Mishima (Yukio) Taiyo to Tetsu [Sun and Steel], first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Kinemaro Izawa in Japanese to endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, some surface cockling to laminate, but near-fine generally, original card slip-case with printed wraparound band (some splitting to band, the slip-case a little rubbed and browned), 4to, Tokyo, Kodan-sha, 1968.

⁂ Mishima's autobiographical essay, focusing in particular on his later love of fitness and bodybuilding, inscribed to a friend and close associate. Kinemaro Izawa featured heavily in the final years of Mishima's life and as the author withdrew from the world in the build up to his suicide, Izawa acted as his conduit to the outside. The day before his suicide Mishima wrote his final farewells to several people including Izawa to whom he entrusted his will and preparations for his funeral.