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Price: US$9.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Biography of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, who was a writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories. Includes a bibliography by Laura Stedman. Illustrated, 416 pages. Cover has light wear/soils; inner hinges loose.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Contains an 80-page bibliography of material pertaining to Hearn. Octavo bound in cloth and paper-covered boards. B&W illustrations. Condition: small tears (about 1/3") to top of front & rear outer hinges; stain to lower corner of front cover and corner of most pages; first endpapers toned; else good. 416 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xv [xvi] [1] 2-272, five inserted plates, original blue cloth, front panel lettered in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel lettered and ruled in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First British edition. The first critical study of Hearn's writings. According to Dr. Gould, "Of Lafcadio Hearn there has been, and there will be, no excuse for any biography whatever." ". a biased attack, with some new facts." - Spiller, et al., eds., Literary History of the United States, third edition, revised (1963) II, p. 558. In 1887 George Milbry Gould (1848-1922), "physician, ophthalmologist, editor, author, . wrote to Lafcadio Hearn who was at that time in the West Indies, an expression of his great admiration of certain of Hearn's translations. Hearn replied, and a long correspondence ensued which resulted in the removal of Hearn to the United States. When he called at the doctor's office in Philadelphia he was invited to become a guest at Gould's house, an invitation which he readily accepted. It would be difficult to conceive two characters more widely different than those of the physician, dogmatic and scientific in nature, and the irresponsible, unmoral dreamer. It is possible that Gould was interested in Hearn from a scientific standpoint, and he made every effort to reform the latter's erratic and erotic character, but he frequently expressed his admiration of Hearn's literary attainments and there is no doubt that he treated his guest with the utmost kindness and consideration. In 1908, after the publication of Elizabeth Bisland's uncritical biography of Hearn, he issued an analytical volume, CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN . Gould's professional life was tempestuous. His theories and contentions, particularly in connection with the effects of eyestrain, which he held to be one of the great fundamental causes of ill health, both physical and mental, were regarded by his contemporaries as not on radical but false, though they are today widely accepted . Nevertheless he had devoted friends and ardent admirers both in and out of his profession . He had a marked literary gift, and it was perhaps for his contributions in the fields of medical lexicography and medical journalism that he was most widely known during his lifetime." - DAB. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips, spine panel tanned, some tanning to paper stock, mostly the first two leaves, a sound, good copy. (#164114)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Gould, George M.. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn. George W. Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1908.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Very good with light rubbing and bumping to edges. The boards have very light soiling. Gould's calling card has been mounted on the front pastedown
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1 of 2000 copies printed. Biography of this literary giant, who wrote primarily about matters Japanese, and in fact was also known by the Japanese name of Koizumi Yakumo. 335 pp. biography itself, to which is appended an important early bibliography by Laura Stedman of 80 pp. 7 plates (including frontis). Tan cloth over brown boards, with brown debossed titling to front, gilt to spine. Moderate edgewear and slight separating at shelf-points to spine caps. Front hinge started, but solid,as is rest of book. Top edge trimmed, others not.
Seller: The Sensible Magpie, Creswell, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, 1908. Bound in beige paper boards with brown cloth spine. Slight wrinkling to spine cloth and light edge wear only. The contents show very slight loosening at hinges, a paper stain (4" X 2 1/2") and a 1" chip at front endpapers. The text remains clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is splitting, taped and chipped, remains Good.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First printing. An important early bigraphy of Hearn with a very detailed 80 page bibliography by Laura Stedman. One of only 2,000 copies, in original cream colored boards with brown cloth spine, brown lettering on front cover. Illustrated with 7 plates. In fragile condition - the cloth spine is torn, front hinge is broken, rear hinge cracked, corners bumped - but the text block is in good condition, (prev owner's name.)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Gould, George M. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn. George W. Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1908.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small repair at front inner hinge.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 416pp. Octavo [20 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with tan paper covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a brown ink stamped title on the front board. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. The spine is very subtly indented. The front hinge is weak. There is a bookseller's tiny label on the front free endsheet. The text block is cracked at the beginning. Yellowed pages. With a bibliography by Laura Stedman.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
HEARN, LAFCADIO. CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN. , 1908.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Description: (HEARN, Lafcadio). CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN. By George M. Gould. With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, (1908). First edition. 8vo., brown cloth spine, stamped in gilt, tan paper-covered boards. Short tears along either side of crown, and a vertical crease the length of the spine. The boards are lightly soiled, corners mildly bumped, hinges starting. An acceptable copy of an unusual book.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$81.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. 416; portrait frontispiece, very good and sound in contemporary half green cloth over marbled boards. An important and early study; the bibliography - the first done of Hearn - is extensive (though not comprehensive) and occupies the last 80 pages. BAL IV, p. 103.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
GOULD, George M.. CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN. , 1908.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: GOULD, George M. CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Company, May, 1908. First edition. 416 pp. including bibliography at rear. 8vo., brown cloth spine stamped in gilt with tan paper covered boards stamped in brown. In fair dust jacket, split at front joint, chipped and darkened spine, light soil. Excerpts from prose, poetry and letters.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 416 Pages, Including The Extensive Bibliography Pp 336-416. Brown Cloth Spine, Gilt, Over Tan Boards With Dark Brown Lettering, Top Edge Stained Brown; Also Issued In Blue Clth, Gilt. Book Is Near New, Very Slight Bumping And Rubbing At Corners, Signature Of "Chas. E. Steifle" (? It's A Bit Hard To Read) On Ffep And The Small Contemporary Bookseller's Label Of The Methodist Publishing House (Kyo-Bun Kwan) Books And Stationary, 1 Shichome, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, An Interesting Origin., Unmarked Internally. Tan Dust Wrapper With Lettering In Brown, Reproducing Lettering On Book, Chipping At Top And Bottom Of Spine, Affecting 4 Letters Of Title ( Of Which The N Of Hearn Is Missing). A Few Other Small Chips/Tears.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Gould, George M.. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn. George W. Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1908.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. 416pp. Bookseller ticket, bookplate and Estelle Doheny collection tag on front pastedown, extremities worn, otherwise very good in publisher's cloth backed boards. Lengthily inscribed by Gould to the original owner on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.