LAFCADIO HEARN. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x-xii] [1] 2-464 [465] [466-468: blank], title page printed in brown and black, original tan cloth stamped in orange. First edition. An "objective recital" of Hearn's life largely drawn "from Hearn's own words -- his letters, journalistic and periodical writings, and his books." - author's foreword. "... a well balanced biography" - Spiller, et al., eds., Literary History of the United States, third edition, revised (1963) II, p. 558. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges and faded spine panel. (#164108).
Price: $25.00
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