[Rarebooks] FS: LEC Lafcadio Hearn: KWAIDAN bound in rich golden Japanese brocade sewn with silk

[Charles Agvent]

One of many Limited Editions Club titles in our inventory viewable at 
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web site this week approximately 100 new LEC arrivals, of which this is one.

HEARN,  Lafcadio.  KWAIDAN. Tokyo: Limited Editions Club  1932.  First
Edition.  Small  octavo (6" x 8-1/4") bound in boards  covered  with a
rich  golden Japanese brocade sewn with heavy blue silk and housed  in
a  wrap-case made of heavy Japanese silk fastened with two ivory tabs.
Introduction  by  Oscar  Lewis. Illustrated by  Yasumasa  Fujita  with
eighteen  full-page illustrations printed by collotype from blocks  of
wood  in varying colors and two illustrations in full color reproduced
by  the impressions of about fifty wood blocks, giving them the  charm
and  decorative  value  of fine Japanese prints. Copy  #1208  of  1500
SIGNED  by the illustrator, in Japanese, on the colophon page. Monthly
Letter  laid in. Uncommonly nice condition for this fragile book  with
just  minor  splitting to the spine edges of the case, much less  than
usual.  Rarely  seen with the glassine still intact. Fine in  glassine
and Near Fine silk wrap-case.                                  $500.00

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