The Needle-Watcher
( Will ADAMS ) BLAKER, Richard
BRIGHT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Heinemann, [1932]
Stock code: 22846
Price: £48.00
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and endpaper maps in red, free endpapers moderately spotted, small contemporary inscription on half-title, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound); original burgundy cloth, upper board framed in black, backstrip lettered in gilt ad blocked in black, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright copy.
The story of Will Adams, shipwrecked in seventeenth century Japan and befriended by shogun Ieyasu. This book forms the basis of Clavell's novel Shogun. THE UK EDITION IS VERY SCARCE - FAR MORE SO THAN ITS US COUNTERPART PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY.