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Hearn, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1889.
Price: US$25.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, no dj - from a private collection -
Seller: BOOK2BUY, Lynbrook, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Description: Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, 204 pp. A three-part book of fiction by this international writer. G (Moderate wear to head and heel of outer spine, otherwise only slightly aged.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory Of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$45.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Binding soiled and spine darkened, binding cocked, number stamped on tp, text tight and in good condition. Suitable for reading or reference; not a collector's copy. ; 4 p. L. , [3]-204 p. 19 cm.; First edition.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND. Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, 1889.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback in Very Good condition without dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 204 pages. Light rubbing along board edges. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *
Seller: Easton's Books, Inc., Mount Vernon, WA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Chita : A Memory of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rubbing and wear to spine and spine ends, corner. A few spots or small stains to page edges and margins.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio.. Chita: A Memory of Last Island.. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: [6] 204 pp. [4, ads] pp. 8vo, original decorated salmon cloth, gilt-lettered. First Edition. BAL 7918. Very slight rubbing to extremities of the cloth: a clean, tight and sound copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Octavo, original terra cotta cloth decorated in black, grey, and gilt. Novel about the 1856 hurricane in Louisiana. BAL 7918. Good to very good, light wear.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Chita, A Memory Of Last Island. NY; Harper & Bros; 1889;, 1889.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st ed.; VG w. dec.,salmon col. cvr , lt wear, prev. own. inscr, scarce.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Lafcadio Hearn. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, fictionalized account of the of the Hurricane of 1856 that struck New Orleans and substantially altered and destroyed, L'Isle Dernière. Bound in rust red cloth over boards with coral-like design in brown with black edges; unique gilded characters spell the title on the cover, with repeat of the title and coral on the spine - author's name in black. Rubbing at edges and hinges with some fraying at corners; slight lean, holding firmly. Dated (1890) pencil signature on ffep and small old bookstore sticker on front pastedown. The interiro is clear of any other inscriptions, markings, or notations; lightly and evenly toned, clean, and clear. BAL 7918. Pages:(6) 204 (4 ads) Dimensions:7½ x 5¼ x 1.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hearn,Lafcadio. Chita:. New York & London: Harper & Brothers,, 1889.
Price: US$110.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Memory of Last Island. 204pp. Brown cloth. Top edge darkened. 19.2x13cm. [s02513 -203898]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [6], 204 pp., plus 4 pp. publisher's ads. Brick-red decorated cloth, coral and sea star Arts & Crafts motifs front cover & spine (minor rubbing, very minor bumping to head of spine, couple corners), still a VG bright copy, from the library of Irving Brooks, w/ Art Deco bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this moody and striking novella, the author's first, set against the backdrop of a young Creole girl who survived the 1856 Last Island Hurricane which destroyed the pleasure resort island, including all of the structures. Hearn has designed the novella to detail the story of Chita, a supposed orphan, growing up in the family of a fisherman who later finds her survivor father. BAL, 7918.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 204, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 7918 Original terra cotta cloth, decorated in brown, black and gilt. Some marginal staining at the bottom of pages, else VG
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND. Harpers, 1889.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND, Harpers, 1889, first edition, light rubbing to the spine extremities and fore edge corner tips, else a tight vg+ copy in the publishers highly decorated brown cloth binding. A very nice copy. The authors first novel. Set in Louisiana.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. Harper, New York, 1889.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HEARN, LAFCADIO. Chita: A Memory of Last Island, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889.12mo, first edition, pp. 204, 4 (ads), salmon-colored cloth boards with gilt lettering and brown and black stamped decorations to spine and front, bookplate and inked ID on front paste down. Set amid Creole culture in and around the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana. See BAL 7918, Merle Johnson p. 229.Condition of this book:Minor edge wear and browning to fore edge. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55095.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (19cm); russet cloth, with titling and decorations in gilt, black, and gray on spine and front cover; [x],204,[4]pp ads. Light wear to spine ends and extremities, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some faint, scattered foxing to endpapers; Very Good+. An attractive copy of Hearn's first novel. BAL 7918; WRIGHT III, 2620.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., 204pp., 4pp. ads; VG; bound in reddish-brown cloth, spine has gold lettering for title and brown lettering for Hearn; minor bumping to corners, head and tail of spine; upper fore corner of front board has a minor tear to cloth; tipped in bookplate on inside front board; previous owners name in ink on ffep, dated 1889; opposite of copyright page is the dedication page; title page states 1889; interior clean; SHELVED ROCKVILLE NON-RETAIL. 1266885. Rockville Non-Retail Listings.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. harper, New York, 1889.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, terra cotta pictorial cloth, N.Y.: Harper, 1889. First Edition. The binding is slightly dulled, and the book has a slight lean.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. , 1889.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: HEARN, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. Orig. decorated cloth. N.Y.: Harper & Bros., 1889. First edition of Hearn's scarce third book. BAL 7918. A near fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
HEARN, LAFCADIO.. Chita. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889, 1889.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Only the most minute wear; a fine, fresh copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. CHITA: A Memory of Last Island. , 1889.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. 4 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown and black. First Edition of Hearn's third book, following STRAY LEAVES (1884) and SOME CHINESE GHOSTS (1887). During the summer of 1884, while living in New Orleans, Hearn had gone for a rest to Grand Ile, in the Gulf of the Mississippi. There he witnessed a tidal wave disaster that gave him the outline for CHITA; the book is essentially a series of vivid descriptions unified by its account of a lost child. This is a fine, clean copy (the slightest of rubbing at the extremities) of this handsomely-bound book. Blanck 7918. Housed in a cloth slipcase, this copy bears the small leather "Blairhame" bookplate of the noted collector Mrs. J. Insley Blair.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. harper, New York, 1889.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, terra cotta pictorial cloth, N.Y.: Harper, 1889. First Edition. A bright copy, with a neat old ownership signature, and very slight wear at the extremes of the spine & corners.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$378.19 + shipping
Description: First edition. 204 pp. 19 x 13 cm. Hearn's first epistolatory novel, set in Grande Isle near New Orleans and the 1856 hurricane. It was serialised in The Times Democrat before being published by Harper in 1889 as a first edition of 2000 copies. The rear pastedown has a small publisher's label for Hansell's booksellers, New Orleans. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling. Minor rubbing to boards and spine extremities, owner's name on the ffep.
Seller: Saintfield Antiques & Fine Books, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
HEARN, LAFCADIO. Chita: a Memory of Last Island. Harper & Brothers, 1958, New York, 1889.
Price: US$410.89 + shipping
Description: 8vo. First Novel. Endpapers with very faint, offset tanning; light wear to spine extremities and corners, otherwise a fine, bright copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lafcadio Hearn. Chita:. Harper & Brothers, N.Y.,, 1889.
Price: US$440.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Memory of Last Island. First ed. 8vo. 204, (vi)pp. Original reddish-brown cloth, slightly rubbed, owner's signature on end-papers. With rare dust jacket. A good copy. Perkins 15
Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan