Hideo Yokoyama; Louise Heal Kawai [Translator]; Jonathan Lloyd-Davies [Translator] — Six Four; Seventeen; Prefecture D Signed

London, Riverrun; Quercus, 2016-2019. First edition. Hardback. An exceptionally smart, first limited edition three-volume set of Hideo Yokoyama"s acclaimed literary crime fiction, signed by the author and respective translators. In the publisher's original pictorial hardbacks complete with the original wraparound bands.These volumes are limited, first editions, and are signed and stamped by the author, Hideo Yokoyama, and the respective translators on their limitation page.This is a three-volume limited edition set of Japanese literary crime fiction and psychological thrillers, consisting of:Six Four (2016, translated from the 2012 original). This is a limited edition of this work, being number one hundred and sixty five of five hundred numbered first editions.This is a slow-building, deeply psychological police thriller focusing on internal politics, bureaucracy, and the emotional toll of unsolved crimes. This work has been compared to the works of Le Carré for its methodical pacing and institutional paranoia, and to Scandinavian crime fiction for its tone. Seventeen (2018, translated from the 2003 original). This is a limited edition of this work, being number two hundred and six of two hundred and fifty first editions. Based on the real-life 1985 Japan Airlines crash, told through the lens of a newspaper editor grappling with editorial ethics, responsibility, and unresolved guilt.Prefecture D (2019, translated from the 1998 original). This is a limited edition of this work, being number sixty four of two hundred and fifty numbered first editions.A collection of four noir-inflected novellas, all set in the same fictional police precinct. In the publisher's original pictorial hardbacks. Externally, excellent. Just the slightest shelf wear to extremities. Wraparounds, lovely, with just slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Signed and stamped by the author, Hideo Yokoyama, and the respective translators on their limitation pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .