Geisha (SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH & JAPANESE KANJI)

Liza Dalby

ISBN 10: 0520204956 / ISBN 13: 9780520204959

Verlag: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998

Beschreibung

AUTOGRAPHED Unread Softcover, as originally issued, IN AS NEW WRAPPERS. Signed by the author on the bound-in full title page. Signature also accompanied by the author's geisha name, Ichigiku, written in Japanese Kanji. In this classic best-seller, author Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite.1st Edition/3rd Printing. Softcover with no DJ but protected in wraps since purchase. Seller is the original and only owner of this book. Not a remainder or EX-LIB. A GIFT QUALITY COPY. You'll not likely find a finer copy! Delivered to you in a box, never in an envelope. In fact, the buyer will receive a photocopy of the box front in which the author sent this autographed book to the seller.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000758

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Geisha (SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH & JAPANESE KANJI)
• Verlag: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0520204956
• ISBN-13: 9780520204959
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Biographies & Autobiographies
  • Signed First Editions

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Published with a new preface, this classic bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. Liz Dalby, the only non-Japanese woman ever to have trained as a geisha, reveals the realities of geisha life.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Liza Dalby is the author of Kimono: Fashioning Culture (1993). She is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture. She was recently a consultant for Rob Marshall's film Memoirs of a Geisha.