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Japanese Fairy Tales by Lafcadio Hearn Printed in Color by Hand from Japanese Wood Blocks
Hearn, Lafcadio (Trans) · Tokyo, Japan
- Author
- Hearn, Lafcadio (Trans)
- Date
- c1920
- Place
- Tokyo, Japan
- Publisher
- T. Hasesgawa
- Language
- English (Trans. From Japanese)
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.5" x 7.5") Five complete volumes within a dark blue Chi-tsu box with faux bone clasps and pictorial paper within. Each volume within its own protective wrap, unopened. Each volume within a sewn decorative crepe paper wrap with color woodblock illustrated crepe paper pages. Other than light soiling to outer cover and sun-fading to the spine of the box, this is almost as if a new set of five titles with their original tissue wraps.
- Format
- The five separate book titles within comprise: The Boy Who Drew Cats, The Old Women Who Lost Her Dumplings, Chin Chin Kobakama, The Goblin Spider, The Fountain of Youth
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.10118
Japanese Fairy Tales by Lafcadio Hearn Printed in Color by Hand from Japanese Wood Blocks. Lafcadio Hearn (Trans). c1920. Tokyo, Japan: T. Hasesgawa. 8vo.(5.5" x 7.5") Five complete volumes within a dark blue Chi-tsu box with faux bone clasps and pictorial paper within. Each volume within its own protective wrap, unopened. Each volume within a sewn decorative crepe paper wrap with color woodblock illustrated crepe paper pages. Other than light soiling to outer cover and sun-fading to the spine of the box, this is almost as if a new set of five titles with their original tissue wraps. The five separate book titles within comprise: The Boy Who Drew Cats, The Old Women Who Lost Her Dumplings, Chin Chin Kobakama, The Goblin Spider, The Fountain of Youth.
Condition
Near Fine
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