Some Chinese Ghosts (Series: Modern Library 130.)
by Hearn, Lafcadio
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library 1927. (Limp cloth) 203pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dark grey cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover device. Top edge stained pink, patterned endpapers, glossary. The deges of the spine and covers are faded, the dust jacket is edgeworn and has chips missing from the top edge of the back panel. "Nowhere is Lafcadio Hearn's love for the mystical and his intimacy with the weird and unseen so vividly and poetically realized as in this volume of Chinese tales of the supernatural. These legendary stories haunt the reader as much for their fragrant prose as for their subtle and pervasive power". Introduction by Manuel Komroff. Locale: China; Japan. Series: Modern Library 130. (Fiction, Legends, Short Stories, Supernatural).
Synopsis
"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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Details
- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154741
- Title
- Some Chinese Ghosts (Series: Modern Library 130.)
- Author
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- Fiction, Legends, Short Stories, Supernatural
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- Device
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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