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Lovely copy of Hearn's Kwaidan, housed in a green silk box, richly bound in green brocade, featuring illustrations by the artist, two printed from woodblock
Lovely copy of Hearn's Kwaidan, housed in a green silk box, richly bound in green brocade, featuring illustrations by the artist, two printed from woodblock
Lovely copy of Hearn's Kwaidan, housed in a green silk box, richly bound in green brocade, featuring illustrations by the artist, two printed from woodblock
Lovely copy of Hearn's Kwaidan, housed in a green silk box, richly bound in green brocade, featuring illustrations by the artist, two printed from woodblock
Lovely copy of Hearn's Kwaidan, housed in a green silk box, richly bound in green brocade, featuring illustrations by the artist, two printed from woodblock
Lovely copy of Hearn's Kwaidan, housed in a green silk box, richly bound in green brocade, featuring illustrations by the artist, two printed from woodblock

Limited edition bound in Japanese brocade


HEARN, Lafcadio

Kwaidan Stories and Studies of Strange Things. With an introduction by Oscar Lewis.

Tokyo, Shimbi Shoin. ltd, 1932.

£500.00
£500.00

Kwaidan Stories and Studies of Strange Things.

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A fascinating exemplar of the Greek-Irish author's most celebrated collection of ghost stories.

Limited edition, signed by the artist, number 164 of 1,500 copies on watermarked ragged paper; illustrated endpapers, illustrations by Yasumasa Fujita including two frontispieces in colour printed from woodblock, tissue-guard dividing title-page, minor blemishes to small number of pages pp42-43 & pp57-59; publisher's green silk lined case with two ivory-clasps, titles to front board and to spine, patterned brocade upper board with black lettering, expertly sown, gilt top-edge, others untrimmed, minor split along hinges to spine of outer case, near fine condition; [xvi], [4], 238pp, [2].

Stock code 121773

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Lovely copy of Hearn's Kwaidan, housed in a green silk box, richly bound in green brocade, featuring illustrations by the artist, two printed from woodblock

Kwaidan Stories and Studies of Strange Things.

£500.00
£500.00

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