New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. Full cloth binding Book Club hardcover in a

New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. Full cloth binding Book Club hardcover in a jacket. Square and unmarked. 374pp. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Now in a new mylar cover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. 2nd printing. Full blue cloth binding.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. 2nd printing. Full blue cloth binding. Unmarked, square copy. 374pp. Dust jacket shows some light wear, offered now in a new mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. First edition. First printing. Hardcover.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Full blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt front-board device. Two tiny white splotches on the front cover. A tight, clean copy. Publisher's original price of $10.95 on the front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. 374 pp. Trevanian's fourth novel. "Shibumi" follows the enigmatic assassin Nicholai Hel as he becomes entangled in a geopolitical struggle with the Mother Company, blending espionage, history, and philosophical training into a global revenge narrative. Rodney William Whitaker (19312005), who wrote under the pen name Trevanian, was an American novelist and film scholar whose fiction spanned multiple genres and achieved international bestseller status; he also wrote under the names Nicholas Seare, Benat Le Cagot, and Edoard Moran, and published "The Language of Film" under his own name. Whitaker said his wife chose the pen name Trevanian based on her appreciation of the English historian G. M. Trevelyan. Whitaker became a reclusive literary figure whose real identity was closely guarded for many years; between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each. In 2011, Don Winslow published "Satori, " a prequel to "Shibumi" exploring Hel's early adulthood; out of respect for Trevanian, Winslow sent the first 100 pages of the draft to Whitaker's daughter and executor for approval.