Japan; Attempt at Interpretation
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [3], 3-541, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with black and gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a lovely color frontispiece. ANB, Gary Scharnhorst, "Lafcadio Hearn (27 June 1850–26 September 1904)". BAL 7941. Lafcadio Hearn lived a productive life in several different nations: Greece, France, Ireland, the United States, and at the end of his life, Japan. He wrote twelve books on Japan, this one is his final work. It is a series of lectures he had intended to deliver at Cornell University, but was unable to do so due to a typhoid outbreak in Ithaca. Hearn became a Japanese citizen in the final decades of his life and adopted a Japanese name. His writings on Japan paint a vivid picture of life there during the turn of the century. Near Fine. Item #000012769
A small push to the top textblock, a touch of rubbing to the extremities, and a contemporary gift inscription on the free front endpaper.
Price: $300.00