Shiro Naito (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Shiro Naito. Text in English. Very good hardcover with DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Signed by author on title page, with inscription. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Faint bumping to corners. Dust jacket has some sunning, light rubbing. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with jacket; very slight shelf wear;inscribed by the author "For Professor Shigihara with the best wishes of the author".

1st ed. - 87 pages. - With bibliogr., index. - Hardcover with dustjacket, fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 2nd edition. 2nd edition, 1990. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 182 pp., bound in publishers white cloth with illustrated green dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear only to jacket. Compliments of Shiro Naito sticker inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. …

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original ivory cloth, with titles in gilt to the spine, in the pictorial dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, with a little bumping and a tiny blue mark to the top edge of the front board, the cloth and gilt remain bright and fresh. With distinctive orange, textured endpapers. The contents, with just a couple of spots to the closed text block edge, are clean throughout. Complete with the bright, lightly creased dustwrapper, that is without fading, loss or tears. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front endpaper "For Professor Ronsley / and Mrs Ronsley / with the best wishes / of the author / 11 July 1990 / Shiro Naito". The recipient is Joseph Ronsley a prominent Yeats scholar and Professor of English at McGill University, who was the author of 'Yeats's Autobiography: Life as Symbolic Pattern'. Naito was a Japanese scholar whose work focused particularly on Yeats, Zen Buddhism and the relationship between Eastern thought and Yeats's poetry. In his preface, he explains that the book brings together three essays examining Yeats's later thought through Zen Buddhism, Ainu religious traditions and the Indian poet Kabir. He considers how these Eastern influences contributed to Yeats's spiritual development and the transformation of his "Mask" during his final phase. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).…