Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, pictorial cloth in matching pictorial dust-jacket. Illustrated with numerous drawings and pictorial endpapers by the Nakatsuchi brothers . A diary of the author's impressions of life in Japan based on his experiences during a residency of fifteen years. Text block untrimmed. Previous owner's book-plate affixed inside front cover-almost entirely obscured by dust-jacket flap. Dust-jacket spine browned from age and mild rubbing and wear along top edge of jacket. Bulked sheets show light staining along top edge. Original Japanese stamped price label tipped-in at rear and covered by rice paper. Small 4pp. list of adverts for the Hokuseido Press, including works by Lafcadio Hearn, laid-in. Cloth covers and interior generally clean. Very good copy in good dust-jacket.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.59 + shipping
Description: Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press 1934. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (xii 750 xpp.). With tipped-in label at end of text. Fine.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Hearn, Lafcadio. Complete Lectures On Poets. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 841 pp. Pages are tight and clean. Spine is cracked and binding is loose, but intact. Previous owner's inscription on endpapers. Minimal shelfwear to the cover. Endpapers are browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Poetry; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001672. Additional shipping charges may apply.
Seller: Lotzabooks, Oak Point, TX, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio [Ryuji Tanabe Et Al., Ed]. Complete Lectures on Poets. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1934.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good, hinge cracks & old tape stains, still firm & servicab
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Presumed first edition w/SD & NAP, hardcover in full dark green cloth with gilt stamped titling to the spine and a dark top edge treatment, the rear hinge is cracked but solid, the book has moderate bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, slight sunning to the spine, some rubbing with a few faint spots and smudges to the covers, and minor foxing starting to the edges of the text block, otherwise a solid, tight Near Very Good copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$83.99 + shipping
Description: 841 + x pages, 22 x 14.5 cm; dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, top edge coloured black (as issued), silk tie marker, endpapers browned, a prior owner's name neatly written on front free endpaper, very faint spotting to text block, a very good firm copy. Lectures presented by Lafcadio Hearn while occupying the chair of English Literature in the Imperial University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1903, nine of which are published here for the first time.
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Hearn, Lafcadio. COMPLETE LECTURES ON POETRY. , 1934.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tokyo 1934 1st Hokuseido. Edited by R. Tanabe, T. Ochaiai and I. Nishizaki. An intensive study of poetry. Hardcover. Large octavo, 750pp., index, green cloth. Near Fine.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Complete Lectures On Poets. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 841 pp. Pages are tight and clean. Light shelfwear to the cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Poetry; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001777. Additional shipping charges may apply.
Seller: Lotzabooks, Oak Point, TX, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Complete Lectures on Poetry. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: There are a few white splotches on the cover and edges, but not on the interior. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 750 pp. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Moderate shelfwear to the cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001776. Additional shipping charges may apply.
Seller: Lotzabooks, Oak Point, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 974+48 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Top corners bumped. DJ has wear to edges w/ mild chipping to corners. Spine sunned. Lightly soiled. Comes in original box. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$162.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original printed and illustrated wrappers sewn with silk cord in bow, 19x13cm, 52pp. Illustrated in b/w. Wrappers and first page showing a little wear, else a good copy of this rare publication. Preserved loosely in contemporary or earlier hardback, paper-covered folder. Used; Very Good Mainly on Lafcadio Hearn, his life and works with a number of pages devoted to other authors.
Seller: Marijana Dworski Books, Presteigne, POWYS, United Kingdom
Price: US$299.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With an introduction by Sanki Ichikawa. Limited edition: 200 copies of the book have been issued in Japan, and the present copy is no.93. xvii,444pp.+plates. Crimson cloth boards, gilt title to spine. T.e.g. With a frontis.and 5 plates. Front inner hinge (first page of 'introduction') somewhat broken, else very good. 25.5x17.5cm. [aj664-101772]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 750pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. The top edge of the text block has the publisher's black dye. With a dust jacket, and in the original stiff card box. Very good. There is a very short tear in the bottom edge of the front board along the joint. The text block is cracked at the beginning. Bookseller's label on the title page. Check marks in pencil on the Contents pages. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Faded at the spine and folds, and very lightly age-toned, creased and soiled. The edges are heavily chipped, and have multiple small open and closed tears. The slipcase is in very good condition, with light scratching and general mild rubbing and soiling. There are a couple of short gouged scrapes on one of the side panels. The edges of the paper title label on the spine are a bit chipped. Includes Some Poems on Death, Epigrammatic Poems, Poems on Night, Two Mystical Rose Poems, and more.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Third Edition, Revised and one-volume edition Edited by Ryuji Tanabe and Teisaburo Ochiai. Revised by Ichiro Nishizaki and A. Stanton Whitfield. Large octavo. 976pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket and near fine publisher's chemise and slipcase.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hearn,Lafcadio; Kazuo,Koizumi ed.. Japanese Goblin Poetry.. Tokyo: Oyama shoten,, 1934.
Price: US$449.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With an original preserved box. Bound in Japanese navy cloth. With many illus. A preserved box sunned, rubbed and chipped. Front and rear boards sl.stained. Rear flyleaf foxing. Some pages light spotted. 43.5x32cm. [wh0389-706953]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$599.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition: 200 copies of the book have been issued in Japan, and the present copy is no.105. xvii,(3),444,(3)pp. With a b/w frontis.and 5 b/w plates. Maroon cloth, blind embossed emblem on front board, gilt lettering and emblem on spine. T.e.g. With original yellow dust jacket and slip case. Ex-libris. (M.H.Ohta) designed by Osamu Shibuya pasted on front flyleaf. With a flyer of this book (sunned). Fore and bottom edges spotted. E.ps.somewhat foxing. Pages sl.foxing and some pages light spotted. Tissue guard of plates facing to pp.45, 171 and 208 missing. Dust jacket foxing to brown, chipped, sl.torn and a small bookshop label pasted on front flap. Slip case somewhat sunned, rubbed and sl.stained. 25.5x17.6cm. [f0983-171075]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan