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Lafcadio Hearn. The Boy Who Drew Cats, rendered into English (Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 23). T. Hasegawa, 1898.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 18 crepe de chine pgs. n.d., circa 1900s. Cover shows some discoloration and rubbing wear along extremities. Purple silk string binding is secure. Interior pages show light scattered foxing, text and illustrations are otherwise clean. Some soiling to ear panel.

Seller: BooksElleven, Three Oaks, MI, U.S.A.

HEARN, Lafcadio.. The Boy Who Drew Cats. The Old Woman Who Lost her Dumpling. Chin Chin Kobakama.. T. Hasegawa, Publisher & Art Printer, Tokyo, 1898.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn. 3 vols. Illustrations in colours. 12mo, publisher's wrappers illustrated in color, sewn Japanese style as issued. The tree volumes are preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Cats: BAL 7930, Printing A (no priority). Dumpling: BAL 7937, early printing. Chin: BAL 7939, Printing C (no priority). Beautiful unworn copies with very slight bumping at corners. Printed on crepe paper. Japanese Fairy Tale Series Nos. 23, 24, and 25.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Hearn, Lafcadio (Koizumi Yakumo ( 1850-1904) and Takejir Hasegawa (18531938). Japanese Fairy Tales: The Goblin Spider,The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling, The Boy Who Drew Cats,Chin Chin Kobakama. T. Hasegawa, Publisher and Art Printer, Tokyo Japan, 1898.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: These are four,4 volumes in this set all printed in chirimen (crepe paper) format and each bound with a tied, tassled string, then inserted loosely into leather carriers and all in an as new black leather slip case. The four volumes are The Goblin Spider,The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling, The Boy Who Drew Cats,Chin Chin Kobakama all translated by Hearn. Three measure 7.5" x 5.5" while the fourth, The Goblin Spider, measures 6" x 4.125" with the slipcase measuring 7.875" x 6".They are in excellent condition with no negative issues and will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.

Seller: Longs Peak Book Company, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.

Crepe paper. Lafcadio Hearn. Japanese Fairy Tales.. Hasegawa,, 1898.

Price: US$2246.74 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: ("The Goblin Spider.", "The Boy Who Drew Cats.", "The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling.", "Chin-Chin Kobakama.", "The Fountain of Youth."). Crepe-paper ed. 8vo. 5 vols. A good set. Original portfolio. ("The Boy Who Drew Cats, First ed., 1898.", The Goblin Spider, 3rd ed., 1926.", "The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling, 1937.", "Chin-Chin Kobakama, 15th ed., 1925.", "The Fountain of Youth, 3rd ed., 1930.")

Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan