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The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn / by Elizabeth Bisland.

Accession number
PML 196295-96
Creator
Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929.
Published
Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906 (Cambridge : Riverside Press)
Credit line
Gift of Takis Efstathiou, 2016.
Notes
"Of this first edition two hundred copies have been printed and bound entirely uncut, with paper label, and containing a page of Mr. Hearn's manuscript"--Limitation statement.
The manuscript leaf in library's copy has been inscribed in ink, and contains a 5-line Japanese verse and its translation, published in Hearn's The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies and Stories (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905), page 38. Also visible on the leaf are typesetting notations and a correction in pencil.
Untrimmed printed spine labels on white laid paper are adhered to the verso of the rear fly-leaf in both volumes.
Includes index.
Description
2 volumes : portraits, illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Ownership inscription on first flyleaf of both volumes: Ida E. Bliss, March 1908.
Provenance
Ida E. Bliss; from the collection of Takis Efstathiou.
Binding
Publisher's blackish-green cloth, with printed paper spine label.
Classification
Department