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Lafcadio Hearn. OUT OF THE EAST: Reveries And Studies In New Japan.. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1895.
Price: US$13.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows wear. Pages are clean and intact.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Out of the East, Reveries and Studies in New Japan. Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1895.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 341pp, small octavo. heavy soiling and cover wear, stain to front cover and spine, soiling to page edges, tight binding, owner name, clean throughout, Good
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early reprint bound in dark green cloth with gilded titles, designs and top text block. Bright copy and contents showing very light shelf wear only, Very Good plus. Small "D" written on the inner paste down, otherwise contents remain unmarked.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Lafcadio Hearn. Out of the East Reveries and Studies in New Japan. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1895.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Fading to spine. Minor wear to board edges & corners, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - Early printing. An appealing small volume containing a collection of eleven sketches on different aspects of life in Japan. Top edge gilt. 341 pp. Very good in olive green cloth with gilt titles and decorations (sunning to spine, some pages still unopened,upper corner torn on one leaf)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. OUT OF THE EAST" REVERIES AND STUDIES IN NEW JAPAN. , 1895.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston 1895 first edition. Houghton Mifflin. sm8vo. Hardcover. brown cloth with gilt trim. Top edge gilt. 296p. VG end papers unevenly toned; hinges not cracked; binding secure; text clean; no owner marks.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Yellow cloth with bright silver cover title and decoration. 1895. First edition. 341p plus 2p publisher's ad. printed on nice quality paper. Previous owner's gift inscription in pencil 2nd fep dated May 30, 1895. One small spot fox in front gutter 1 3/4" up from bottom; else contents vg, clean and tight. Light cover soil to front cover with darkening to spine. Further info upon request.
Seller: Osee H. Brady, Books, Assonet, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 341 [2, ads] pp. 8vo, original green gilt cloth. Third printing. See BAL 7927. Old ink ownership signature and bookplate; light use to cloth; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
HEARN, LAFCADIO. OUT OF THE EAST REVERIES AN STUDIES IN NEW JAPAN. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN, AND CO, 1895.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GENERAL WEAR, RUBBED EXTREMITIES, BOOKPLATE FRONT INNER COVER, PO NAME ON TITLE PAGE, TANNED, GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE AND COVER, DATE PUBLISHED: 1895 EDITION: 341
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1895 Copyright Date, No Date On Title Page, No Later Date Or Indication Of Printing, Thus A Later Printing In 1895. Green Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. A Clean, Unmarked Copy, Light Wear At Corners, Light Fraying At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, No Marks, Front Hinge Beginning To Crack But Quite Solid
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Out of the East. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1895.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in green cloth with unique string design in bright gold, decorative cloth. Previous owner's neat name and year to front free endpaper. Top edge gilt is still bright. 1895 listed on obverse of title page with sevin previous books by the author listed on the half-title page. 341 pp. Scarce in this proteced condition.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Yellow cloth with silver devices and titles. A Very Good hardcover first edition with soiling to boards and spine. Hinge papers torn byt hionges still tight. Internally clean, binding square and tight.
Seller: a cool of books, Mastic, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tight but cloth soiled; [5], 341p. , ads. **BAL 7927, 1st printing.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 341 [2, ads] pp. 8vo, original yellow buckram decorated in silver. First edition, first printing. See BAL 7927. Cloth hand-soiled with minor edge wear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Description: Contents: The Dream of a Summer Day; With Kyushu Students; At Hakata; Of the Eternal Feminine; Bits of Life and Death; The Stone Buddha; Jiujutsu; The Red Bridal; A Wish Fulfilled; In Yokohama; Yuko: A Reminiscence. A touch of rubbing at top and bottom of spine but overall a very fine copy, tight, clean, barely opened. Green cloth stamped in gold. 341 pp. 12 mo
Seller: Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Out of the East. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1895.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine, lacking the jacket. Green buckram, faded at the spine, pushed at the corners, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, former owner's name and date on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A collection of eleven essays about Japan and Japanese life.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: OUT OF THE EAST: Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn. First American edition, published 1895 by Houghton, Mifflin & Company. Yellow cloth with silver title on spine and front board. Hinges are sound, text block is very crisp and clear. Endpapers are very lightly toned. No dust jacket. Pencil note by previous bookseller on free front endpaper. Lower front corner bumped. Lightly soiled boards. Soil to top edge of text block. A very good copy. See photos.
Seller: Cedar Tree Antiques, Upland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Silver stamped cloth. Designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Darkening on the spine, bumped corners, and slight cracking on the front hinge else very good, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Out Of The East" Reveries And Studies In New Japan. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1895.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 341 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Book-label of Boston Bookseller. Publisher adverts at rear. BAL 7927. Backstrip darkened with small nick at head. Orig. yellow cloth with spine lettering and decorations in silver. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Out of the East Reveries and Studies in New Japan. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1895.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Yellow HB with silver lettering on front and spine/slightly worn and soiled, esp. Spine/owner sticker on front end page with; 8 vo; 341 pages; Its shadow imprint on adjacent flyleaf
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.13 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling and toning. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 341 pages; Description: 341 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Japan --Description and travel. Hearn, Lafcadio 1850-1904 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾. Book. 341 pp. VG. Tight, clean inside. Some sunning to spine.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. Designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Yellow linen cloth boards with silver lettering and decoration, top edge stained yellow. Small contemporary owner's name, darkening to the spine, very good. A handsome copy. *BAL* 7927.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. OUT OF THE EAST. Houghton Mifflin, 1895.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: OUT OF THE EAST, Houghton Mifflin, 1895, first edition, some dust-soiling to the yellow cloth binding as usual, else a tight vg copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$91.60 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling and toning. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 341 pages; Description: 341 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Japan --Description and travel. Hearn, Lafcadio 1850-1904 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Ochre cloth with silver decorations and corners. Light-colored cloth slightly soiled, neat name on front free endpaper, very good overall.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.49 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages; Physical desc. : 341 p. ; 19 cm. Subject: Japan - Description and travel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages; Physical desc. : 341 p. ; 19 cm. Subject: Japan - Description and travel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$131.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, printing 1. 8vo., orig. mustard cloth, 341, (342)blank, (343) adverts. BAL 7927. Name, spine slightly darkened o/w near fine.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Hearn, Lafcadio. Out of the East. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1895.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. BAL #7927. 8vo, original yellow cloth lettered and decorated in silver. A few pages with foxing or small stains. Very good hardcover without dust jacket.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Out of the East. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1895.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. BAL # 7927. Octavo. Original yellow cloth over boards, silver decorations and lettering on covers and spine. Reveries and studies in New Japan. Very good, very light discoloration to covers and spine, spine lightly sun faded, a few pages with small stained or foxing.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$181.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. 341 pp. A very good copy. FIRST EDITION. Eleven stories by Hearn about his adopted Japan. Among them are: The Stone Buddha, Jiujutsu, In Yokohama, The Dream of a Summer Day and others.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gilt strung binding design to spine, T.E.G. Corners have 1cm square glit block and are slightly bumped. Dated on verso of title-page 1895. List of 7 other Hearn titles on half-title.
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
HEARN, Lafcadio. OUT OF THE EAST; Reveries and Studies in New Japan. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1895.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 341 + adv. Bound in yellow cloth stamped in silver by Sarah Whitman. Perkins pp. 27-28; BAL 7927. A very good tight copy. First Edition, first issue bulking 1-1/8 inches and adv. as noted by Blanck.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. OUT OF THE EAST.. , 1895.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: Reveries and Studies in New Japan. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow cloth decorated in silver. First Edition, first printing (with the leaves bulking 1-1/8 inches, and with the preliminary and terminal ads as indicated by Blanck). This is a collection of eleven pieces by Hearn, about his adopted country. The binding design is by Sarah Whitman. This copy is in near-fine condition (scarcely any wear at all, but with very minor darkening of this extremely soil-prone yellow cloth). Blanck 7927. Housed in an open-backed slipcase, this copy bears the small leather "Blairhame" bookplate of the noted collector Mrs. J. Insley Blair.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Out of the East": Reveries and Studies in New Japan. , 1895.
Price: US$302.50 + shipping
Description: HEARN, Lafcadio. "Out of the East": Reveries and Studies in New Japan. Original yellow linen stamped in silver, housed in custom tan morocco-backed cloth slipcase with inner cloth chemise. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. 8vo. First edition. BAL 7927, first printing with this title described in publisher's advertisement as "16mo, gilt top, $1.25." Some penciled marginal notes, rear inner hinge starting, else very good or better.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.