Autograph working manuscript on paper of the third installment of Tanizaki’s translation into Japanese of Stendhal’s L’Abbesse de Castro

by Jun’ichirō 谷崎 潤一郎 Tanizaki

$12,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

50 leaves 260 x 185 mm. on Tanizaki’s pre-printed paper, 10 columns per page, each leaf carefully mounted on board & bound in orihon accordion format. 8vo 296 x 217 mm. , watered silk over boards. Kyoto: 1928 . Tanizaki 1886-1965 , one of the towering figures of 20th-century Japanese literature, began his literary career in 1909. His early works were written in a straightforward novelistic style, but this began to change in the 1920s, in large

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