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Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition with wear and markings, ex-library.
Seller: GridFreed, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 468 p. Ill. Call number and stamps 9some on edge) of library. A bit wear to publishing binding.
Seller: Livresse, Gatineau, QC, Canada
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Vintage Edition in a partial jacket that has been torn into 3 pieces. No date on the title page. Brown cloth. ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio.. The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn.. Houghton Mifflin, 1910.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 468pp. Edited by Elizabeth Bisland. Roughly opened, one page torn, worn at crown of spine, front hinge weak. A good-only copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: D. Richards, Bookman, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ownership note dated 1936; pencil notes on rear endpapers; occasional penci lines in margins.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$23.16 + shipping
Description: Re-bound super octavo hardcover, pencil annotations (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Bisland, Elizabeth. The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. lx, 451pp. Extremities lightly worn, else very good in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a near fine first trade edition published November 1910, dark green cloth binding with gold lettering on the cover and spine, no DJ. 468 pages with index.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small paper library label on spine, embossed stamp on title with release stamp on verso else VG. ; 8vo; lx, 468 pages; Illustrated, index. **BAL 7950.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
. JAPANESE LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN.|THE. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. original green cloth stamped in red and gilt on the cover, gilt on spine. 468 pages. Edited with an introduction by Elizabeth Bisland. First edition designed by Bruce Rogers (The Works of Bruce Rogers 754). A near fine copy. Printed by The Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA. Frontispiece, with illustrations. A very scarce book. original green cloth stamped in red and gilt on the cover, gilt on spine
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
. JAPANESE LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN.|THE. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. original brown cloth samped in blind on the cover, gilt on spine. 468 pages. Edited with an introduction by Elizabeth Bisland. First edition designed by Bruce Rogers (The Works of Bruce Rogers 754). Bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper. Minor rubbing to spine, else a near fine copy. Printed by The Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA. A very scarce book. original brown cloth samped in blind on the cover, gilt on spine
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Bisland, Elizabeth. The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$37.53 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full-bound brown cloth, 468pp w Index. Bump to lower front corner, edge foxing. A nice tight copy. ". in the foremost ranks of the world's great letter-writers."
Seller: Maxwell Books, Port Hadlock, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston:Houghton Mifflin Company. 1910. 468pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Boards are lightly shelf-worn, with wear to spine ends and edge points. The lower edges show an old damp stain which can also be seen on the lower page edges. Otherwise, internally a very good clean copy with just light foxing on the end-papers. The hinges are intact and the binding tight. *The bulk of these letters were addressed to Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain, to whom, more than to any other correspondent, Hearn gave his best and richest efforts. In them is shown perhaps better than anywhere else, the wide rage of his mental excursions, his insatiable intellectual curiosity, the dignity and beauty of his character, the gradual deepening and purifying with time of the graver aspects of his though. *Bisland. **This is a heavy book and postage overseas will be at cost.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafacadio. THE JAPANESE LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some pages uncut; Edited by Elizabeth Bisland. Top edge gilt ; 8vo; 468 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Bisland, Elizabeth (editor). Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Houghton and Mifflin, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Boards: edgewear, rubbed. Text: clean, bookplate; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 468 pages
Seller: Archives Book Shop of East Lansing, MI, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. The Japanese Letters. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edited with and Introduction by Elizabeth Bisland. Illustrated. 8vo, black cloth, Boston: HOughton Mifflin, 1910. First trade edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Previous owner's name in a neat hand on front free endpaper. The dust jacket is chipped, tape-repaired with several pieces missing, BUT it is there, and it has protected the book quite well. Internally the book is pristine. Contents include: Letters to Basil Hall Chamberlain, Letters to W.B. Mason, Letters to Mrs. Hearn, and an index. Introduction by the editor. 468pp. Size: Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Description: First trade edition (there was also a limited edition of 200 copies), BAL's state A of the binding imprint; 8vo, pp. [2], lx, 468, [2]; Illustrated with photogravures and reproductions of sketches by Hearn; front hinge cracked else very good in orig. green ribbed cloth stamped ion red and black. The letters are to Basil Hall Chamberlain, W.B. Mason, and Mrs. Hearn. BAL 7950.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Hearn, Lafcadio. The Japanese Letters Of Lafcadio Hearn. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: 468 pages. Edited by Elizabeth Bisland. Six illustrations. Index. The letters are to Basil Hall Chamberlain, to W.B. Mason and to Mrs. Hearn. The majority of letters are to Professor Chamberlain. Hearn was a shy man; the letter format suited his need for intimate communication and mental companionship -- in Ms. Bisland's view. Orig. black cloth lettered in gilt, decorated in red. Teg. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: unopened, extremeties rubbed. ; 8vo; lx, 468 pages, illustrated, index. **BAL 7950.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio. The Japanese Letters. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1910.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edited with an Introd. by Elizabeth Bisland. Illus. Thick tall 8vo, cloth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. First Edition. Fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited to 200 copies. "bound uncut with paper label". A few marks to cloth, paper label scratched affecting a couple of letters in the editor's name (Elizabeth Bisland); spine ends worn. Clean spare label tipped in at end.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, limited to two hundred copies, bound uncut. Slight wear to the paper label, with a replacement label bound to the rear. Bookplate of a previous owner facing the half-title, with minor offsetting. Another previous owner's name on the title page ("Clara C. Rittenhouse, March 1917), and a small bookseller's label to the rear endpaper ("H.H. Evans, San Francisco"). Scuffing to front and back covers, bumping of corners. Darkening of the pages with age.
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade Edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 7950 (A spine imprint) Original black cloth gilt, t.e.g. Some minor shelf wear to extremities
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardcover (1910,c.1910) in blue boards with paper title label to spine, of this first edition two hundred copies have been printed and bound entirely uncut as stated on rear side of half title page, published November 1910 as stated on copyright page, 468 pages with photo illustrations, first edition paper label bound in rear, well preserved inner hinges, no handwriting, small stain to lower edge of title label on spine and inside edge of top page deck near spine gap
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$227.79 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., lx, 468, [1 leaf]. with half-title. 6 plates (incl. 2 photogravures). original cloth, t.e.g. (extremities very slightly frayed, slight discolouration to lower spine). First Trade Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. The book was also issued in a limited edition of 200 copies. Very minor cover wear, otherwise fine in a very good, age-darkened dust jacket with shallow chips on corners and spine ends, except for the one at top of spine which is about three-quarters of an inch and affects "cadio" in spine title. A rare dust jacket. RARE DUSTWRAPPER
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 475; 554; 468pp. Large octavos [24 cm] 3 volume set. Illustrated. Dark green cloth covered boards with paper spine labels. Fore and bottom edges deckled. Housed in purple cloth four-fold covers and custom half purple morocco slipcases. Books are very good in like slipcases. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. There is a previous owner's name in top fore-edge corners of the front free endsheets. The text blocks are cracked at the half title pages. There are numerous notations in neat pencil on the rear endsheets. The spine labels of volumes 1 and 2 are just a little chipped. The rear pastedown of volume 2 has an adhered newspaper clipping, and the rear free endsheet has a corresponding dark patch. The slipcases show light wear and soiling, and sporadic areas of sun fading. The largest amount of fading is present on the rear of the slipcase of volume 1. The four-fold folders are bright and crisp. Large paper copies, of which only 200 were made. With a page of Hearn's original handwritten manuscript tipped in at the beginning of volume 1 of The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Cited on pages 55 and 59 of Lafcadio Hearn: A Bibliography of His Writings by P.D. and Ione Perkins.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.