Stray Leaves from Stray Literature. Stories Reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheïli, Baitál Pachísí, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc.

by Lafcadio Hearn

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 vols. Square 8vo. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Slightest rubbing at spine ends, a Fine copy. Perkins pp. 5-6; BAL 7912. Item #235775 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

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