first edition Tan decorative boards with gilt front cover and spine.
1950] · [Tokyo:
by Hearn, Lafcadio
[Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1950] First edition. One of 350 copies. Tan decorative boards with gilt front cover and spine. . Quarto. A facsimile of the original manuscript, together with an editorial note by Kazuo Koizumi. A little light foxing to extremities of binding, Japanese bookseller's label on front pastedown, light offsetting to fly-leaves. A very good plus copy in publisher's (?) acetate dust jacket. In lightly foxed slipcase with a couple of light stains. The text varies somewhat from the appearance in Kotto, 1902.
(Inventory #: 12750)