Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Title: Essays in European and Oriental Literature: Arranged and Edited by Albert Mordell
Description: New York , Dodd, Mead and Company , 1923. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition copy of these essays on literature by Greek-Irish writer, translator and teacher Lafcadio Hearn. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Contemporary, dated ink inscription to the front free endpaper and contemporary annotations throughout.At a time when Japanese culture was still largely unfamiliar to the West, Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi) offered insight with his writings, both with his fiction such as his collection of legends and ghost stories, and his essays, such as this work. The editorials that feature were written between 1883 and 1887 and explore much of French literature, another realm Hearn had expertise in from his previous career working largely with French translations. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Slight sunning to the spine and small loss to the spine label. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. Contemporary, dated ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Contemporary annotations throughout the work by previous owner. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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