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Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] [1-2] 3-241 [242] [243: blank] [244: colophon], title page printed in blue and black, original blue boards with tan shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 550 numbered copies. Weird sketches, Hearn's "impressions of the strange life of New Orleans," published in the DAILY CITY ITEM and the TIMES-DEMOCRAT between 1879 and 1884. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 789. Bleiler (1978), p. 97. Reginald 07008. BAL 7955. Private owner's bookplate on the front paste-down. Slight spine lean, spine panel a bit darkened, boards rubbed and lightly worn at edges, a sound, good copy with tight, clean interior. (#173219)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Fantastics and Other Fancies. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston MA, 1914.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A collection of Hearn's stories and essays edited by Charles Woodward Hutson. 242pp. Contents are very good. Covers show some wear -- corners lightly worn and spine has some small spotting caused by loss of sizing (glossy outer coating) on cloth. ; 12mo
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Hearn,Lafcadio. Fantastics and Other Fancies.. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.,, 1914.
Price: US$58.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Edited by Charles Woodward Hutson. First edition. x,242pp. Orange cloth of spine with title label on spine & Japanese paper boards. 18.9x11.8cm. Front & rear cover sl.sunned. Its spine sl.stained & stained. Title label sl.rubbed. All edges partly sunned. Front & rear ep. & fly leaf partly sunned. Some pages unopened. [s06041-213196]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 242 p. Good condition; chipped paper label on spine
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.43 + shipping
Description: pp242 `hairy' paper boards, orange hard cover spine with titling label. Minimal bumping to corners, edges sl. spotted, else a very good copy in like dust jacket.
Seller: Louella Kerr Books, Petersham, NSW, Australia
Price: US$117.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1914. (published November 1914). First edition, first issue. 550 numbered copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge in October 1914. (This copy is no.16) ix,(1),241,(2)pp. Blue paper covered thick boards, no lettering on boards. Beige cloth spine, brown title label (faded) with gilt lettering. Untrimmed edges. Ex-libris.(James McCarthy Hadley) pasted on front e.p. With an original black slip case. Front and rear boards sl.darkened. Spine sunned. Edges and e.ps.sl.foxing. A small bookshop label pasted on front e.p. Pencil notation to rear e.p.and flyleaf. Slip case somewhat worn at edges, spine title label sunned. 18.3x11.8cm. [f0922-171014]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Hearn, Lafcadio. Fantastics And Other Fancies. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1914.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: 240 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Edited by Charles Woodward Hutson -- thirty-five imaginative sketches written during his New Orleans tenure. Limited edition, copy 359 of 575. Bookplate. Fresh, crisp copy, partly unopened; slight flaking to covers. BAL 7955. Orig. two-toned cloth: cream spine and navy cloth covers with spine label printed in gilt. Very good/near fine.
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] [1-2] 3-241 [242] [243: blank] [244: colophon], title page printed in blue and black, original blue boards with tan shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 550 numbered copies. Weird sketches, Hearn's "impressions of the strange life of New Orleans," published in the DAILY CITY ITEM and the TIMES-DEMOCRAT between 1879 and 1884. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 789. Bleiler (1978), p. 97. Reginald 07008. BAL 7955. Just a touch of rubbing to boards, a nearly fine copy in worn paper slipcase. (#164059)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.20 + shipping
Description: (x) + 242 (ii) pages, 18 x 11 cm; blue papered boards with beige linen spine, edges uncut, blue paper title label, lettered in gilt on the spine, a lovely copy with the bookplate of the author Helena May Whitney, on the front pastedown, in the original publisher's slipcase, worn & chipped at the edges. Issued in a limited edition of 550 copies of which this is No.129. Stories from Hearn's writings for the New Orleans Item, and Times Democrat. First edition.
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
HEARN, Lafcadio. Fantastics and Other Fancies. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1914.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Edited by Charles Woodward Hutson. 12mo. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. A fine copy in near fine publisher's slipcase with slight chipping on the fore-edge. Limited to 550 numbered copies. This is the publisher's reference copy, with a bookplate stating thus on front pastedown and with the signature of an editor dated in 1936 on the bookplate.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1914.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. x, 242. Edited by Charles Woodward Hutson. A fine untrimmed copy. Limited to 550 numbered copies. BAL 7955; Perkins pp. 68-69; Johnson p. 230. Lacks the oublisher's plain box. Short stories.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.