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by HEARN, Lafcadio.:

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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1923.. Contents: Exotics:- I.Fu Ji-No Yama; II.Insect-Musicians; III.A Question in the Zen Texts; IV.The Literature of the Dead; V.Frogs; VI.Of Moon-Desire; Retrospectives:- I.First Impressions; II.Beauty is Memkory; III.Sadness in Beauty; IV.Parfum De Jeunesse; V.Azure Psychology; VI.A Seranade; VII.A Red Sunset; VIII.Friisson; IX.Vespertina Cognitio; X.The Eternal Haunter. Pp.299, 4 full page illustrations + 13 illustrations in the text, gift message "To dear May Mukle in remembrance of many happy hours spent in her company, Deviotedly L" to front paste-down + quotation from Swinburne "The intolerable infinite desire" [The Masque of Queen Bersabe - Sappho] to front free endpaper. Blue cloth, title to spine dulled, wear to top and tail of spine. G+.** Lajos Fenster (1898-1937) was a child progidy of the violin.** "May Henrietta Mukle FRAM (1880 �1963) was a British cellist and composer. She has been described as a "noted feminist cellist", who encouraged other women cellists...Mukle was described in The Times as "in the very front rank of living violoncellists"and her obituary in The Times says of her: "by the turn of the century she was fully recognized not only as an outstanding musician but as one of the most remarkable cellists this country had produced." (wiki).

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Title
Exotics and Retrospectives.
Author
HEARN, Lafcadio.:
Book Condition
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Hardcover
Publisher
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1923.
Keywords
lafcadio hearn lajos fenster exotics japan essays buddhist doctrine fu ji no yama insect musicians zen literature frogs beauty sadness memory psychology vespertina cognitio may mukle 48412
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