Works of Lafcacio Hearn, 1/750 large paper sets
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Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
Title: [Works, i.e.]The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
Place Published: Boston & New York
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1922
Description:
Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
Title: [Works, i.e.]The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
Place Published: Boston & New York
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1922
Description:
16 volumes. Plates from photographs, woodblock prints, etc., some mounted and in color; tissue guards. (8vo) 22x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾"), half brown morocco & cloth, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. No. 19 of 750 sets of the Large Paper Edition.
With manuscript leaf by Hearn inlaid to size and bound in at front of Vol. I., as issued; inserted leaf also at front of Vol. I signed (in Japanese) by Hearn's widow Setsu Koizumi, as issued. The manuscript leaf by Hearn begins "II. When six years old I was condemned to sleep all by myself in a certain isolated room..." Each volume with the armorial bookplate of Selden, smaller circular armorial bookplates of Lynde Selden.
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Chipping and wear to spine ends, joints rubbed and tender, corners showings, spines dry; internally very good or better, largely unopened.
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Works of Lafcacio Hearn, 1/750 large paper sets
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