The romance of the Milky Way : and other studies & stories / by Lafcadio Hearn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Contributor:

Milton Mausner Collection of Lafcadio Hearn (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Mausner, Milton A., Estate of (donor) (Mausner Collection copy)

Mausner, Milton A., 1918-2012 (former owner) (Mausner Collection copy)

Blauvelt, Hiram (autograph) (Mausner Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1905]

Contents:

The romance of the Milky Way

Goblin poetry

Ultimate questions

The mirror maiden

The story of Itō Norisuké

Stranger than fiction

A letter from Japan.

Notes:

Title page without imprint date; copyright date on t.p. verso.

Biographical notice: P. vii-[xiv].

Designed by Bruce Rogers. Cf. Perkins & Perkins.

"Later editions were issued in dark olive-green buckram, and the ornamentation of the spine does not extend on to front and bck covers."--Perkins & Perkins.

Local Notes:

Mausner Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by the estate of Milton A. Mausner.

Mausner Collection copy has autograph ("Hiram Blauvelt Bluefield Oradell NJ Nov 20, 26.") of Hiram Bellis Demarest Blauvelt (1897-1957) of Oradell, N.J., on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Perkins & Perkins. Lafcadio Hearn, p. 54

Haas, I. Bruce Rogers, 60

Work of Bruce Rogers, 124

OCLC:

41879772