[Rarebooks] FS: Lafcadio Hearn KWAIDAN with 18 full-page illustrations by Yasumasa Fujita

[Charles Agvent]

HEARN, Lafcadio. KWAIDAN. Tokyo: Printed for the Members of The Limited 
Editions Club by The Shimbi Shoin, 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 
#505 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator, in Japanese, on the colophon 
page. Faint dampstain to the bottom corner of the pages for 
approximately the last third of the book, not affecting the text, 
plates, or the covers which are all clean. Near Fine in a Near Fine silk 
wrap-case with one ivory clasp detached but present and a short split 
along one back edge. (#021499)        $450

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