THE OLD WOMAN WHO LOST HER DUMPLING. JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES NO. 24 by translated by Lafcadio Hearn - c. 1902

New York: Heritage Press, 1964. Cloth, xii, 472 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Sandglass laid in. Slipcase with a slightly sunned spine. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. With illustrations from water-colors by Gunter Bohmer.. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Bohmer, Gunter. 4to.

1925 Edition: Modern Library / Boni Liveright. Very Good+. 1925. Hardcover. Green leatherette covers, clean and bright, gilt text bright. Book is firm in binding, 281 pages + 5 pages with Modern Library's Complete List of Titles. Woodcut illustrated endpapers by Horace Brodzky. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Else -- Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 281 pages .

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First Edition . Navy Blue Cloth. Very Good +. 7 1/2" Tall. Navy blue cloth stamped with silver lettering and figures. 88 pp. Decorative private bookplate on front endpaper.

London, England & Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908. Copyright 1908 . Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 150 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dust jacket. Slightly slanted spine. Light foxing on page edges.

John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1931.. Very Good. 1931. Hardcover. hardback, large 8vo, xii,310pp, 12 plates, slight foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, gilt-decorated black cloth, slightly rubbed ay corners and spine ends, Very Good / no dustwrapper .

NY: Harper and Brothers, 1932. First edition. Hardback. No jacket issued. SELLER'S DESCRIPTION - first printing, quarto-size 228 pages (viii, 220) plus tri-coloured plates; smaller illustrations with orange spot colour throughout; publisher's green cloth with gilt-blocked titles and decoration on the front cover, likewise title

London / New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd. / Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. 1st illustrated edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Zhenya Gay. 1st illustrated edition, 1931. A Very Good+ book in a Good slipcase. 8vo., 310 pp., 12 illustrated plates present with tissue guards. Bound in publishers decorated black cloth with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Black illustrated paper covered slipcase present. Slipcase has overall soiling and rubbed thru at corners. A beautiful copy of this text.

London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, Limited, 1927. First edition. Octavo, black cloth, pp. 265. Stories include Clarimonde, The Mummy's Foot, Arria Marcella, One of Cleopatra's Nights, & King of Candaules. Book would be fine except that a large patch of the cloth's glazing that has perished from the rear board, likely from exposure to damp. This affects the finish rather than the actual colour of the cloth. A very attractive copy otherwise..

Privately printed, 1929. 1st, limited. Unknown Binding. Good. First of this privately printed edition. Tall slim quarto. Red, leather textured cloth. Colophon, "Printed and bound for Targ and Dordick". Light wear to outer hinge. Foxing to edges of free front endpaper, frontispiece and title page. Text is very good. A luscious and slightly naughty remembrance of the woman who made Madonna look like her namesake.

Kadokawashoten, 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1