![1239384 THE DREAM OF A SUMMER DAY [MERRY CHRISTMAS BOOKLETS]. Lafcadio Hearn](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1922. First separate edition. Small octavo, 27pp. Stapled wraps in VG- condition. Spine is thin and textless; book in clear bag. Light chipping and creasing to wraps; moderate soiling and foxing, particularly to rear wrap. Minor foxing to front flyleaf. Text otherwise clean. Binding is sturdy. YF Consignment. SHELVE ROCKVILLE NON-RETAIL. More
New Orleans, Louisiana: F.F. Hansell & Bro., LTD., 1885. Second Edition. Octavo, 268 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is red with gilt titling. Boards have mild bending wear to tail fore corners, moderate discoloration along spine, shelving wear and fraying along extremities, and chipping along spine head and tail. Text block has mild age toning and scuffing along edges, head edge dyed. DL Consignment. More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. First Edition, Later Printing. Octavo, [10], 268, [6] pages, plus 5 plates. In Very Good minus condition, lacking dust jacket. In full blue cloth binding with light blue flower designs and gilt titling to spine and covers; text block with gilt top edges. Boards show mild shelf wear, with some rubbing along edges, at corners, and at head/tail of spine. Light bumping to fore corners. Text block shows moderate toning along edges, with mild soiling to top edge. Very small marginal chips/closed tears along deckled edges. Light age toning throughout. Splitting to rear hinge. Penciling on front flyleaf. More
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and company, 1884. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 225 pages. In Good condition. Light tan spine with black designs and faded lettering. Boards are bound in publisher's green cloth faded into light grey color, has stains throughout, chipping along the tail edges and the front head edge, fraying along the fore edges, significant bending wear along the spine head and tail edges, mild bending wear along the fore corners, mild rubbing wear on the front cover and spine, and mild wear along the edges. Textblock has a stain on page 63, splitting along the gutter between pages 64 and 65, has stains on the pastedowns and end-pages, rubbing wear on the front pastedown and end-page, a tear along the tail of the half-title page, significant age toning along the edges, stains along the edges, and mild wear along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved in Room C. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition. Octavo, 431pp. Hardcover in VG- condition. Spine is pale green with gilt text. Bumping and shelf-wear. Boards encased in a protective mylar sheet. Mild rubbing and abrasions to illustrated cloth-bound boards. Previous owner's book-plate to front paste-down end page. Minor soiling and age-toning to end papers; text otherwise bright and clean. Binding shakes gently but is sturdy. YF Consignment. SHELVED ROCKVILLE NON-RETAIL. More
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1890. First Edition, First Printing, Red State Binding. Octavo, 193 pages. In Good condition. Red spine with gold gilded lettering. Boards have stains on the front and rear, bending wear along the fore corners, a tear along the front head edge, bending along the spine head and tail edges, and wear along the edges. Textblock is lightly cocked, separating from the spine, splitting along the gutter between the copyright page and dedication page, page 32-33, pages 64-67, and the rear end-pages, a stain on the front pastedown and pages 82-83, mild age toning throughout, and moderate age toning along the edges. Shelved in Room C. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First Edition. Octavo, 356 pages. In Very Good condition. With a tan dust jacket in a mylar covering, lightly worn and chipped along the edges. Bound in publisher's quarter tan cloth and black paper boards bearing a tan label with black lettering to spine. Rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Textblock uncut at top edge, bearing the statement: "Two hundred and fifty copies of this first edition have been bound with uncut edges" on verso of half title page. Shelved in Essay & Memoir. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1905. First Edition. Octavo, xiii, 209 pages. In Good plus condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with yellow accents and black lettering on the spine and front board. Boards have significant fraying along the spine and fore corners, head edge of spine is torn away, a small dent along the rear fore edge, chipping and rubbing wear along the fore edges, a stain over the title on the front board, and age toning along the edges. Textblock has the bookplate of prominent civil rights leader Arthur B. Spingarn on the front pastedown, splitting along the gutter from page 88-153, a tear on page 114, pencil mark on the rear end page, and age toning along the edges. Shelved in Room C. More
Boston: houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Octavo, 388 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is tan with gold print. Boards in green cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning, mild shelf wear. Text block has cracked front hinge, shaken binding, intermittent spine cracks. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column BB. More
Tokyo: Hokuseido, [1928?]. Octavo, 305 pages. In Good condition. Ex-library with library stamp on half-title page. Spine is green with black print. Boards in green cloth, pastedown title label on front panel; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has bookplate on front pastedown, small remainder of removed label on rear pastedown. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column BB. More
New York: Macmillan, 1904. first edition. Small octavo. Dark beige cloth hardcovers with dust jacket ; VG condition in VG- dustjacket; DJ dark beige with green letters; vinyl cover; minimal shelf wear around spine edges; small open tear on back DJ; top edge gilted; strong binding; external edges a bit dusty; a couple of pages with a very tiny dog ear; color frontispiece engraving; text clean, in fairly small print; pp. 541; contains chapters on Shinto, Buddhism and "the Jesuit Peril"; most popular of Hearn's books on Japan; See all five photos for details. YF consignment. Shelved in Netdesk office, on shelf to the right of ephemera items. More
Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1925. Octavo; VG-/G+; torn and age-toned tan spine with black text, white brodart sheet visible; dustjacket has light edgewear to covers, moderate edgewear to spine with tearing and chipping, spine is split down middle and held together by protective mylar covering on dustjacket, title still legible but not completely intact, otherwise dustjacket has light age-toning, lightly torn corners; boards have light scratching and age-toning, light staining; textblock has light age-toning, occasional light foxing; 430pp. SHELVED ROCKVILLE NON-RETAIL AREA. More
