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HEARN, Lafcadio - Out of the East [ Japan ] - First London Edition - 1895 CGS0302
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''Out of the East'' Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn, London, Osgood McIlvaine & Co, 1895.
DESCRIPTION: Octavo, pages [6], 341, neatly bound in contemporary half blue polished calf with blue cloth infills and marbled endpapers, spine richly gilt with raised bands and double maroon lettering pieces, top edge gilt.
FURTHER COMMENTS
First London edition of this classic collection of travel stories and essays by the pioneer travel writer on Japan Lafcadio Hearn, who raised the art of travel writing to the level of fine literature.
This copy contains the woodblock bookplate of Frederick William Thomas a prominent Far East scholar who died in 1956.
SIZE: 180 x 120mm
CONDITION: Minor rubbing but a very good copy overall.