A JAPANESE MISCELLANY. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-4] 5-305 [306: blank] [307-308: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], flyleaf at rear, five inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, orange, dark green and gold, rear panel stamped in white, orange and dark green, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. A collection of essays, literary sketches, "folklore gleanings," and six "strange stories." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 790y. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 200. Day, The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature, p. 40. Reginald 07010. Tuck (1974), p. 213. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). BAL 7936 (state A of the copyright page). Early owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with shallow chip and tape ghost at the upper spine end. A lovely copy of a book rarely found in its jacket. (#154556).
Price: $1,500.00
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