Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo ; 189, [3] pages
Publisher: Marion Boyars, 1995, London
ISBN: 0714529974

[Book #34207]

A handsome First Hardcover Edition/First Printing in Very Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Kenzaburo Oe in both English and Japanese directly on the half-title page. Translated and introduced by Paul St. John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama ;

The first novel by one of Japan's most celebrated post-war novelist, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of fifteen teenage reformatory boys who are evacuated to a remote mountain village during wartime. Oe has been awarded multiple Japanese literary prizes and international awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994; Signed by Author