Four by Mishima
Mishima, Yukio. Spring Snow. Pocket Books, 1975. Softbound. Translated by Michael Gallagher. $18.
Mishima, Yukio. Runaway Horses. Pocket Books, 1975 (2nd Pocket Printing). Softbound. Translated by Michael Gallagher. $18.
Mishima, Yukio. The Temple of Dawn. Pocket Books, 1975 (2nd Pocket Printing). Softbound. Translated by E. Dale Saunders and Cecilia Segawa Seigle. $18.
Mishima, Yukio. The Decay of the Angel. Pocket Books, 1975 (2nd Pocket Printing). Softbound. Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. $18.
Four chic mass-market paperbacks by the novelist, who at age 27 realized for the first time, while traveling abroad and standing on deck of a ship, that he was a physical being made of flesh, an epiphany that would go on to shape his disciplined and highly aesthetic vision. In 1970, following a failed coup attempt to restore direct rule by the Japanese emperor, Mishima committed seppuku, a ceremonial suicide involving disembowelment.
All four books have tight, square spines, although Spring Snow's has some cosmetic creasing. There is some sunning to the spines of all four. All have clean, unmarked interiors and light to moderate edge-wear. Mass-Market Paperbacks.
