Women of Japan. Photographs by Marc Riboud. Translated by Diane Athill

[London]: Andre Deutsch, a Bruyna Book, 1959. First edition in English, 12mo, pp. 64; frontispiece and 80 photographic plates on 96 pages; slight creasing of the spine else a near fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. Christine Arnothy (née Irène Kovach de Szendrö, 1930-2015) was a Hungarian-born French novelist and literary critic who grew up in Budapest and fled with her family to Austria, thence to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne. In all she wrote over 40 books including two detective novels under the pseudonym William Dickinson. (Inventory #: 62718)