[Rarebooks] FS: LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAGE of Hearn's

[Charles Agvent]

HEARN, Lafcadio [BISLAND, Elizabeth: editor]. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF 
LAFCADIO HEARN with THE JAPANESE LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN. Boston & New 
York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First Edition. Two volumes in 
original green cloth with paper spine labels and extra labels tipped in 
at the rear. One of 200 large-paper copies with an ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 
PAGE of Hearn's, in this case an excerpt from THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY 
WAY. In full: "accomplishments made Busanshi suspect that she had been 
brought up in the court of some prince, or in the palace of some great 
lord. She displayed a perfect knowledge of the etiquette and the polite 
arts which are taught only to ladies of the highest rank; and she 
possessed astonishing skill in calligraphy, in painting, and in every 
kind of poetical composition. Busanshi presently fell in love with her, 
and thought only of how to please her. When scholar-friends or other 
visitors of importance came to the house, he would send." Touching 
inscription from a husband to his wife in the year of publication on the 
front endpaper; light wear to spine tips. Very Good, lacking as usual 
the dustwrappers and slipcase. (#021260)        $1,600

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