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Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. Blue-black cloth over boards, with bright orange lettering to spine, and Hokoseido Press colophon, in blind, to rear board. Bookstore ticket to front pastedown from bookstore in Honolulu. Introduction by Albert Mordell. Tiny bit of rubbing to corners, but overall book is very clean and tight. Dustjacket was in three pieces, now repaired, but still extremely fragile. Dustjacket spine is darkened, and shows foxing to front and rear panels. Contains the first appearance in English of several of Loti's articles. (T"he Massacres of the Annamites" and "The Capture of Tonkin" ".The most important translations Hearn ever made. 'Neither our DeQuinceys nor our Coleridges nor our Byrons could have written such things -- prose more poetical than all English poetry.'. Loti stirred Hearn to greater depths of enthusiasm than did any other author. In him Hearn found a writer who had literary tastes similar to his own." "His greatest successes were gained in the species of confession, half-way between fact and fiction, which he essayed in his earlier books. When all his limitations, however, have been rehearsed, Pierre Loti remains, in the mechanism of style and cadence, one of the most original and most perfect French writers of the second half of the 19th century." (Wikipedia). Very Good Plus in Fair Dust Jacket
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. With an Introduction by Albert Mordell. Owner's small ink name to front flyleaf, scattered light foxing else a near fine copy in very good dust jacket with foxing and toning and shallow chipping at the crown. Uncommon title.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.