CLAVELL, James.

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Shogun. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank, "For Judy Hensley, James C. Remember "wa", July 1975 Dallas, with thanks from me. x." Shogun, the third novel in Clavell's Asian Saga, is rarely found inscribed.In his inscription, Clavell has written the Japanese kanji "wa" ("spiritual tranquility"), an idea at the centre of this novel's portrayal of 17th-century Japanese society.

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