Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, The

Introduction to contemporary Japanese literature

Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1939. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xlii, 485, [3]; Japanese bookseller's ticket inside upper cover, publisher's slip pased to recto of final blank leaf; very good and sound in original printed tan wrappers. Published by The Society for International Cultural Relations. Eighty-four works by 69 writers, chronologically arranged, and each with a synopsis, commentary and brief biography of the author. Among the authors selected are Sōseki Natsume, Kyoshi Takahama, Masao Kume, and Haruo Sato, among others. Item #64135

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