Buy this book on-line Hearn, Lafcadio : Japanese MiscellanyLittle, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA, 1901
Original publisher's green cloth binding with a wrap-around color illustration of a tree on the covers. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. 5 1/8" x 7 1/2." A few pages are unopened. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Chipping at the fore-edge and bottom edge of the pages (deckle edges). One leaf in the front is very loose (almost detached). A Fine copy. Referenced from the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), no. 7936: "State B: Two states of the copyright page have been notes. Sequence not determined." Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904; also known by the Japanese name of Koizumi Yakumo) was an international writer best-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories such as Kwaidan. Hearn was a well-traveled man, originating in part from his work as a newspaper correspondent. Eventually, Hearn found himself in Japan on assignment but took great interest in the country and its culture and chose to stay there for the remainder of his life. In Japan, Hearn took a teaching position. He also married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter from a samurai family, and they had four children. Hearn is especially notable for writing about Japan and sharing the information with western culture at a time when Japanese culture was still relatively unknown. This book has three sections: "Strange Stories," "Folklore Gleanings," and "Studies Here and There." "Strange Stories" contains the following: "Of a Promise Kept," "Of a Promise Broken," "Before the Supreme Court," "The Story of Kwashin Koji," "The Story of Umetsu Chubei," and "The Story of Kogi the Priest." "Folklore Gleanings" includes "Dragon-Flies," "Buddhist Names of Plants and Animals," and "Songs of Japanese Children." "Studies Here and There" contains "On a Bridge," "The Case of O-Dai," "Beside the Sea," "Drifting," "Otokichi's Daruma," and "In a Japanese Hospital.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hearn, Lafcadio : Japanese Miscellany. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, out-of-print books, antiquarian books, livres illustrées and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |