[Japanese characters:] Orlando. A Biography. [Translated by Oda Masanobu.]

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Publication details: Tokyo: Shun'yodo,1931,

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Inscribed by the translator on the flyleaf, to the author Shumuta Natsuo.The first of the author's novels to be translated in full into Japanese. In his Preface, the translator summarises his conception of the author's importance - and that of this particular work - in contradistinction to James Joyce, hitherto the chief modernist import, largely on the grounds of the greater attention given to gender politics.The dustjacket carries a striking playing-card design that is effective in its simplicity.

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FIRST JAPANESE EDITION, title-page tissue-guarded with Hogarth Press device to centre, frontispiece and 3 further plates, the facing pages browned, a few typographic corrections in black ink to the introductory material (perhaps by the translator), one small instance of underlining in red pencil (a few words) pp. [ii], 359, [10], original orange boards with abstract rendering of playing card design in white, pink and yellow to both boards, backstrip lettered in black, a little dustiness and a touch of rubbing to extremities, the edges browned, the endpapers partially so, dustjacket with fading to backstrip panel and a touch at head of rear panel, shallow chipping to extremities, very good

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