James A. Michener. Sayonara. Random House, New York, 1954.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A signed copy of the first edition, later printing without the first printing statement. VG HC with some wear to the top of the spine, slight lean. VG+ clipped dust jacket now with a brodart jacket for protection. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author

Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia

Michener, James A.. Sayonara: A Japanese-American Love Story [SIGNED]. Random House, New York, 1954.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: SIGNED. Black 1/4 cloth-effect and brown paper covered boards, lettered in silver foil and orange. Well-preserved copy with text block edges a bit tanned, slight bump to top front corner, otherwise presents essentially as issued. Both flyleaves a bit tanned toward edges and along hinges. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior. Color illus. dust jacket rubbed along a portion of rear joint and lower spine panel, with corners and spine extremities a bit chipped, small corner of surface paper loss at top binding corner of front panel, rear panel and flaps a bit tanned, now in mylar. Stated 9th ptg. 243 pp. Signed by author on front flyleaf, full signature, no inscription or date. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.

Michener, James A.. Sayonara.. Random House, 1954.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine jacket, not price-clipped, unfaded, with just a little of the laminate lift associated with this wrapper. 243pp. This copy includes a custom bookplate SIGNED by Michener laid in. Moviesource for a Marlon Brando vehicle. Q12965

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Michener, James A.. Sayonara. Random House, 1954.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed and dated by Michener on froont endpaper to a prominent talk show host '1983 to . All the best - Sayonara James A. Michener'; with Michener's 'JAM' rubberstamp or 'chop' in red ink. True first edition of the familiar 'Japanese-Amer ican love story' (jacket upper cover) between an Air Force major and an act ress; 'First Printing' on title page verso and '1/54' on jacket front flyle af. Basis of the 1957 motion picture, starring Marlon Brando, Miyoshi Umeki and Red Buttons. Cloth has minor shelfwear; foredge of text has some staining; price-clipped jacket has some delamination and wear. [8],243,[2] pages. b/w dec title page.

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

MICHENER, James. Sayonara. Random House, New York, 1954.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. N.Y.: Random House, (1954). First Edition. Fine, except that, as usual, the laminate on the dust wrapper is beginning to separate. Immaculate copy of this early novel which was the basis for the 1957 Marlon Brando film. Signed in full by Michener, Waihiki, T.H.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

James A. Michener. Sayonara. NY: Random House, 1954.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Beautiful really sharp Fine First Edition in equally Fine original dust jacket of this beloved Japanese-American love story.  Basis, of course, for the immensely popular 1957 Joshua Logan-directed film adaptation by Paul Osborn which starred Marlon Brando, Myoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Ricardo Montalban, Martha Scott and James Garner.  With the theme song by Irving Berlin, the film won Academy Awards for Art Decoration, for Buttons, and for Umeki.   This highly worthwhile literary collectible is made even more so as it is boldly signed on the half-title by James A. Michener.

Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.

Michener, James A.. Sayonara. Random House, New York, 1954.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 243 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. SIGNED. Signed by the author in blue ink on the half title. Groseclose A.008a Quarter black cloth and brown boards with silver lettering on front and silver, brown and red lettering on spine. Near fine in price-clipped dust jacket, some toning on spine with slight bump at head of spine and light soiling along back cover

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Michener, James A.. Sayonara: A Japanese-American Love Story. Random House, New York, 1954.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, stated first printing, signed and inscribed by James Michener directly on the half-title page: "Doylestown Pa / Easter Sunday. / To Frederich B. Smillie, / A friend of my dear / Miss Lucie Price. / James A. Michener." Book with light toning to margins of endpapers, light toning along margins of half-title page, and faint toning to interior page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with two short closed tears to upper front cover, light wear/rubbing to extremities, light toning to spine/flap margins/back cover, a faint sticker ghost near edge of front flap, and a vertical crease to back flap, else fine. Association: Miss Lucie Riddell Price was the Dean of libraries in Bucks County where Michener grew up as a child. Price's library career began in Doylestown when she opened the town's first free library, the Melinda Cox Library: One of the first to sign up for a library card was 10-year-old James A. Michener. Michener's novel, Return to Paradise, was later dedicated to Miss Lucie Price, who was credited as the person who taught Michener to love books. Basis for the 1957 film with Marlon Brando, Myoshi Umeki, Ricardo Montalban, Martha Scott and James Garner.

Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.