REVENGE: ELEVEN DARK TALES

First UK edition, first printing. First hardcover edition. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Publisher's original black boards specially bound in Japanese silk, as issued. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks.

Issued in a limited edition of just 100 specially bound copies, this example is numbered 38 and signed by the author in black ink to the limitation plate of the front endpaper. Scarce thus. A collection of eleven interconnected stories by the acclaimed writer whose work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize and international awards including the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. This collection was shortlisted for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (which the following year merged with the Man Booker International Prize).