![]() ![]() Evidence of label removal to front free endpaper.īook fine, light edge-wear and slight soiling to near-fine dust jacket. The series also includes the novels Noble House (1981), Whirlwind (1986) and Gai-Jin (1993). ![]() ![]() Although Shogun is the first volume in Clavell's Asian series, it was published after the novels King Rat (1962) and Tai-Pan (1966). 'Yet it's not only something that you read-you live it… Shogun, set in Japan in the year 1600, follows the adventures of the fictional John Blackthorne, whom the novel presents as the first Englishman to reach Japan… In 1980 Shogun was made into a five-part television mini-series that starred Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune and was seen by 120 million viewers, the largest audience for a mini-series since Roots" ( New York Times). "'It's almost impossible not to continue to read Shogun once having opened it,' wrote Webster Schott in The New York Times Book Review. ![]() Thick octavo, original half green cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst edition of the first chronological work in Clavell’s epic Asian series, boldly signed and inscribed across the entire front blank by Clavell in English and Japanese and dated in the year of publication: "New York-Sept 75." FIRST EDITION OF SHOGUN, BOLDLY INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY JAMES CLAVELLĬLAVELL, James. ![]()
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