first edition
1985 · Tokyo
by Dazai, Osamu; James Westerhoven [Translator]
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1985. First English-language edition. First English-language edition. [xxx], 189, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing, small ding to back panel. Uncommon. The acclaimed Japanese novelist writes of his birthplace-- the Tsugaru Peninsula at the northern tip of Honshu-- its people, and his travels there. Dazai is best-known in the English-speaking world for his final novel No Longer Human.
(Inventory #: 140945899)