DUNN, Charles J. and Bunzō Torigoe (editors)

The Actors' Analects (Yakusha Rongo)

New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],306,[2]pp; illus.; text is in English and Japanese. Hint of sunning to spine, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with several short tears and tiny creases at crown; Very Good+.

"...a collection of advice and notes left by great actors of the live popular theater of Japan, the kabuki, at the end of the seventeenth century. This book provides a fully annotated translation of the Analects, with much illustrative material" (from front flap).

Price: $75.00

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