Hearn, Lafcadio. Leaves From the Diary of an Impressionist, Creole Sketches and Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn [The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Large-Paper Edition, vol. 1 -- no. 238 of 750 copies]. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$47.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: xxix, [1], 298, [2] p., color frontispiece and 3 leaves of black-and-white illustrations, all with captioned tissue guards; 23 cm. Orange-brown cloth spine with dark brown paper over boards; dark brown paper spine label printed in gilt. Frontispiece is color plate within decorative border. The 3 black-and-white plates are from photographs by Charles S. Olcott. Title page printed in red and black. From a limited edition of 750 copies this is vol. 1 from the 16-volume set numbered 238. Signed in Japanese by Hearn's widow. BAL, 7977. Pages are unopened. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: lacking part of spine label; corners are rubbed; pages are clean and tight.

Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.

Hearn, Lafcadio. Edited by Elizabeth Bisland. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1922.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Description: The Large Paper Edition of Lafcadio Hearn's collected writings. Octavo, 16 volumes bound in full blue levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, elaborately gilt citron levant morocco doublures, watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt with others uncut, ribbons bound in, tissue-guarded tipped-in frontispieces in color. One of 750 numbered sets printed at the Riverside Press, this is number 653. Volume I is signed by Hearn's second wife, Koizumi Setsu, in Japanese characters. In fine condition. An exceptional set. Koizumi Yakumo, born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was a Japanese writer of Greek-Irish descent best remembered for his books about Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904). After emigrating to the United States at the age of 19, Hearn was sent as a correspondent to the French West Indies, where he stayed for two years, and then to Japan, where he would remain for the rest of his life. His best known works on Japanese subjects include: Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897), Exotics and Retrospectives (1898), In Ghostly Japan (1899), and Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.