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Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo., 554 pgs. Black cloth binding, fresh for its age. Gold titling on cover and spine, red oval calligraphy device on cover also. Lacking vols. 1 ,3, & 4 of the set, which had 4 vols. This book has one small scrape on spine. Very good plus condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very nice copy. (see picture) Book has edgewear and some rubbing.Front cover has pulled slightly from the first page.The second free page is loose.All other pages are clean.(Box 173)
Seller: THE BOOK BROTHERS, CHATHAM, ON, Canada
Price: US$16.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 475, 554 p. Ill. Ex-library book (class number, sticker, barcode, stamps, ex libris). Publishing binding a bit worn. I: Front hinge cracked.
Seller: Livresse, Gatineau, QC, Canada
Price: US$19.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The life and letters of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, known also by his Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. Hearn was a 19th Century American writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan. Spine labels are faded; top of spine strip on Volume II has a small tear, name on flyleaf.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 2 only. 554 pages w/illustrations. Light wear to exterior. Cloth exterior with title in gold on spine and front (along w/red design). Gilt top edge. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early reprint with no date on title page, "Published December 1906" on copyright pages. Light wear, all gilt bright, no marks or stains, hinges sound and without cracks, tips just beginning to fray.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . . . . 8vo, hardcovers. No djs, green cloth. Good condition. Ex-library copy, spine labels and rear card pockets removed. Contents clean, no marking or writing, bindings square and tight. 554, 475 pp. 19th, American, Biography, Century, History, Literary, Literature, Travel,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 Vols, pp.xi, 475 pages & 560 pages, very good matching hardbacks, publisher's original blue cloth bindings with gold gilt lettering to the spines and front covers. The covers also each have a red logo.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
Bisland, Elizabeth. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: G. Nice, clean, tight copy of this Two Volume Set in Good condition. Former owner's name and bookplate on front end papers. Covers have minor shelf wear. Location: P16
Seller: From Away Books & Antiques, Greenville, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Description: Volume Two only. 10 b/w illustrations. 554 pp. Slightly yellowed endpapers. Green cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn, small stains. VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 475, 554 pp., Library bookplates (stamped "withdrawn") on pastedowns (offsetting to front fee endpapers) but no other marks Very good copies in the original cloth
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston:Houghton, Mifflin and Company. (1906). 2nd Impression. (xi)+475pp and (1)+560pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. A very good set. Boards with gilt still bright on front cover and spine strip lightly shelfworn. Top edges gilt. Internally, both volumes have previous owners bookplate to inside front board and bookseller ticket to inside rear board. Light foxing is scattered throughout, but often found on pages adjacent to plates. The bindings are tight and all hinges intact. A very good set.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small neat ink name in front. Gilt tops. Illustrated. Index. Small bump along rear edge of volume 2 otherwise clean & bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover/pub. 1906/Gd. condition/478 pages - The travels and correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn . (KE56645z)
Seller: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$46.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's notes on front endpaper. Light rubbing to extremities. Illustrations missing, frontispieces present. Vol. 1: front hinge weakening; Brown boards with blindstamped vignette to front and gilt spine lettering ; 8vo; 475, 560 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good+ edition with some page edge soiling and edgewear to the boards ; The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn is a biography of the Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn. The book is written by Bisland and tells the story of Hearn's life and works.; Vol. 2; 8vo; 560 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good edition that is aged and shelfworn; Lafcadio Hearn was a Japanese-born writer, artist, and traveler who lived in America for most of his life. He is best known for his novel The House of Mirth, which is set in New York City during the 1890s. Hearn also wrote about Japan, its culture, and its people.; Vol. 1; 8vo; 475 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small paper spine labe, blind stamp on title and release stamp on verso otherwise only moderate wear. ; 8vo; 2 volumes, illustrated, index. ** BAL#7944.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete in two volumes. Illustrated. Second impression. Octavos, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edges gilt. Small previous owner's label on the rear paste-downs, rear hinge of Volume II is starting to separate but still firmly attached, else both volumes are very good or better. No dust jackets.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover/pub. 1906/Gd. condition/500 pages - The travels and correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn . (KE56646z)
Seller: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, 2 vols complete, viii + 475 + 560pp, fourteen illustrations, attractive frontispieces featuring portraits of Hearn (head & shoulders & full length in traditional dress), hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Boston and New York, 1906.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs; top edges gilt; Vol.I with 475 pages and Vol.II with 560 pages.
Seller: Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. Two volumes. 8vo. (xii), 476; (vi), 554 pp. Publisher's ribbed dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and upper boards, the latter also featuring oval panels with Japanese characters. contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper of volume I, the recipient's (Rudolph Spreckels) bookplate to the front pastedown. Frontispieces and 14 plates. Dampstain to the fore edge of the upper board and front free endpaper of volume I, some light edge wear, else very good. Perkins, pp.56-7.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$67.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 475, 560. Bound in black cloth stamped red and gilt. A very good set. See BAL 7944 and Perkins p. 55.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volumes. 8vo. Black cloth binding. Frontispiece. Corners bumped and light wear to cover. Inscription of former owner present. Else, in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. I - 475 numbered pp, Vol. II - 560 numbered pp; HB. Complete in 2 volumes. Pages: clean, bright, tight, t.e.g., photo portrait frontis w/ tissue guard; a.e. lt tanned, offsetting to eps of vol 2 from something that was laid in, some residual glue at gutter of sfep. Cover: v dk green ridged, orange logo front, gilt titles front/spine; lt shelfwear, extremities somewhat worn. Very nice. The life of a Greek-born and sensitive author whose legacy was his love of the Orient.
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 1-475 pp, Volume 2-554 pp,listed in BAL7944, illustrated from photos, the top of the page edges are gilded, both volumes are solid and have clean pages, vol. 1 is missing the front endpaper and has a small newspaper clipping concerning Hearn's granddaughter and her move to the Milwaukee in October of 1953, the former owner's name and year is inked on front endpaper of both volumes, the covers have some light wear and soil, however, vol. 2 has 2 intersecting horizontal scratches on the lower portion of the front cover, running most of the width, this is a very usable and tight set.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: two volumes, spines bumped with minor chipping, hinges rubbed, ex Mudie's and City of Carlisle Libraries with their labels (and remains of) to pastedowns, stamps to titlepages and shelf-numbers to spines, illustrated, top edges gilt, scattered dust-soiling, one joint cracked, good, a working set. first edition; 475 and 560 pages including index; keywords: literary collections - letters - biography & autobiography - literary;
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second impression in two volumes. Publisher's black/dark green cloth gilt titled spines, gilt and orange/red stamped covers, top edges gilt, tissue guarded frontispieces. 14 additional b/w plates. Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Boston, December 1906, 475 & 554 pps. VG copies unmarked except for bookseller pencils in Vol.1, slight sun fading and loss of gilt to spines, bright gilt covers and top edges. They both have some edge wear, mostly at spine ends and Vol. 1 has a small split at crown.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-viii [ix-xii] [1-3] 4-475 [476: printer's imprint]; [i-viii] [1-3] 4-554 [555: blank] [556: printer's imprint] [note: first leaf is a blank], flyleaves at front and rear of volume one, 16 inserted plates, original decorated black cloth, front panels stamped in orange and gold, spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges rough trimmed. First edition, trade issue, first printing. The first biography of Hearn. ". authorized and utilizes indispensable material, though it is apologetic and glosses over important facts." - Spiller, et al., eds., Literary History of the United States, third edition, revised (1963) II, p. 558. BAL 7944. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#164058)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Frontispiece in each volume, 14 mostly photographic illustrations, and illustrated in the text with some of Hearn's sketches. 2 vols. 8vo. Black cloth gilt, t.e.g. Spine ends bumped, spotting to spine of Vol. 1, else very good Frontispiece in each volume, 14 mostly photographic illustrations, and illustrated in the text with some of Hearn's sketches. 2 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Second Printing. Frontispiece in each volume, 14 mostly photographic illustrations, and illustrated in the text with some of Hearn's sketches. 2 vols. 8vo. Black cloth gilt, t.e.g. Rubbing Frontispiece in each volume, 14 mostly photographic illustrations, and illustrated in the text with some of Hearn's sketches. 2 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade editions of "The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn" and "The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn", all three volumes bound in original dark blue cloth , stamped in red and gold. Small nick to headband of volume I and very mild shelfwear to cloth. A nice clean set of the standard works on Hearn's correspondence, Very good+ set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description:
Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Black boards with mounted title label on the spine; 475 pp.; richly illustrated. This book is one out of 200 copies produced that include a mounted title card on the spine and a page of Mr. Hear's manuscript tipped in. Scarce. Good (Boards are scuffed/smudged/edgeworn; spine strip is peeling at the top; spine label is heavily toned; textblock edges are toned/foxed/smudged; inner hinge is cracked slightly at the rear hinge; interior is lightly toned at the edges.) First Edition/ one out of 200 copies published.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Volume One only. Original dark green cloth with printed paper label on spine. Extra paper label tipped in rear. Charles Walker Andrews bookplate on front pastedown, paper label on spine a bit tanned, slight spotting on boards, else near fine. One of two hundred copies bound entirely uncut, and containing a page of Mr. Hearn's manuscript. The manuscript in this volume is one verse of the Japanese lyric of *The River of Heaven* in both English and Japanese script with additional notes in Hearn's hand.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: The 1906 "Manuscript" edition. "Of this first edition two hundred copies have been printed and bound entirely uncut, with paper label, and containing a page of Mr. Hearn's manuscript". The manuscript page--in his neat hand-- reads: Asu yori wa Waga tama-doko wo Uchi harai, Kimi to inezute Hitori ka mo nen! [From tomorrow, alas! after having put my jewel-bed in order, no longer reposing with my lord, I must sleep alone!] A crisp, well-preserved, VG+ copy in its dark cloth. Still firm and tightly-bound. Very slight darkening to the spine label, otherwise clean as could be. Thick octavo, 475 pgs., deckled fore-edge and bottom-edge.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1464.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In 2 vols. First edition, one of 200 copies bound uncut and containing a page of Hearn's original autograph manuscript (in this copy, notes regarding a haiku of Funay?rei; Japanese marine ghosts; Erimoto ye / Mizu kakeraruru / Kokochi seri, / "Hishaku kase" cho / Fune no kowane ni. / etc.). viii,475pp./ 554pp. Original dark green cloth with paper spine labels and extra labels tipped in at the rear. Titles of labels are; LAFCADIO / HEARN / LIFE AND / LETTERS / I (and II) / ELIZABETH / BISLAND / First Edition. With frontis.and illus. Title label of spine sunned and spine sl.scratched. All edges somewhat darkened. Exlibris of Charles Williston McAlpin to front paste down of each vol. 23x15.5cm. [f0194-170193]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; two volumes. One of 200 copies with a page of Hearn manuscript tipped in, which reads: '.house. On the north-east side of it there was a well; and several former tenants had drowned themselves in that well, without any known cause. But Matsumura, being a Shinto priest, had no fear of evil spirits; and he soon made himself comfortable in his new home [typographical note in Hearn's hand].' This is the finest set we have seen; brilliant copies in the original dust jackets and publisher's paper-covered cardboard slipcase with printed label. The dust jackets have minor chips and wear and are offset where they touched the inside cardboard of the slipcase. There is minor soiling and edge chipping to the paper covering of the slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Bisland, Elizabeth. The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1906.
Price: US$1875.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, the issue of 250 copies bound uncut, and with a page of Hearn's autograph tipped in; 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [12], 475, [1]; [6], 554, [2]; 15 plates; original black cloth, printed paper labels on spines; generally a fine copy, but with the top corners (thumbnail size) torn off of the first two leaves of text in the second volume (no loss of any letterpress). The manuscript page begins with an inscription in Japanese: "Yuki-Onna - / Yoso kushi mo / Atsu kori; / Sasu - kogai ya / Kori manuran." This is followed by ten lines regarding the "Snow-Woman and her best comb" and the "kogai" - "the name now given to a quadrangular bar of tortoise-shell passed under the coiffure." BAL 7944.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes in original green cloth with paper spine labels and extra labels tipped in at the rear. One of 200 large-paper copies with an ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAGE of Hearn's, in this case an excerpt from THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY. In full: "accomplishments made Busanshi suspect that she had been brought up in the court of some prince, or in the palace of some great lord. She displayed a perfect knowledge of the etiquette and the polite arts which are taught only to ladies of the highest rank; and she possessed astonishing skill in calligraphy, in painting, and in every kind of poetical composition. Busanshi presently fell in love with her, and thought only of how to please her. When scholar-friends or other visitors of importance came to the house, he would send." Touching inscription from a husband to his wife in the year of publication on the front endpaper; light wear to spine tips. Very Good, lacking as usual the dustwrappers and slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 200 copies, entirely uncut, containing a page of Hearn's manuscript. Illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and 14 plates. 475; 554pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Deluxe Edition with A Page of Manuscript. The manuscript talks of "I am only the Soul of a peony." Perkins pp.55-56; BAL 7944 Dark green cloth, paper spine labels, uncut. Bright, tight set in custom half green morocco slipcases with chemises Illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and 14 plates. 475; 554pp. 2 vols. 8vo First Edition. One of 200 copies, entirely uncut, containing a page of Hearn's manuscript.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Bisland, Elizabeth. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, (MA), 1906.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1/200 copies with a page of Hearn manuscript tipped-in. 8vo. 2 volumes: viii, (4) 475; (6), 554 pp. Frontispiece portrait to each volume, illustrations from photographs, plates. The manuscript leaf comes from Hearn's short story collection "The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Stories." BAL 7944. Perkins, pp. 55-56. Spine ends a little rubbed, but very good. Original dark green cloth, printed paper spine labels. Housed in a custom maroon quarter-leather slipcase (spine a little nicked), each volume in a chemise. (#5655).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.