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Auction archive: Lot number 119

Works, i.e.]The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
Auction archive: Lot number 119

Works, i.e.]The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
Beschreibung:

Title: [Works, i.e.]The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Author: Hearn, Lafcadio Place: Boston & New York Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Date: 1922 Description: 16 volumes. Plates from photographs, woodblock prints, etc., some mounted and in color; tissue guards. (8vo) 22x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾"), half brown morocco & cloth, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. No. 19 of 750 sets of the Large Paper Edition. With manuscript leaf by Hearn inlaid to size and bound in at front of Vol. I., as issued; inserted leaf also at front of Vol. I signed (in Japanese) by Hearn's widow Setsu Koizumi, as issued. The manuscript leaf by Hearn begins "II. When six years old I was condemned to sleep all by myself in a certain isolated room..." Each volume with the armorial bookplate of Selden, smaller circular armorial bookplates of Lynde Selden. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply. Lot Amendments Condition: Chipping and wear to spine ends, joints rubbed and tender, corners showings, spines dry; internally very good or better, largely unopened. Item number: 285187

Auction archive: Lot number 119
Auction:
Datum:
27 Jul 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: [Works, i.e.]The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Author: Hearn, Lafcadio Place: Boston & New York Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Date: 1922 Description: 16 volumes. Plates from photographs, woodblock prints, etc., some mounted and in color; tissue guards. (8vo) 22x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾"), half brown morocco & cloth, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. No. 19 of 750 sets of the Large Paper Edition. With manuscript leaf by Hearn inlaid to size and bound in at front of Vol. I., as issued; inserted leaf also at front of Vol. I signed (in Japanese) by Hearn's widow Setsu Koizumi, as issued. The manuscript leaf by Hearn begins "II. When six years old I was condemned to sleep all by myself in a certain isolated room..." Each volume with the armorial bookplate of Selden, smaller circular armorial bookplates of Lynde Selden. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply. Lot Amendments Condition: Chipping and wear to spine ends, joints rubbed and tender, corners showings, spines dry; internally very good or better, largely unopened. Item number: 285187

Auction archive: Lot number 119
Auction:
Datum:
27 Jul 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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