The MEDICI.
London: John Murray, 1930. Reprint, first published in 1909. 2 volumes: xxix, [3], 538; xii, 576 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More
Literature
INSECTS And GREEK POETRY.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. 1st edition (BAL 7995; Ransom 29). Limited to 550 cc. Unpaginated, though 24 pp. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8". Original publishers blue paper-wrapped boards. Gilt stamped lettering to front board. More
GLEANINGS In BUDDHA-FIELDS.; Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company Limited, (1897). Later edition, cf. BAL 7929 for the 1st edition of 1897. 296 pp. Bound with the US sheets. Crown 8vo. 7" x 4-3/4". Blue cloth with gilt lettering / design [by Sarah Wyman Whitman]. TEG. More
LETTERS Of A POET To A MUSICIAN. Lafcadio Hearn to Henry E. Krehbiel.; [as published in] The CRITIC And Literary World. April 1906. Vol. 48 No 4
New Rochelle: Published for The Critic Company by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. 1st printing. Pp 309 - 318. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-7/8". Original publisher's buff paper covers printed in red & black. Krebhbiel was the dedicee for Hearn's work, "Some Chinese Ghosts" More
HEARN And His BIOGRAPHERS.; The Record of a Literary Controversy. Together with a Group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published.
San Francisco: The Westgate Press [printed by the Grabhorn Press]. 1930. 1st edition (BAL 8015; Magee 133). Limited to 350 cc. [8], 110, [2] pp. Facsimile photograph, 3 facsimile letters, 2 facsimile leaflets, captioned tissue guards for each. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Green quarter cloth over burnt orangish boards. Printed paper title label to spine. More
FATHER And I. Memories of Lafcadio Hearn.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. 1st edition (BAL Vol 4, p. 105). viii, [4], 208 pp. Frontispiece. 3 inserted plates. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Linen cloth binding with blue & red lettering/rules. Pale blue dust jacket. More
The ROMANCE Of The MILKY WAY and Other Studies & Stories.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. 1st edition (BAL 7943; Grolier Catalogue 124). xiii, [1], 209, [1] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Brownish-grey cloth binding with yellow decorations [designed by Bruce Rogers]. Top edge stained yellow. More
The FATE Of VIRGIL as Conceived by Dante.; A Dialogue of the Dead and the Living Between Walter Savage Landor and Willard Fiske.
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. 1st Edition (O'Day, p. 75). #92 / 350 cc. v, [1 (blank)], 19, [3] pp. Small folio. 12-3/4" x 9-3/4". Green cloth spine over blue-gray paper wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to spine & front cover. Per O'Day, "This imagined conversation... More
APPRECIATIONS Of POETRY.; Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1922. Later printing of the UK edition, cf. BAL 7958n. xiv, [2], 408 pp (including Index). 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. More
KNIGHT'S GAMBIT. Six Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. 2nd Printing. 218 pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. This work garnered Faulkner the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. More
The SHINING PYRAMID.
London: Martin Secker, 1925. 1st edition (Goldstone & Sweetser 31a; NCBEL IV, 646). SIGNED, #195 / 250 cc. [4], 188, [4] pp. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Printed grey paper dust jacket. More
DEATH Of A HERO. A Novel.
Paris: Henri Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. 1st edition thus, the "Authorized Unexpurgated Edition". 1 of 300 cc [unnumbered]. 2 volumes: xii, 194; 212, [2] pp. 10-1/4" x 8". Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers, glassine dust jackets; marbled paper chemise & slipcase. Gilt stamped lettering to exposed side of... More
ESSAYS In EUROPEAN And ORIENTAL LITERATURE.; Arranged and Edited by Albert Mordell.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. 1st UK edition (cf. BAL 7979n). xiii, [5], 339, [3 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. More
STRANGE ROADS - With The GODS In SPRING.
London: The Classic Press, 1923. 1st edition, 2nd issue (Goldstone & Sweetser A25b). Cf. Bleiler, p. 130. 54, [2 (blank)] pp. Illustrations by Joseph Simpson. 8vo. 6-3/8" x 4-1/2". Dark green cloth with gilt lettering. TEG. Lavender marbled eps. 'Strange Roads' first published in Out and Away, Vol I, Dec... More
The ANGEL Of MONS. The BOWMEN And Other Legends of the War.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1915. 1st book edition (Bleirer, p. 129; Danielson, p. 43; Locke I, p. 147; NCBEL IV, 646). 86, [2 (blank)] pp. 16mo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Pale blue boards printed in dark blue. Per Locke, "A celebrated short ghost story of the first... More
WAR And The CHRISTIAN FAITH.
London: Skeffington & Son, Ltd., 1918. 1st edition (Danielson, p. 48; NCBEL IV, 646). 62, [2 (blank)] pp. 16mo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Brown paper wrapped boards, stamped in black. Dust jacket. 'The errors of infidelity and the absurdities of spiritualism are exposed in a firm but courteous manner." [dj blurb]. More
SESAME And LILIES. Three Lectures.
London: George Allen, 1902. Fifty-sixth Thousand. xxxvi, [2], 228, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. More
The ETHICS Of The DUST.; Ten Lectures to Little Housewifes on the Elements of Crystalization.
London: George Allen, 1902. Twenty-third Thousand. xv, [5], 269, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. More
The EAGLE'S NEST.; Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872.
London: George Allen, 1902. Thirteenth Thousand. x, 297, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. More
The SECRET GLORY.
London: Martin Secker, [1922]. 1st edition (Danielson, p. 49; NCBEL IV, 646). [4], 308, [4 (adverts last 3 pages)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's black buckram cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Green topstain. More
THINGS NEAR & FAR.
London: Martin Secker, 1923. 1st edition (NCBEL IV, 646). 175, [1] pp. Unopened. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's lime green cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Green topstain. More
The SPECTATOR. In Eight Volumes.; New Edition, Carefully Corrected from the Originals, with Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, Contents, and a General Index. To Which are Prefixed, The Lives of the Authors.
London: Printed for J. Bumpus, Holborn-Bars, 1819. 8 volumes. Frontis in Volume I. 8vo. Period black half-calf binding with marbled paper boards, edges & eps. Spine gilt decorated, with maroon title label in second compartment, volume label in 4 compartment. "The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison... More
The LONDON ADVENTURE. An Essay in Wandering.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. 1st US Edition (NCBEL IV, 646). 170, [6] pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's yellow cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. Green & yellow patterned paper eps. More
DR. STIGGINS: His Views and Principles. A Series of Interviews.
Westminster: Imprinted for Francis Griffiths, and Published at the Sign of the Griffin, 1906. 1st edition (Danielson, p. 33). [4], 141, [11] pp. 10 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Brown quarter cloth over printed light brown paper wrapped boards. Gilt stamped spine lettering. From Machen... More