The boy who drew cats rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn [wrapper title]

[Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1898. First edition, first printing, state B, per BAL (no priority); large paper format as described by BAL (7½" x 5⅜), pp. [2], 18, [4]; printed on crepe paper; illustrated in color throughout and in illustrated self-wrappers; light sunning at the edges, else basically very good to fine. With 22 titles listed in the advertisement for this series on p. [20]; tailpiece (without letterpress) on p. [21]; colophon on p. [22]. BAL 7930. (Inventory #: 67507)