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KIRKWOOD Kenneth P.. Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn. The Hokuseido press, 1936.
Price: US$64.08 + shipping
Description: - The Hokuseido press, Tokyo 1936, 13x19,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur. - Edition originale. Reliure de l'éditeur en pleine toile sapin, dos lisse, étiquette de titre comportant de légers manques encollée en tête du dos. Iconographie. Rares piqûres affectant essentiellement les gardes. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France
Kenneth P Kirkwood. Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn (INSCRIBED). The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1936.
Price: US$123.45 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Inscribed By Author. CLEAN Fine 1936 First Edition hard cover with good dust jacket. Limited to 500 Copies.
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.
Kirkwood, Kenneth P.. Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn. The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1936.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition, one of 500 copes. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in very good, gift-giving condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Blue nubby cloth-covered boards with paste-down label on front and spine. Light wear to jacket corners. Publisher's intact price slip tipped in at rear. A handsome copy. 12mo. 97 pp. In protective Mylar.
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Kirkwood, Kenneth P.. UNFAMILIAR LAFCADIO HEARN. The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1936.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The author has SIGNED the book with an inscription to Dr. O. D. Skelton, a Canadian scholar, historian and politician. 97 pages in very good condition; clean and white. Illustrated with a sketch of Hearn on the frontispiece, photographs in the text. Lovely design on the endpapers. Black hardcovers with white labels, brown titles on the spine and front cover. No wear on the covers. Black DJ with white titles and illustration. Small chips and tears on corners and edges. The lower jacket has a large closed tear; stained from the old tape. Limited edition to 500 copies. NEAR FINE/VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
KIRKWOOD, Kenneth P.. Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn.. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1936.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 97 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth with printed paper labels, in dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy in a bright jacket with some shallow chipping to the extremities of the spine, not affecting the lettering or design.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Kirkwood, Kenneth P.. Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1936.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing, limited to 500 copies. 97 pp., frontis port. with tissue guard, octavo format in coarse black cloth with spine and front cover labels, dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author to fellow Canadian diplomats in Tokyo ".in warm friendship and with the author's best wishes. Kenneth P. Kirkwood Tokyo, September 1936". Text is Fine with no noticeable wear. The dust jacket is 99% complete, but with considerable edge-wear and a number of tears as expected for its age. Rare in the dust jacket.
Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Kirkwood, Kenneth P.. UNFAMILIAR LAFCADIO HEARN. Signed. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1936, 1936.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition, Limited to 500 Copies, this copy Inscribed by Canadian diplomat and author Kenneth P. Kirkwood. "With the author's love and deepest affection / Kenneth P. Kirkwood / Tokyo / September 1936". 8vo. 97 pp. Fine in black cloth, printed paper labels to the spine and front cover in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper with some light use. From a comprehensive Kenneth P. Kirkwood collection comprising original manuscripts, author's copies, and journals. Size: Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada