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Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii-ix] ii [sic, x] 1-841 [842: blank] [i]-x: index, [1-2: publisher's note] [3-6: blank], printed colophon tipped onto recto of last blank leaf, inserted frontispiece, cloth-backed boards. Third edition, revised. The revised third edition (the last and best edition). The text was edited from the notebooks of Hearn's students who attended his lectures on poets delivered at the Imperial University of Tokyo between 1896 and 1903. This edition includes most of Hearn's lectures on English poets, eight of which are first published here. This is the second volume (of three) of the "Complete Lecture" series. See BAL 8028. Spine panel a bit sunned, a nearly fine copy. (#164123)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very nice example of Japanese book production Western style. The compiler was Hearn's last student at the University of Tokyo in 1901 who attended these lectures twice, and wrote up his notes to extraordinarily good effect thirty-nine years later. They really do seem to convey Hearn's thinking in detail, and it is said that he wrote down every word and faithfully copied the diagrams. 500copies printed.
Seller: The Calico Cat Bookshop, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
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Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
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Description: 181pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Dark red cloth covered boards with printed paper title labels on the spine and front cover. Very good. The cloth on the front board has multiple ripples. The largest ripples are about 1/2 of an inch wide by 1/2 inch thick. The spine ends and edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. Very minor spine lean. There is a bookseller's tiny label on the front free endsheet. Tanned pages. In a very good dust jacket. Ever so slightly soiled. The spine is mildly darkened. There is a date and price written in pencil on the front inside flap. One of 500 copies. Lafcadio Hearn was a well-known journalist, author, educator, translator, and interpreter of Japanese life.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. On Poetry. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo:, 1941.
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Description: dark-maroon cloth & stained top edge w/ gilt lettering on spine; front cover ruled w/ pub name blindstamped at bottom; red symbols on endpapers; 750 pgs w/ class-photo frontispiece & 9-pg index; orig pub note, & copyright ticket attached at back; photo-illus dust jacket w/ decorative border; Y2000 on front flap, rear flap & back blank; slipcase has black lettering; shorter version orig pub in 1934 on 30th anniv of Hearn's death; printed in Japan. edited by R.Tanabe, T.Ochiai & I.Nishizaki. fine copy in fine dust jacket in nf slipcase; only small dent, repaired, to lower spine of cardboard case; elegant & compact.
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
[KISHI, SHIGETSUGU.]. Lafcadio Hearn's lectures on Tennyson. The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1941.
Price: US$531.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 181; on p. [183] is a tipped in publication slip with the note "Limitad [sic] Edition 500 copies printed;" fine copy in the jacket. The author was Hearn's last student in the Imperial University of Tokyo who 39 years later "undertook to rewrite them, and at last completed them, when my hair was grey, and I was almost decrepit." BAL 8045.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.