Shogun.

“Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience": First Edition of James Clavell's Shogun; Signed by Him

Shogun.

CLAVELL, James.

Item Number: 121453

New York: Atheneum, 1975.

First edition of the first chronological work in Clavell’s epic Asian series. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication, “James Clavell New York June ’75.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable signed.

"It's almost impossible not to continue to read Shogun once having opened it,' wrote Webster Schott in The New York Times Book Review. '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). Although Shogun is the first volume in Clavell's Asian series, it was published after the novels King Rat (1962) and Tai-Pan (1966). The series also includes the novels Noble House (1981), Whirlwind (1986) and Gai-Jin (1993).

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