LAFCADIO HEARN: MANUSCRIPTS. New York: AMS Press, [1975]. Large octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-8] 9-265 [266: blank] [267-270: index] [271-272: blank], facsimiles, decorated cloth, imitation leather label on front panel. First U.S. edition. Facsimile reproductions of manuscript pages written while Hearn was living in Tokyo between 1896 and 1904 held by Japan's Tenri Central Library, one of the important collections of material by and about Hearn. The manuscripts are arranged to match the order of text in the Koizumi edition of THE WRITINGS OF LAFCADIO HEARN published by Houghton Mifflin in 1922. The index keys these manuscript leaves to the corresponding text in the WRITINGS. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. The facsimile colophon insert is laid in. (#164077).
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"First AMS edition published in 1975" on copyright pages.