Books published by publisher KNOPF. NY 1960

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st UK Edition 3rd Impression, November 1960, same year as 1st UK. 255pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or ownership marks of any kind, the very lightest of offset browning to endpapers from blurb. Good in bright gilt lettered green cloth with small strip of fading to til of spine .5cm. Also good original unclipped colour illustrated Charles E. Skaggs dustwrapper chipped to spine and repaired to verso with tape invisibly to pictorial thus good shelf presence, featuring hearts to upper and portrait photo to rear. In addition to his books for children, Dahl had a parallell career as author of macabre tales for adults; the stories in Kiss Kiss being originally published in Playboy magazine. 'Shiveringly entertaining'. A great addition to the library of reader and collector alike.

11 cassettes / 18 hoursUnabridgedRead by Bernadette DunneAlso available abridged on audio"Beautifully detailed . . . [Listeners] are likely to come away feeling as if they've just spent several hours with the most gifted geisha in Kyoto."--San Francisco ChronicleAt last, the literary sensation and runaway bestseller, unabridged on audio.This brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha."Astonishing . . . Breathtaking . . . You are seduced completely."- Washington Book WorldIn Memoris of a Geisha, Nitta Sayuri tells us in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate of her life as a geisha. Her story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion.A unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.