 0286391
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