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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: San Francisco: The Westgate Press and the Grabhorn Press, 1930. Limited Edition of 350 copies. Octavo (9" x 5.75"); 111p. Portrait frontis and facsimiles with tissue guards. Linen covered boards with patterned cloth spine and title card. In stiff green paper outer cover with matching title card. Pages mostly uncut. Covers curved inward with some toning along edges, but clean and square overall. Outer cover chipped at head and tail with toning along spine. Book opens easily to between a few gatherings, with some separation starting after facsimile letter opposite page 73, but binding is holding. Pages are unmarked. [AB-306]
Seller: Recycled Books, Denton, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, clean dj - from a private collection - Westgate Press and the Grabhorn Press, 1930. Limited Edition of 350 copies. Octavo (9" x 5.75"); 111p. Portrait frontis and facsimiles with tissue guards. Linen covered boards with patterned cloth spine and title card. In stiff green paper outer cover with matching title card. facsimile letter opposite page 73
Seller: BOOK2BUY, Lynbrook, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 112 page hardcover with frontis tipped-in portrait of Hearn, 3 facsimile letters and 2 leaflets with printed tissue guards - beautifully printed by Grabhorn Press in a limited edition of 350 copies. Binding is quarter linen (blue pattern and paper title label) and board with a light floral pattern. Presented in a Japanese green board folder with 2 bone and silk ribbon clasps. Folder is good condition, but some folds are delicate. Contains the story of the literary controversy revolving around his biography and the unpublished letters between Hearn and Joseph Tunison. Unusual and attractive.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Together with a Group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published. One of an edition of 350 copies printed in May, 1930, at the Grabhorn Press. Bound-in is a facsimile letter with tissue guard. Minor bumps to bottom corner, else fine in light blue boards backed in blue cloth with printed spine label.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, variant binding. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Pp. [10], 110, [2]. Facsimile photograph tipped in, 3 facsimile letters, 2 facsimile leaflets, printed tissue guards. Dark gray cloth spine, patterned floral cloth boards, printed paper spine label. Title page slightly soiled, but a fine copy. Includes the previously unpublished letters from Hearn to Tunison and an account of the controversy surrounding the three different biographies (official and unofficial) which were written about Hearn. The binding is a noted variant with floral sides printed in dark green, red, gray, and black on a cream background. [Grabhorn: 133].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Patterned-silk spine with decorative boards, printed spine label. Inscribed to ffep by printer Edwin Grabhorn to his sister- and brother-in-law, Alice and John Robertson. Limited to 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn press. Boards bow slightly else fine condition. Housed in a Japanese chemise with printed spine label, two ivory clasps and silk ribbons. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 111 pages; Signed by Associated
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.76 + shipping
Description: Tipped in black and white portrait frontispiece illustration and five facsimiles with captioned tissue-guards, (viii) +112 pages, 22.5 x 14 cm, pearl grey decorative boards, figured silk spine with paper label lettered in black, ornaments printed in red, uncut edges, a near fine copy in the original publisher's chemise case with bone clasps, the ribbon for the clasps lacking, else a near fine copy. Also included is a folded 4 page publisher's announcement sheet promoting the forthcoming publication. Perkins p. 128. Publisher's description: "Including the unpublished correspondence of Elizabeth Bisland, H.E. Krebbiel, Joseph Tunison, Henry Watkin and Dr. George M. Gould relating to the attacks on Hearn published after his death, and comprising the record of the bitterest controversy in American literary history." Published in May, 1930, by the Grabhorn Press, in an edition of 350 copies.
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Price: US$206.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to 350 copies. 110 (1) pp. The mystical and rich imaginative imagery continued after his death created not only romantic and occult interest but a heated debate among scholars. The so-called Hearn controversy flared up soon after his death in Japan, when Elizabeth Bisland published his LIFE AND LETTERS (1906). Although her intentions were perfectly honorable, Bisland, glossing over certain aspects of his life, did her best to idealize her erstwhile friend. Her version, however, did not go unchallenged by another friend, George M. Gould. Introducing some new facts which were often insightful but blatantly twisted, Gould, in CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN (1908), concentrated his attack on those vulnerable sides of Hearn's personality. Surveying the whole controversy, Oscar Lewis, in HEARN AND HIS BIOGRAPHERS (1930), declared Hearn to be "the most loved and the most hated figure in recent literary history." This volume was the first to deal with the many views of Hearn. Bound in 1/4 decorative silk cloth over decorative paper covered boards, paper spine label. A fine copy with boards just a bit bowed, housed within a green paper covered chemise with ivory like clasp. An exceptionally nice copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One Of 350 Copies. Black Cloth On Spine, With Spine Label Printed In Black; Plain Grey Boards. Inscribed By Lewis To Bibliophile And Author Melba Berry Bennett, And With Her Bookplate. Wear At Spine Edges And Corners, Wear At Tips And Tiny Frays At Lower Tips. Illustrated Bookseller's Ticket Of Gelber Lilienthal Inc. Of San Francisco, Major Retailers Of Grabhorn Books; Gelber Illustrated For Grabhorn. A Very Early Oscar Lewis Inscription.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Tipped-in Portrait Photo of Hearn and 5 facsimiles. 111 pp. 1 vols. BAL 8015; Magee 133 Original decorated silk-backed gray boards, laid in publisher's original green boards, with bone clasps. Very fine copy Tipped-in Portrait Photo of Hearn and 5 facsimiles. 111 pp. 1 vols First edition, one of 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: Printed light gray paper boards, black and tan cloth spine; 110 pp; 5 facsimiles, bw portrait. Portrait and each facsimile accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Green slipcase with small title block on spine. Printed at the Grabhorn Press in edition of 350 copies. The first published letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison. "Lafcadio Hearn was a Greek writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West."- Website. VG/VG- (pages very clean and clear, binding is tight, light age toning,
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.