Three geishas. Translated from the French by Emma Craufurd.

YAMATA (Kikou).

253 pp., 2 blank leaves, orange half cloth, green paper boards illustrated with a carp, stamped in black, original illustrated dust jacket. First American edition. The second postwar novel of the French/Japanese writer Kikou Yamata (1897 - 1975). Truthful portraits of three heroic geishas to counter the false western view of them as being - at best- Madame Butterflies or ordinary prostitutes. Unclipped dust jacket, small bookkseller stamp at fly. Good copy.