LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF AN IMPRESSIONIST: Early Writings. With An Introduction by HEARN, Lafcadio

Boston 1911,Houghton.Half white cloth spine over blue boards paper spine label,covers,corners & edges a bit worn,contents bright, clean & solid, 11 x 18 cm., deckle edge paper. copy. FIRST AND ONLY LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF 575 COPIES . *** **** *** . . FIRST LIMITED HAND-NUMBERED EDITION OF 575 COPIES . . * With two facsimile of Hearn manuscript writings. . This is a stunning Hearn set of short stories and essays on New Orleans and the West Indies, part of the Hearn "AMERICAN DAYS" essays. . *** Contents; . FLORIDIAN REVERIES: To The Fountain of Youth . A Tropical Intermezzo . A Name in the Plaza . Vulture Aura . CREOLE PAPERS: Quaint New Orleans and its Habitants . Creole Women in the French West Indies . ARABESQUES: Arabian Women . Rabyah's Last Ride . *** THE BINDING: The FIRST LIMITED HAND-NUMBERED EDITION OF 575 COPIES is bound in white cloth spine over blue paper covered boards, with blue paper spine label, gold stamped titles, issued uncut, all edges untrimmed. . With a Limitation colophon on the last page stating: "Five Hundred and Seventy-Five Numbered Copies Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, in September 1911, Number [hand penned number written in black ink]. The paper is deckle edge. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. , *** CONDITION: Generic: Per the above "BINDING" paragraph, copies vary, please carefully read each copies description, condition prior to ordering. . The copies: . Copy 4: Covers, corners & edges are a bit rubbed, else contents very bright, clean & solid, no issues, firmly bound. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . P.D. & Ione Perkins: LAFCADIO HEARN A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS: p.64, 65. * BAL 7953 * .