Verlag: Hokuseido Press
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
Unknown. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Verlag: [Privately Printed]. [1913]., [New York]., 1913
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
(viii) + 96pp, includes pages 20a and 20b, see Perkins. Addenda slip tipped-in contents leaf, original wrappers and dark navy dustjacket little worn, particularly at extremities, overall a good copy of this scarce and landmark publication. No. 99 of a limited print run of 100 copies. 24.5 x 17cm. (Perkins, 66). The first edition of Lafcadio Hearn's much beloved and reprinted series of editorial articles written between October and December 1894 for the Kobe Chronicle.
[New York 1913], Privately Printed for Merle Johnson. Half Morocco over purple cloth,orignal stiff wrappers,very bright & uncut, untrimmed edges, 96p.,16.5 x 24.5 cm.,fine example. * RARE FIRST LIMITED EDITION OF 100 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES * . *** **** *** . . A VERY RARE COPY OF THE FIRST HAND-NUMBERED . . . EDITION OF 100 COPIES IN CUSTOM MOROCCO SLIPCASE . * THE FIRST & RARE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1913, edited by and privately printed for Merle Johnson, one of the most eminent and famous early Hearn collectors. See his stunning 1914 auction catalog, our book number 930381 posted to our website. . According to BAL, although this book was "edited and published by Merle Johnson although this information is nowhere stated in the publication." There is other bibliographic evidence of this publication fact. . *** An excellence collection of forty-five hitherto unpublished essays, with a few highlights below: . THE KURUMAYA QUESTION JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL POLICY JAPANESE PHYSIQUE RACE-PROBLEM IN AMERICA DR. TAYLOR ON JAPANESE INFLUENCE IN ANCIENT AMERICA SOME JAPANESE IDEAS OF AMERICAN POLICY THE LABOR PROBLEM IN AMERICA JAPANESE IMMIGRATION TO THE WEST INDIES CHEAP LABOUR IN JAPAN SYMPATHY WITH CHINA CURSE OF MONEY THE VALUE OF SHINTO, JAPANESE WOMEN AND EDUCATION et al. . Please see photos of the table of contents posted to our website. . *** THE FIRST LIMITED HAND-NUMBERED EDITION OF 100 COPIES: . This is bound in the original publisher's stiff white card covers, with black titles on cover. The first fly leaf has a black fountain penned number at the bottom edge, reading: "100 COPIES," followed by an Arabic number [i.e. 22], below which is a Roman numeral of the same number. Followed by the next page which is a half-title, after which comes2 pages of table of contents, the begins the essays. . The work was issued uncut, the first 5 pages have been opened, all balance pages are uncut, no edges trimmed as issued. . *** THE CUSTOM HALF MOROCCO PURPLE LEATHER SLIPCASE OVER PURPLE CLOTH: This RARE example is protected in a 5 part folding internal purple cloth slip cover, which is very clean with gray endpapers. This slides inside the Morocco leather backed slip case. A near fine copy. . The Morocco slip case has six gilt tooled & lettered spine, with 6 gold outline compartments & 5 raised bands. . The balance of this slipcase is bound in matching purple cloth per the above inside slip case. The back side has a tiny bit of sun fading, else an excellent example, barely any rubbing to the leather, by and large a stunning example, bright & clean. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** THE 1960 LATER HOKUSEIDO REPRINT EDITION: . This is the first Hokuseido reprint, in small format, nevertheless complete as the First Edition. Bound in the original publisher's red cloth, dust jacket, exceptionally clean & firm. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . P.D. & Ione Perkins: LAFCADIO HEARN A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WITTINGS: pp.66-67, without the addenda slip on p.7. The FIRST LIMITED & HAND-NUMBERED EDITION OF 100 COPIES. * BAL 7954 *.