Kanda, Tokyo: Seikosha, 1932. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. First printing. 130 pp., 12mo format in blue buckram with gilt spine titles, dust jacket. Laid in: business card of Canadian author and diplomat Kenneth Kirkwood to a Canadian Trade Commissioner, both of whom lived in Tokyo in the 1930s. (Mr. Kirkwood was the author of "Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn", 1936.) Text is very fresh and unworn with some wear to extremities, cloth not faded or soiled, hinges tight. There extensive pencil notes to one of the stories, mostly in Japanese. These are very light and could be erased. The very fragile dust jacket is Good with considerable edge-wear and tears, some chipping, mostly to the spine-ends, some inside tape repair. A Nearly Fine/Good copy. The six stories and essays included in the book are: At a Railway Station, Literature and Political Opinion, Kusa Hibari, The Story of Miminashihoichi, The Japanese Smile, and On Reading. This book is not listed in the Trussel bibliography. When contacting Mr. Trussel we were informed tha they were not aware of this book. They kindly provided a translation of the publisher's label. Very rare Hearn item.

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Bookseller: Inno Dubelaar Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 788634
Title: Stories and Essays
Author: Hearn, Lafcadio. Suda Ed
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Seikosha
Place of Publication: Kanda, Tokyo
Date Published: 1932
Bookseller catalogs: Travel;

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