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Shadowings
by HEARN, LAFCADIO
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Little, Brown and Company 1901. Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, yellow patterns to front board, 268pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & surface loss to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, heavy cracking to gutters throughout)
Synopsis
This a collection of Japanese folk tales about the supernatural, gleaned by Lafcadio Hearn during his life in Japan. At least one of these stories (the reconciliation) featured in the 1960's classic Japanese movie 'Kwaidan' (pronounced 'Kai-dan in modern Japanese).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 291930
- Title
- Shadowings
- Author
- HEARN, LAFCADIO
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company 1901
- Keywords
- Lafcadio Hearn literature Japan Japanese literary
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....