A Haiku Journey: Basho's "The Narrow Road to the Far North" and Selected Haiku

Matsuo Basho; Photographs by Dennis Stock; Translated and Introduced by Dorothy Britton

ISBN 10: 0870112392 / ISBN 13: 9780870112393

Published by Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York & San Francisco, 1974

About this Item

Scarce 1974 First Edition (stated) First Printing of this classic translation (NOT the small format 1982 reissue) with the photographs of the renowned Magnum photographer Dennis Stock in full-size, black-stamped heavy oatmeal cloth with panel inset photograph and original printed acetate jacket in superb condition, no rips or tears to the fitted jacket, text unmarked, NOT ex-lib, gift inscription and crease to colored front endpaper, else a bright tight truly exemplary copy of this original large format First Edition, quite scarce as such; folio; 112pp + numerous color photographic plates.

Seller Inventory # 33326

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Haiku Journey: Basho's "The Narrow Road to the Far North" and Selected Haiku
• Publisher: Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York & San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870112392
• ISBN 13: 9780870112393
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

Verse and prose observations of a seventeenth-century writer during his travels through Japan