The Needle-Watcher. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Libros antiguos y modernos
Blaker R.
Heinemann,
1932
The Needle-Watcher. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Libros antiguos y modernos
Blaker R.
Heinemann,
1932
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Detalles
- Año de publicación
- 1932
- Autor
- Blaker R.
- Editores
- Heinemann
- Materia
- modern firsts, richard blaker, will adams, shogun, japan, navigation, r. blaker, modern first editions, needle-watcher
- Idiomas
- Inlgés
Descripción
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and endpaper maps in red, free endpapers moderately spotted, small contemporary inscription on half-title, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound); original burgundy cloth, upper board framed in black, backstrip lettered in gilt ad blocked in black, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright copy. The story of Will Adams, shipwrecked in seventeenth century Japan and befriended by shogun Ieyasu. This book forms the basis of Clavell's novel Shogun. THE UK EDITION IS VERY SCARCE - FAR MORE SO THAN ITS US COUNTERPART PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY.
