The NEW RADIANCE and other SCIENTIFIC SKETCHES by Hearn, Lafcadio (Text); Ichiro Nishizaki (Editor) - 1939

Tokyo: Inouye English Correspondence School, 1950 Book. Very Good -. Soft cover. Octavo. 8vo. 95 (3) pp. Text in English and Japanese. Introduction, Translation & Notes by Ichiro Nishizaki. Inouye English Correspondence School, 1950. Inscribed by Ichiro Nishizaki on ffep. Closed tear across spine wrapper with partially age-toned wrappers, margins of pages, and text block edges. No markings, tight binding, pages clean, white and bright. 5" x 7.25". Printed wrappers in protective sleeve. 5 b7w illustrations, introduction, The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi; Mujina; Yuki-Onna; notes. "Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories. Hearn declares in his introduction to the first edition of the book, which he wrote on January 20, 1904, shortly before his death, that most of these stories were translated from old Japanese texts. He also states that one of the stories - Yuki-onna - was told to him by a farmer in Musashi Province,… Read More

Generic, 1/1/1939 12:00:00 AM. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library hardcover. No dust jacket. Library stickers, labels and stamps on cover and inside. Cover is in good condition. Spine is tight. Pages are clean, free of markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

Kanda, Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1934. 974+48 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Top corners bumped. DJ has wear to edges w/ mild chipping to corners. Spine sunned. Lightly soiled. Comes in original box. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tokyo, Japan: The Hokuseido Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarcely available to the trade in this First Edition state. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound in an olive-green linen cloth, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Stamped silver lettering to spine and with gorgeous little bamboo flourishes there, too. Top-stained handsomely in blue. Six faint marks of tape residue along spine edges and covers. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed at front free endsheet, another at title page, and tariff sheet affixed at rear endpaper. Extensive (and helpful!) pencil marginalia on the contents pages, noting the dates of original publication). Age-toning to text. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear and multiple tape repairs backing the closed tears and some chipping to edges, with toning to spine and creasing thereof at bottom.… Read More

Kanda, Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1932. 533+15 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. DJ spine faintly sunned. Lightly soiled. Comes in original box. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1939. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Inscribed By Editor / Translator. Reprint ?. All 5 vol. are very good or better, with only minor bumping to extremities. ( one vol. has some mottling to the back cover ). Green cloth, gilt stamped spines, embossed back cover. This complete set comprises ... Barbarous Barbers & Other Stories / Oriental Articles / Buying Christmas toys & Other Essays / The New Radiance & Other Scientific Sketches / and Literary Essays. All 5 books are inscribed by Nishizaki on the front endpapers. Scarce thus. These may incur extra postage charge..