RASHOMON AND OTHER STORIES
1952réf. 7191New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation 1952. First American Edition. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work first published in English in Japan by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921 published in literary magazines. The first two stories "In A Grove" and "Rashomon" served as the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's masterful film adaptation which opened the world of Japanese cinema to the West and introduced Toshiro Mifune to viewers on a mass scale. As a testament to its significance and staying power the collection along with several other stories was re-issued by Penguin Books in 2006 with an entirely new translation by Jay Rubin and a lengthy introduction by Haruki Murakami. Criterion 138. Octavo 21cm; teal cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 45-1199pp with frontispiece and 6 plates of illustrations by M. Kuwata. Some offsetting to endpapers from old paper-backed mylar else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket shows a few pinpoint rubbed spots mild offsetting on verso with a closed tear and thin attendant stain at lower rear panel; Near Fine. Liveright Publishing Corporation unknown
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