Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Xi, 189pp. Black cloth; dust jacket. Fine in an unclipped (unpriced) jacket with a small scuff to front panel and a spot of adhesive to verso from former jacket protector. First English-language edition of a novel by Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) which was originally serialized in a Japanese newspaper in 1908. Translated and with an afterword by Jay Rubin.