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London: Secker and Warburg, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket that is a bit sunned on the spine.
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Lieutenant Lookeast and Other Stories Hardcover - 1971
by Ibuse, Masuji
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- Title Lieutenant Lookeast and Other Stories
- Author Ibuse, Masuji
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 247
- Publisher Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, London
- Date 1971
- ISBN 9780436217760
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London. 1971. Secker & Warburg. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0436217767. Translated from the Japanese by John Bester. 247 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The ten stories in this volume cover a wide range of moods and subjects, from cattle breeding to tomb robbery, from satire to fable. The title story tells of a local eccentric, a demented martinet who returns from the war with symptoms of brain damage. Is it shell shock, the villagers wonder, or - a more exciting possibility - congenital syphilis? The truth which emerges is more squalid, yet curiously moving. This bathetic figure, a scruffy clown, becomes a symbol for the higher lunacy of war. Pilgrim's Inn' is a sharply etched vignette of society's callousness towards the individual, while Old Ushitora', a story about the delicate sensibility of the son of a stud-farmer, is bucolic comedy with a cutting edge. Through concentration on the patterns of…
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. black cloth gray lettering dust jacket unclipped, 247 pp first UK edition.
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