Snow Country and Thousand Cranes

The Nobel Prize Edition of two novels. First Combined Edition. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker. 175 + 147 pp. Publisher’s beige cloth boards with silver design and lettering. Top-edge green. Untrimmed edges. A near fine copy. In very good unclipped dust jacket. Small tear to head of lower panel. Slightly chipped to spine folds and corner tips. *** A beautiful copy of this combined edition of Kawabata’s much praised novels – the only two available in English translation at the time. Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.