[Rarebooks] FS: Lafcadio Hearn's KWAIDAN bound in Japanese brocade sewn with silk and illustrated with 18 color collotypes

[Charles Agvent]

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 18 
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 #3 of 1500 SIGNED by the 
illustrator, in Japanese, on the colophon page. Copies of Limited 
Editions Club books with such low numbers are rarely seen. Nice 
condition for this fragile book with just minor wear. Near Fine in and a 
Very Good silk wrap-case with some staining to the spine. (#016652)    
     $450.00

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