The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn

by Elizabeth Bisland

$1,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1906. First edition, 1/200 copies with a page of Hearn manuscript tipped-in. 8vo. 2 volumes: viii, 4 475; 6 , 554 pp. Frontispiece portrait to each volume, illustrations from photographs, plates. The manuscript leaf comes from Hearn's short story collection The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Stories. BAL 7944. Perkins, pp. 55-56. Spine ends a little rubbed, but very good. Original dark green cloth, printed paper spine

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