Writings

HEARN, Lafcadio

Writings

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922.

8vo., In 16 volumes. #161/750 numbered sets of the large-paper edition, signed by Koizumi Setsuko, Hearn's second wife, in Japanese characters and with her red seal, on a tipped-in leaf of japon vellum. The special edition includes a tipped-in single leaf of manuscript from Hearn's stories (in Vol. 1).

Publisher's deluxe binding of quarter japon vellum over green silk jacquard-covered boards, (some spotting to spines, dent in top edge of front board in volumes 6-10, tidemark to bottom of spine on volumes 13-16, affecting silk on Volume 16); top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; printed decorative endpapers; each volume in linen dust-jacket, stamped in gilt; book-plate of Samuel Crawford Gillespie on verso of first free leaf in Volume 12 only.

Reference: BAL 7977

The autograph manuscript included in this set appears to be a draft from Hearn's short story, "The Reconciliation", which was originally published in 1900 in his book "Shadowings", a collection of Japanese folk tales.