Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1959 (1935). Later printing of first Japanese edition. Octavo in red cloth and beige printed jacket; frontis., lv, 424 pages, including notes & index to notes; 18 cm. Personal neat owner signature to front free endpaper; else fine in fine jacket in archival mylar. Extremely slight curl to boards (negligible). Hardcover.
A crisp copy in fine jacket. The uncommon Japanese edition, presumably scarce thus. Includes a lengthy 55-page introduction in Japanese by Kazumi Yano. Eliot's essays are in English with line numbers to margins, every five lines. The Notes section is over 150 pages and printed in non-parallel mix of English and Japanese. The Index is also in English and Japanese, and pertains to the Notes only. / Kenkyusha Gendai Eibungaku Sôsho, number 215 [series]. / Essais anglais. English essays. 矢野, 峰人, (1893-1988) Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965. (Thomas Stearns),
