1 option
Japan, portrait of paradox. / Quentin Crewe.
LIBRA - Rare DS821 .C7 1962 Potok copy
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crewe, Quentin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Civilization.
- Japan.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Other Title:
- Curse of blossom
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1962]
- Contents:
- Tokyo
- The professors
- Countryside
- House-hunting
- The inn
- The house
- The schoolteachers
- Notes on journeys
- Festivals
- The abbot
- The students
- The politicians
- The quayside.
- Notes:
- "First American Edition, 1962."
- "Originally published in Great Britain under the title 'A Curse of Blossom'."
- "Design by Frank Karpeles."
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok May 1962 Philadelphia".
- OCLC:
- 611498
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.