First Edition in English, translated from the Japanese by Alfred H. Marks. Originally published in 1953 in Japan as 'Kinjiki'. Original lavender boards in the unclipped dust-jacket designed by Wilson Buchanan. Top of spine on jacket lightly rubbed, else fine. No old names or inscriptions inside. A nice copy of a gay novel set in the backwaters of seedy Tokyo among the black market hangouts of the male prostitute.