NMLP P-045743 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · Chikuma Shobō, Tokyo · 1948
First English edition: New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1958, translated by Donald Keene; bound in orange cloth (some copies described as quarter/half cloth) with brown and gilt spine lettering; dust jacket designed by Owen Scott after a color woodblock print by Kiyoshi Saitō. New Directions first printings of this period carry no number line — identify the first printing by the absence of any later-printing statement on the copyright page, with the priced jacket present at the flap
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045743 for "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045743, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).