Lafcadio Hearn. Gombo Zhebes": Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs. WILL H. COLEMAN, 1885.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover is slightly bumped on the bottom corner edge, otherwise cover is in great condition it no visible flaws apart from some light handling wear. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hearn,Lafcadio. Gombo Zhebes".. New York: Will H. Coleman,, 1885.
Price: US$37.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects. Translated into French and into English, with Notes, Complete Index to Subjects and some Brief Remarks Upon the Creole Idioms of Louisiana. 42pp. Xeroxed Copy. Black cloth with gilt title on spine. 26x18.7cm. Front & rear cover sl.stained. Small spotted on top & fore edges & rear fly leaf. [s06046-213201]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$56.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: As is. Red leather bound. Needs rebinding as front cover is missing. Marbled endpapers with gilt top edges. Pages unmarked with the exception of a marking on the inside front flyleaf. Some pages have small soil stains outside the textblock. The pages are slightly yellowed with foxing on the side edge. Front flyleaf is discolored around the edges. The spine has serious wear and tears but the binding is secure. Back cover has wear and scuffs around the edges.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Hearn,Lafcadio. Gombo Zhebes".. New York: Will H. Coleman,, 1885.
Price: US$149.63 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects. Translated into French and into English, with Notes, Complete Index to Subjects and some Brief Remarks Upon the Creole Idioms of Louisiana. 42pp. Rebound blue cloth with gilt title on front cover. 21.2x16.5cm. Front & rear cover partly sunned. Its spine sunned & sl.rubbed. Upper & lower part of spine sl.torn. All edges partly sunned. Partly water stained on many pages. [s06029-213184]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$224.44 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: First edition, third issue. (4), 324pp. With a b/w frontis.and 13 b/w plates (facing to pp.12, 44, 60, 76, 92, 108, 124, 140, 172, 188, 204, 236, 252). A large folded map of New Orleans missing. Printed wrappers. Bound in beige paper, black lettering and illus.of alligator to front cover. Inside of rear cover has advertisement of Gombo Zhebes and La Cuisine Creole. Spine broken, and front and rear covers, flyleaves, and title page detached. Front cover worn and light stained. Rear cover worn, sl.stained, torn and partly missing. Margin of pp.52, 124 sl.spotted. Edges foxing and pages light foxing. A small bookshop label pasted on front e.p. 17.6x13.5cm. [f0952-171044]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Lafcadio Hearn.. Gombo Zhebes".. Will H.Coleman,, 1885.
Price: US$224.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Little dictionary of Creole proverbs, selected from six Creole dialects. Translated into French and into English, with notes, complete index to subjects and some brief remarks upon the Creole idioms of Louisiana. First ed. Large 8vo. 42pp. 2 leaves of publisher's advertisement. Original decorated cloth, slightly rubbed, binding slightly weak.
Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Attractively bound in the publishers dark green cloth ruled with three horizontal bars at the top and bottom of the front panel which features the title "Gombo Zhebes" in a golden double crescent circle against a silver sea. Heavily worn and rubbed at the corners; light rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine ends and along the front edge of the spine. Otherwise, very clean and tight throughout; virtually unread or unstudied. With two pages of publisher's ads at the end of the book. Koizumi Yakumo (1850 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was a Irish-Greek writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West.[1] His writings offered unprecedented insight into Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Before moving to Japan and becoming a Japanese citizen, he worked as a journalist in the United States, primarily in Cincinnati and New Orleans. His writings about New Orleans, based on his decade-long stay there, are also well-known.Hearn was born on the Greek island of Lefkada, after which a complex series of conflicts and events led to his being moved to Dublin, where he was abandoned first by his mother, then his father, and finally by his father's aunt (who had been appointed his official guardian). At the age of 19, he emigrated to the United States, where he found work as a newspaper reporter, first in Cincinnati and later in New Orleans. From there, he was sent as a correspondent to the French West Indies, where he stayed for two years, and then to Japan, where he would remain for the rest of his life.In Japan, Hearn married a Japanese woman with whom he had four children. His writings about Japan offered the Western world a glimpse into a largely unknown but fascinating culture at the time.(Wikipedia) First Edition. With matching dates of 1885 on the title and copyright pages; no subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$299.26 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition, first issue. 42,(2)pp.(pagenation does not account for the leaf of "Creole Bibliography"). With two leaves of publisher's ad. Blue cloth, gilt crescents on front board with black title. Rear board and spine without lettering. Beige e.ps. Boards somewhat rubbed, sl.stained, and sl.worn at corners. Spine sunned, rubbed, worn at edges and chipped. Edges and pages light foxing. A small bookshop label pasted on front e.p. Front flyleaf anf title page torn along hinges. 22x17.3cm. [f0977-171069]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Lafcadio Hearn. Gombo Zhebes. Will H. Coleman, New York, 1885.
Price: US$335.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original olive gilt cloth. Thin 4to. Gombo Zhebes. Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from six Creole Dialects and translated into French and into English by Lafcadio Hearn. Complete index to subjects and some brief remarks upon the Creole Idioms of louisiana. Lovely copy, bright, however, there are small spots scattered, minor distractions for such a very good tight copy of a rare book by that rare American genius, Lafcadio Hearn. 1850 to 1910.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$499.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original decorated brown cloth (hardcoer), [ii], [1]-[8], [7]-42, [4] pp. ads. Fine in a protective cloth jacket with calf lable. Literature, Creoloe, Vernacular, Americana. TWS
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$562.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 5, [1], [5]-[42], [4] ads; a number of small red ink markings in the margins by Waring Jones, collector, philanthropist, playwright and grandson of the famed collector, Herschel Jones, else a very good, bright copy in original ochre cloth stamped in black, gilt, and silver. BAL 7914.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$581.25 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Turquiose silver and gold deco on front came from phila area book collector auction still has original paper book band
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 7914; Perkins pp. 6-7 Original cloth. Slighly shaken, remnant of attempted bookplate removal apparent on front pastedown, offsetting of bookplate to flyleaf, signature of former owner
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$28125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 5, [1], [5]-[42], [4] ads; original turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, black and silver; minor spotting, else very good. This copy enhanced by a presentation from the author, "J. B. McCormick, Esq. with best wishes of Lafcadio Hearn. Sept. 8/86." Also with a 40-word holograph correction in the text signed with initials by Hearn (in proverb 139, "Gambette ous trouvé."). Presentation copies of Hearn are very rare. There has only been one other inscribed copy of a Hearn title at auction in 40 years, and even that was 36 years ago. BAL 7914.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.