SOME CHINESE GHOSTS.
by HEARN, Lafcadio
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- Hardcover
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"This Dover edition, first published in 2008, is an unabridged republication of the work published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, in 1906. The first edition of this book was published in 1887"--T.p. verso.
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- Rare Oriental Book Company, ABAA, ILAB - AN ART AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84283505
- Title
- SOME CHINESE GHOSTS.
- Author
- HEARN, Lafcadio
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Lafcadio Hearn: By/about, His Writings, Translations & Manuscripts; Chinese Folk Art; China: Social Science, Eclectic, All Subjects & Disciplines [no Art]; Foreigners In Japan: All Periods; Foreigners In Japan: All Periods;
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