HEARN, Lafcadio.
Shadowings.
Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1900.
Hearn (1850-1904) arrived in Japan in 1890, soon obtaining a teaching position in the town of Matsue where he married Koizumi Setsuko, the daughter of a local samurai family. Shadowings was published whilst Hearn was lecturer in English at The Imperial University, Tokyo. His writings offered unprecedented insight into Japan in an era when the nation was emerging from a 220-year period of isolationist foreign policy.
First edition, first printing; 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm); 5 photographic plates, title printed in red and black, 4pp ads to rear; publisher's pictorial blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, lacking dust-jacket, top-edge gilt, others uncut, slightly toned, spine slightly faded, very good plus; [10], 268, [6]pp.
Perkins pp40-41.
Stock code 115182
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Shadowings.
MILTON, John; PHILIPS, Edward (translator).
Letters of State,
1694.
The first edition in English of Milton's Literare Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, translated by his nephew Edward Phillips, and containing three previously unpublished preliminary sonnets
£1,850.00
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables.
1897.
A handsome copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
£285.00
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [with] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
1892; 1894.
A delightfully illustrated two volume set of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
£3,900.00
