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HEARN, LAFCADIO, Letters from The Raven. Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin. With an Introduction and Critical Comment by the Editor Milton Bronner.
New York: Brentano's, 1907. First edition. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. 8vo. Illustrated. 201 pp. Original black cloth-backed gray-brown paper boards, t.e.g. Fine. BAL 7495; Perkins pp.57-58. ¶ "In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the South, gives his views on the [black] question, and his impressions of Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and serious, and these are translations from [black] and Creole love songs." (Perkins quoting an early notice of the book)
Offered for US$ 125.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 216636