The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn

by Elizabeth Bisland

$1,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. 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:

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