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Best Surprise Source for Mishima Paperbacks

Las Cruxes

click to enlarge Best Surprise Source for Mishima Paperbacks
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Besides comprising a high-end fashion boutique and a gallery of artwork from an international diversity of makers, this tiny Eastside emporium also happens to sell, oddly enough, vintage paperbacks by or about Yukio Mishima – the Japanese author, playwright, actor, model, and film director who killed himself via seppuku in 1970. Which books can be, sometimes, exactly what you want to read.