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HEARN, Lafcadio.

Some Chinese Ghosts.

Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1887.

Regular price  $379.00
Sale price  $379.00 Regular price 

Some Chinese Ghosts.

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The first edition of this collection of Chinese folktales translated into English by the writer and academic Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904).

'One of the scarcer of Hearn's book, since a large part of the first edition was destroyed by his publishers' (Perkins).

First edition, first printing; 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm); publisher's tan cloth, Chinese mask to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge stained red, a little rubbed and stained, hinge split at title but holding, the odd internal stain; [4], 195, [1]pp.

Perkins pp12-13.

Stock code 115197

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The first edition, first printing of Lafcadio Hearn's scarce collection of Chinese folktales, Some Chinese Ghosts.

Some Chinese Ghosts.

Regular price  $379.00
Sale price  $379.00 Regular price 

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