Pocket Books, 1975 cover
Cover of the Pocket Books, 1975 edition of this book. The Secker & Warburg 1972 jacket has not been photographed yet.
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Spring Snow, the first volume of Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, was published in Michael Gallagher's English translation in 1972 by both Knopf in New York and Secker & Warburg in London. The British first is recorded by the British Library and Open Library as [2], 392 pages, ISBN 0436281562. The Penguin paperback (Harmondsworth, 1976, 362 pages) and later reprints are not firsts.
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Secker & Warburg, London, in 1972, in hardback.
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