Geisha (SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH & JAPANESE KANJI)

Liza Dalby

ISBN 10: 0520204956 / ISBN 13: 9780520204959

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998

About this Item

AUTOGRAPHED Unread Softcover, as originally issued, IN AS NEW WRAPPERS. Signed by the author on the bound-in full title page. Signature also accompanied by the author's geisha name, Ichigiku, written in Japanese Kanji. In this classic best-seller, author Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite.1st Edition/3rd Printing. Softcover with no DJ but protected in wraps since purchase. Seller is the original and only owner of this book. Not a remainder or EX-LIB. A GIFT QUALITY COPY. You'll not likely find a finer copy! Delivered to you in a box, never in an envelope. In fact, the buyer will receive a photocopy of the box front in which the author sent this autographed book to the seller.

Seller Inventory # 000758

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Geisha (SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH & JAPANESE KANJI)
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520204956
• ISBN 13: 9780520204959
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies & Autobiographies
  • Signed First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of tradition as Japan heads into the 21st century.

About the Author

Liza Dalby is the author of Kimono: Fashioning Culture (1993). She is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture. She was recently a consultant for Rob Marshall's filmMemoirs of a Geisha.