[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated Lafcadio Hearn KWAIDAN

[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 #776 of 1500 SIGNED by 
the illustrator, in Japanese, on the colophon page. Soiling to 
endpapers, mostly at rear; text and plates clean. Very Good in a Fair 
silk wrap-case with tape repair and wear, now in two pieces. (#021163) $300

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