BUYING CHRISTMAS TOYS AND OTHER ESSAYS ... Edited

by Ichiro Nishizaki by Lafcadio Hearn

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Tokyo : The Hokuseido Press, 1939 . Octavo, pp. i-vi vii-ix x 1-166, flyleaf at rear with printed colophon tipped onto recto, original green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained black, cream endpapers. First edition. Collects forty-five sketches and essays written by Hearn for the Cincinnati and New Orleans newspapers in his American days.

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