House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd, 1969. Fine/Very Good +. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd., 1969. First English-Language Edition, Stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by M. Kuwata retaining original price ($4.50); 149pp.; frontispiece and full-page illustrations throughout. Very light shelf wear and wrinkling to jacket margins, else Near Fine.

The first translation into English of any work by Yasunari Kawabata, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the year before, in 1968.