HEARN, Lafcadio.

£2,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Japanese Fairy Tales. A fine set of Hasegawa's crepe-paper folklore stories, four volumes still with the tissue wraparounds. He first issued Lafcadio Hearn's stories as standalone volumes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before marketing them in this five-volume group, and sets were made for both the Japanese and Western market. The latter name the "Macrae-Smith-Company, Philadelphia" on the case label.

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