Secret Rendezvous [1st UK Ed]
$60
By Kobo Abe
First UK printing of an intriguing title from this award-winning Japanese author
Out of stock
Description
- First UK Edition [Secker & Warburg, London, 1980]; [x], 182 pages; tan papered boards over black cloth, Japanese characters on front board, gold titling to spine [in English], slightly darkened top edge, an excellent copy; in like, unclipped [$8.95] illustrated dustjacket, Secker & Warburg sticker over ISBN at rear [jacket is the original US version, modified thus for the UK market], price sticker residue on front
- Kafkaesque postmodernist novel where a man’s wife is taken to hospital & disappears
- Translated by Juliet W Carpenter
- SBN: 436 00021 0 / 0436000210