[Rarebooks] FS - Owen Dodson: Boy At The Window: Japanese edition

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Tue May 9 23:04:31 EDT 2006


Offered today. Pricing reflects a discount to the trade and 
institutions only. Terms below.

FS - Owen Dodson: Boy At The Window: Japanese edition

Owen Dodson's second book, a coming-of-adolescence novel. This being 
a Japanese language edition; hardback with limp covers; original 
thin, clear, cello plastic over the boards; ribbon marker; red 
pastedowns and endpapers. Rear endpaper shows a full-length 
silhouette of the author. Has a "bookmark" with book price and 
publisher information, common to Japanese books, this bookmark with a 
large chip out of the center. With original printed insert 
summarizing the book. Thin pasteboard slipcase with portrait photo of Dodson.

Copyright 1951, this translation published 1961 by Hayakawa Shobo & 
Co. Ltd.by arrangement with Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy through 
Charles E. Tuttle.

This copy from the estate of James Russell, friend of Owen, fine 
artist, and designer of Broadway and NBC stage sets in New York City.

12mo Book is about Near Fine with tiny dings to the head of the text 
block and tiny ink marks to the fore edge of the text block. Slip 
case is clean and sound, unfinished edges of pasteboard are all very 
slightly abused, slight rubbing, good-looking and basically VG. $125 
plus shipping

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