The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. First edition, the issue of 250 copies bound uncut, and with a page of Hearn's autograph tipped in; 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [12], 475, [1]; [6], 554, [2]; 15 plates; original black cloth, printed paper labels on spines; generally a fine copy, but with the top corners (thumbnail size) torn off of the first two leaves of text in the second volume (no loss of any letterpress). The manuscript page begins with an inscription in Japanese: "Yuki-Onna - / Yoso kushi mo / Atsu kori; / Sasu - kogai ya / Kori manuran." This is followed by ten lines regarding the "Snow-Woman and her best comb" and the "kogai" - "the name now given to a quadrangular bar of tortoise-shell passed under the coiffure..." BAL 7944. Item #30119
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