[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: HARTMANN'S "TANKA AND HAIKAI" & "MY RUBAIYAT"

[Norman Kane]

HARTMANN, SADAKICHI.  TANKA AND HAIKU: FOURTEEN JAPANESE RHYTHMS. [Constituting the entirety of the Bruno Chap Book of June, 1915.]  N. Y.: Guido Bruno, 1915.  First edition. Original printed wrappers, cover-title, nice copy.  (Hartmann is reputed to have been one of the first to write haiki in English.)  $190.00

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[HIS]: MY RUBAIYAT. [Constituting the entirety of the Bruno Chap Book of May, 1916.]  N. Y.: Guido Bruno, 1916.  First Bruno edition.  Original pictorial wrappers, cover-title, nice copy. The cover bears a wonderful full-length rendering of Sadakichi in slouch hat and overcoat.   ("The metre [of the poem] is a combination of Whitman's free rhymeless rhythm . . . and the vague alliteration of sounds in quarter tones characteristic of Japanese poetry" - Preface.) $150.00    

EACH IS LAID INTO A PROTECTIVE COVER.      TRADE DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE. 



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