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Price: US$145.93 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition, first issue. Published in an edition of 2500 copies. 225pp. Blue cloth, black lettering to front board, gilt lettering to spine, with black decorative design to front board and spine. Boards sl.rubbed, sl.worn at corners, a faint dark stain on front board. Spine darkened, worn at edges, and a small scar at the hinges. Edges foxing. Hinges of e.ps.loose and torn (not detached). A small bookshop label pasted on front e.p. Pages sl.foxing. 17.3x13.1cm. [f0951-171043]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
HEARN, Lafcadio. Stray Leaves from Strange Literature. Osgood, Boston, 1884.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, original dark royal blue cloth, printed in black. Boston: Osgood, 1884. First Edition. The author's first book. Bookplate & ownership signature; preliminary pages dog-eared. inner hinges cracked; spine rubbed at extremes.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. Stray Leaves from Strange Literature. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1884.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth over boards, black stamped decorations and lettering at front cover and spine, gilt lettering at spine. Good, spine ends and corners bumped, spine darkened, front hinge badly cracked but holding, ex-Brooklyn Free Spiritual Library with ink stamp on half title pate, lacks front free end paper, bookplate at front pastedown of author Paul Horgan, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 225 pp. 12mo, publisher's blue decorated cloth. First edition. BAL 7912. Tiny Aug. '84 ownership signature on front free endpaper; slight darkening to the endsheets and the fore-edge of p. 94; spine slightly sunned; with very slight rubbing to the cloth. Tight and sound. Author's first book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE. James R. Osgood & Co, Boston, 1884.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Author's first book. 225pp. Bound in olive green cloth lettered and decorated in black, spine lettering gilt; some bubbling of cloth, front hinge cracked; a clean bright copy, of author's first book.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE. James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1884.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Stories Reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheill, Baital, Pachisi, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. Blue-green cloth with decorations and lettering stamped in black and gilt. BAL 7912. First issue of author's first book, preceded by a translation. Housed in a half green morocco slipcase with matching green cloth chemise. Small stain to the margins of several pages. Front hinge with some cracking, as often the case, but still tight. Slight rubbing and soiling to covers, gilt on spine still bright. Near Fine housed in a Very Good half morocco slipcase with rubbing to the raised bands and spine tips of the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo. 225 pp. Original dark blue cloth with front cover decoratively stamped in black, and spine stamped in black and gilt. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. A very good, tight copy. First edition of Lafcadio HearnÕs first book, first issue, with ÒJR.O.&. COÓ at the foot of the spine. BAL 7912.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
LAFCADIO HEARN. STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE.. BOSTON, JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, 1884.
Price: US$530.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: STORIES, RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE ANVARI-SOHEILE,BAITAL PACHISI,MAHABARATA,PANTCHATANTRA,GULISTAN,TALMUD,KALEWARA,ETC. First Edition, 225pp. original light green cloth, gilt title and decoration in black on spine, title & decoration in black on front cover, front hinge cracked,private ex-libris on front end-paper 17.5x13.5cm
Seller: Kitazawa Bookstore, ABAJ/ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue, with JR.O.&. CO at the foot of the spine, square foolscap 8vo (6¾ x 5), pp. (1-7), 8- 225, (1) blank. Original black decorated light green cloth, gilt lettered back, in custom folding green cloth chemise & green morocco backed green cloth slipcase. Very good clean copy in fine custom morocco & cloth slipcase. Back gilt a little worn, corners a bit bumped. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. The Doheny copy with Estelle Dohenys oval gilt stamped green morocco book plate on the front paste down endpaper. Lafcadio Hearns first book, BAL 7912. H8317.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 225 pp. 1 vols. Square 8vo. F.B. Sanborn's Copy. "Hearn wrote all of these tales with the ultimate idea of collecting them in a book so, while drawn from many diverse literatures, they were homogeneous in form and treatment. As each one was finished it appeared in the Times-Democrat - a sort of dress rehearsal that gave him one more opportunity to refine before it came out in collected form." (Tinker, Lafcadio Hearn's American Days, 1924). The book was issued in an edition of 1000 copies A notable book with which globe-trotting author Lafcadio Hearn shows ninteneeth-century America looking to the literatures of India and the world. Signed on the flyleaf by the great collector of Thoreau, Whitman, and other nineteenth century American authors, "F.B. Sanborn Concord June 28 1884". Perkins pp. 5-6; BAL 7912 Original orange cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Front inner hinge cracked, slightest rubbing at spine ends, a very good copy
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.