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Hearn, Lafcadio. KIMIKO AND OTHER JAPANESE SKETCHES .. Houghton, Boston and New York, 1923.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-58 [59-60: blank], frontispiece illustration, original decorated boards printed in green and purple. First separate edition. Collects "Kimiko," "The Nun of the Temple of Amida" and "Haru," all previously collected in KOKORO (1896). Issued as part of Houghton Mifflin's popular "Evergreen Series," promoted as "ideal for the home library, or as gifts of distinction that appeal both to the taste and to the pocket-book." BAL 7980. A fine copy. (#164133)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Kimiko and other Japanese sketches. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1923.
Price: US$31.25 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, 16mo, pp. 58; frontispiece; original green decorative boards printed in dark green and purple; near fine. Reprinted excerpt from the author's Kokoro (1896). Forms part of the Evergreen Series. BAL 7980.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press. 1923 Hardcover First edition thus and reportedly the first separate edition [originally published in Koroko in 1896]. Green decorated/pictorial boards with purple lettering, 58 pages collecting 3 stories/sketches, frontispiece [which reproduces the artwork from the Dust Wrapper front panel]. Christmas gift inscription affixed to the front free endpaper else spine cocked very good copy with wear and light rubbing, in Good pictorial jacket with heavy edgewear/light chipping, browned, some edge tears, spot stain to the top of the rear panel. clphE
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Hearn,Lafcadio. Kimiko and Other Japanese Sketches.. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.,, 1923.
Price: US$88.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [The Evergreen Series] First edition. 58pp. With a frontis. Green boards bound. 17x10.7cm. Front & rear cover sl.stained. Joint of front cover partly cracked. Its spine sunned. All edges partly sunned. Front & rear fly leaf sl.sunned. [s06043-213198]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
HEARN, Lafcadio. Kimiko and Other Japanese Sketches. , 1923.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: HEARN, Lafcadio. Kimiko and Other Japanese Sketches. Original printed fancy paper-covered boards, non-priceclipped dustjacket. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First edition. BAL 7890. Small dent to head of spine, gift inscription, else a very good copy in a slightly worn, lightly water stained d/j.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$146.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. (3),4-58pp. With a b/w frontis. Light green dust wrapper with illus.in green on front cover and red lettering. Thick green paper boards with pattern of evergreen trees in darker green, purple lettering to front board and spine. Dust wrapper chipped and partly missing, somewhat stained, sunned at spine. Corners of boards sl.rubbed, spine sunned, edges foxing. E.ps.and pages light foxing. Ownership stamps ("From the estate of V.R.D.Kirkham PhD") on rear flyleaf and its verso with pencil notation. 17.2x11cm. [f0916-171008]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$206.10 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: KIMIKO: AND OTHER JAPANESE SKETCHES [THE EVERGREEN SERIES] [title on front board as: KIMIKO AND OTHER TALES] First Edition Thus. First edition thus Green decorated/pictorial boards with purple lettering, 58 pages, frontispiece [which reproduces the artwork from the Dust Wrapper front panel]. An uncommon title .no writing no tearing. see picture on left.
Seller: Henry E. Lehrich, Allentown, PA, U.S.A.