Author: HEARN, Lafcadio.
Title: 17 titles in 18 volumes published by Hearn in his lifetime: Exotics and Retrospectives; Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; Shadowings; Kotto; A Japanese Miscellany; Kokoro; Gleanings in Buddha Fields; Kwaidan; In Ghostly Japan; Youma; Two Years in the French West Indies; Some Chinese Ghosts; Out of the East; Japan, an Interpretation; Gombo Zhebes; Stray Leaves; Chita.
Description: Tokyo 1981-82 - see note. Varied octavos, publishers decorated cloth. Pretty much as new. A reprint of the Perkins' bibliography of these titles accompanies the set. ¶ When I bought this group of gleaming first editions on the strength of some photos I feared that the photographer had been too kind and the flaws would only be seen after I opened the box. But no. The books are better than the photos. That's because this is a set of facsimiles published by Yushodo in an edition of 300 copies in 1981 and 82. Never heard of it until now. It is a publishing triumph, I guess. And no doubt it was ferociously expensive. Still, here it is at a lot less than it cost me.

Keywords: literature fiction social history folklore language c19th c20th Japan occult fantasy