2002 Across the Nightingale Floor

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

The first edition signed by the author in the original publisher's black cloth binding with the unclipped, bright dust wrapper.

The first edition, first impression indicated by no later print dates, with the author's signature to the half title page.

Across the Nightingale Floor is the first of Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori trilogy. It is set in a fictional, feudal Japanese land in the Sengoku period, and follows the story of a sixteen-year-old boy named Tomasu and fifteen-year-old girl named Kaede.

With an interesting Manyoshu poem epigraph from the Japanese poetry anthology From the Country of Eight Islands by Hiroaki Sato.

With a small advanced reading copy pamphlet from the uncorrected proofs loosely inserted.