The Vow

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Translated by Dr. T. Kihara. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), toned at the spine and edges, rubbed and with some tears and chips, some spots of soiling. Blue cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, soiled at the top. Square and firmly bound with a yellow topstain, a few stains at the edges, former owner's information on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Yanagawa's novel about "a conflict that rages between mother and son, a conflict arising from the Japanese conception of the obedience due parents from their children regardless of their maturity.