HEARN, Lafcadio — KWAIDAN
Tokyo. Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club by The Shimbi Shoin. First Edition. Small octavo (6" x 8-1/4") bound in boards covered with a rich golden Japanese brocade sewn with heavy blue silk and housed in a wrap-case made of heavy Japanese silk fastened with two ivory tabs. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Illustrated by Yasumasa Fujita with 18 full-page illustrations printed by collotype from blocks of wood in varying colors and two illustrations in full color reproduced by the impressions of about fifty wood blocks, giving them the charm and decorative value of fine Japanese prints. Copy #505 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator, in Japanese, on the colophon page.. Yasumasa Fujita. Faint dampstain to the bottom corner of the pages for approximately the last third of the book, not affecting the text, plates, or the covers which are all clean. Near Fine in a Near Fine silk wrap-case with one ivory clasp detached but present and a short split along one back edge
