T. S. Eliot. A Tribute from Japan.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. ix, 207. Blue buckram, lettered in gilt to spine. Bibliography [of books and articles on T. S. Eliot published in Japan], Notes.

With a Japanese advert bookmark for this book tipped-in to rear.

Presentation copy from editor Frederick Tomlin [head of the British Council in Japan, 1961–67] to Sir Francis [British Ambassador to Japan, 1963–67] and Lady Rundall, in Tokyo on 26.xii.66. A prolific essayist himself, in 1988 Tomlin published an account of his life-long friendship with Eliot, in which he confers on the author the title of "the greatest man I have ever known."

Tributes by Takamichi Ninomiya, Hajime Shinoda, Nicholas Hagger, E. W. F. Tomlin, Junzaburo Nishiwaki, Masao Hirai, Frank Tuohy, William Johnston, Kenichi Yoshida, Tsuneari Fukuda, Roger Matthews and Peter Milward.