The writings of Lafcadio Hearn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Contributor:

Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929.

Milton Mausner Collection of Lafcadio Hearn (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

16 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Edition:

Large-paper edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922.

Contents:

I. Leaves from the diary of an impressionist ; Creole sketches ; Some Chinese ghosts

II. Stray leaves from strange literature ; Fantastics and other fancies

III. Two years in the French West Indies

IV. Two years in the French West Indies (continued) ; Chita ; Youma

V-VI. Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

VII. Out of the East and Kokoro

VIII. Gleanings in Buddha-fields and The romance of the Milky Way

IX. Exotics and retrospectives and In ghostly Japan

X. Shadowings and A Japanese miscellany

XI. Kottō and Kwaidan

XII. Japan, an attempt at interpretation

XIII-XIV. Life and letters, v. I-II / edited by Elizabeth Bisland

XV. Life and letters, v. III, and Japanese letters / edited by Elizabeth Bisland

XVI. Japanese letters / edited with an introduction by Elizabeth Bisland.

Notes:

General title on half-title of each volume.

"The large-paper edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, U.S.A."--T.p. verso.

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

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

Mausner Collection copy: v. 1 is no. 613 of a limited ed. of 750 copies. Cf. t.p. verso.

Mausner Collection copy: v. 2-16 each is no. 505 of a limited ed. of 750 copies. Cf. t.p. verso.

Mausner Collection copy: v. 1, 7-9, 15: many leaves unopened.

Mausner Collection copy: v. 8: left board damaged at head outer corner; spine stained.

OCLC:

1211422