Taisuke Mitamura

I worked in Kepler's Bookstore when I bought this book in 1988. It was hardcover, bound with real boards and beautiful real purple silk fabric with lovely end papers and sold for $3.75. It was published in 1970 and I figured had been sitting in the store all that time with such a low price on it. It was lonely and a work of art in it's manufacture so I scooped it up.

The story itself is rather shocking and inhumane but not unreadable.
It simply tells how things were in a barbaric time. I hope we never see the likes of it again.… (meer)