James Melville – The Wages of Zen – SIGNED First Edition 1979
£50.00
A first edition, first printing of The Wages of Zen by James Melville, published by Secker & Warburg, London in 1979. A near fine copy signed by the author in blue ink to the title page, bumping to the head of the spine, toning to the lower edge of front board and spotting to top edge of text block. In a fine wrapper.
The Wages of Zen by James Melville introduces Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo Prefectural Police, beginning Melville’s long-running Japanese detective series. Otani investigates suspected drug dealing among foreign students at a Zen temple, where an enigmatic priest presides over an uneasy mixture of spiritual discipline, cultural misunderstanding and private vice. When murder follows, the case becomes both a police procedural and a sharply observed portrait of modern Japan confronting Western influence and tradition.
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A first edition, first printing of The Wages of Zen by James Melville, published by Secker & Warburg, London in 1979. A near fine copy signed by the author in blue ink to the title page, bumping to the head of the spine, toning to the lower edge of front board and spotting to top edge of text block. In a fine wrapper.
The Wages of Zen by James Melville introduces Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo Prefectural Police, beginning Melville’s long-running Japanese detective series. Otani investigates suspected drug dealing among foreign students at a Zen temple, where an enigmatic priest presides over an uneasy mixture of spiritual discipline, cultural misunderstanding and private vice. When murder follows, the case becomes both a police procedural and a sharply observed portrait of modern Japan confronting Western influence and tradition.
