Hearn, Lafcadio. Stray Leaves from Stray Literature. Stories Reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheïli, Baitál Pachísí, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc.. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1884.

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.