Tale of Genji Pb (Pengin Classics) - Softcover

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Penguin Edition Thus, in One Volume, 1981. Very Thick Royal 8vo. 1090p. Sporadic foxing to front free endpaper and hinge tender fly-leaf, otherwise very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or ownership marks of any kind, firmly held in joints, gentle fading to very slightly surface-creased spine. Bound in colour pictorial paperback featuring blossom and foliage illustration. 'Written in the eleventh century, the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative, perhaps the earliest true novel in the history of the world.