Kwaidan: stories and studies of strange things
by Hearn, Lafcadio
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. 8vo, pp. [4], [viii], 240; frontispiece and one plate; 3/4 purple calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled spine in six compartments with gilt title in one, t.e.g. marbled endpapers; spine sunned and rubbed, owner's bookplate on free endpaper, text clean and bright, very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63028
- Title
- Kwaidan: stories and studies of strange things
- Author
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Sunned
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Marbled boards
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- Spine
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- New
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- Bookplate
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