Hearn, Lafcadio

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. PRESENTED TO THE LSE BY SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE

HEARN Lafcadio · 1905 · Island Books

£540.00 (€646.39 | $716.79 | ¥114,605)

Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., 1905. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, neat uniform contemporary stamp on front free endpapers; blue cloth, upper boards ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, backstrips chafed at heads and tails else a very good, bright, clean copy....

THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF LAFCADIO HEARN (Kwaidan; Some Chinese Ghosts; Chita; and other stories and essays)

Hearn, lafcadio · 1971 · Books from the Crypt

$8.00 (€7.21 | £6.03 | ¥1,279)

Good to Very Good- Citadel Press NY Second Edition (1971). Creasing; rubbing; edge and corner nmicks and wear; shallow cut to psine head.

Japanese Ghost Stories. Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Introduced by Yoko Ogawa. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

HEARN Lafcadio · 2026 · Island Books

£115.00 (€137.66 | $152.65 | ¥24,407)

Folio Society, 2026. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 5 double-page coloured illustrations; printed pictorial cloth, printed endpapers, coloured top, ribbon marker, a fine copy in publisher's printed and die-cut board slip-case.

The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn; Elizabeth Bisland [ed] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.75 | $112.83 | ¥18,040)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this collection of letters written by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his life in Japan. The first trade edition. Also published in a limited edition in the same year. Illustrated with a monochr...

Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs

Lafcadio Hearn · 1902 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.63 | $165.92 | ¥26,529)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition a beautifully illustrated collection of folk tales and insightful studies which enlighten Western audiences on Japanese culture. The first edition of Kotto: Being Japanese Curios with Sundry Cobwebs...

The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn; Elizabeth Bisland [ed] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.81 | $86.28 | ¥13,795)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this collection of letters written by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his life in Japan. The first trade edition. Also published in a limited edition in the same year. Illustrated with a monochr...

Chita: A Memory of the Last Island

Lafcadio Hearn · 1889 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.49 | $225.65 | ¥36,079)

New York, Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1889. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fiction novel about the 1856 Louisiana hurricane. The first edition, in the first state binding. First published serially in 'Harper's Monthly' magazine in 1888.Â...

Gombo Zhebes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects

Lafcadio Hearn · 1885 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.25 | $331.85 | ¥53,058)

New York, Will H. Colman, 1885 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Lafcadio Hearn's guide to Creole dialect, idioms and proverbs, published early in his career, and prior to his ventures in Japan. The first edition of this work, only the second work Hearn publish...

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Anatole France; Lafcadio Hearn (Trans.) · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.65 | $65.04 | ¥10,399)

London; New York, John Lane The Bodley Head LTD.; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. Cloth. The first illustrated edition of Anatole France's work 'The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard&apos. In the publisher's original cloth bidning, with gilt detail to the spine and front...

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Anatole France; Lafcadio Hearn (Trans.) · 1931 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.42 | $258.84 | ¥41,385)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1931. Cloth. The first UK illustrated edition, with original unclipped fine dust wrapper and slipcase and twelve full page monochrome illustrations by Zhenya Gay.  First UK illustrated edition in the publisher's original gilt-decora...

Essays in European and Oriental Literature: Arranged and Edited by Albert Mordell

Lafcadio Hearn · 1923 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.87 | $59.73 | ¥9,550)

New York , Dodd, Mead and Company , 1923. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition copy of these essays on literature by Greek-Irish writer, translator and teacher Lafcadio Hearn. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Contemporar...

Two Years in the French West Indies

Lafcadio Hearn · 1890 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.63 | $165.92 | ¥26,529)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Lafcadio Hearn"s illustrated travel guide on Martinique, capturing its colonial life, creole culture, and folklore. In the publisher's original pictorial green cloth binding. This volume is a f...

Letters from the Raven Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin

Lafcadio Hearn; Henry Watkin; Milton Bronner [ed] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.63 | $165.92 | ¥26,529)

New York, Brentano's, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of letters from the writer, Lafcadio Hearn. The first edition.Illustrated with four facsimile plates of Lafcadio's handwriting. Collated complete. In the publisher's original...

Kokoro, Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

Lafcadio Hearn · 1896 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.64 | $159.29 | ¥25,468)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Lafcadio Hearn's collection of fifteen essays about the inner spirit of Japan in the nineteenth century. The first edition of this work. A series of fifteen essays aimed to capture th...

Chita: Memory of Last Island

Lafcadio Hearn · 1889 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.52 | $212.38 | ¥33,957)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1889. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Hearn's influential novel on a young girl during the devastating Last Island Hurricane, among his best New Orleans works. The first edition of Chita: Memory of Last Island, a heartfelt novel set...

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Gustave Flaubert, [trans. and int. by Lafcadio Hearn] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.64 | $159.29 | ¥25,468)

New York, The Alice Harriman Company, 1910. Cloth. A translated edition of Fluabert's classic work on the famous biblical tale, signed by Alice Harriman, known to be the world's first female publisher. A translated American edition of The Temptation of St. Anthony, t...

Out of the East" Reveries and Studies in New Japan

Lafcadio Hearn · 1903 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.82 | $79.64 | ¥12,734)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. [1903]. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this work illustrative of Japanese life from the author's own experiences. The first UK edition of this work, preceded by the US edition of 1895. A copy dated from Jisc, only...

GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East

HEARN Lafcadio · 1927 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£14.00 (€16.76 | $18.58 | ¥2,971)

Jonathan Cape, 1927 Travellers' Library edn. 8vo. Original gitl lettered blue cloth (upper board lightly marked - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 252 (front endpapers tanned; no inscriptions).

KOKORO Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

HEARN Lafcadio · 1914 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£25.00 (€29.93 | $33.18 | ¥5,306)

Gay and Hancock, 1914 Popular edn. 8vo (7¼ x 5 ins). Original pictorial cloth (VG). Pp. [xii] + 388 (no inscriptions).

OUT OF THE EAST Reveries and Studies in New Japan

HEARN Lafcadio · 1897 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£75.00 (€89.78 | $99.55 | ¥15,917)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1897 1st edn 2nd printing. 8vo (8 x 5 ins). Original gilt lettered green buckram cloth, top edge gilt (near Fine). Pp. [x] + 341 (rear inner hinge loosened and publisher's catalogue page loose; no inscriptions).