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.
by Lewis, Oscar
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1930 First edition, variant binding. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Pp. [10], 110, [2]. Facsimile photograph tipped in, 3 facsimile letters, 2 facsimile leaflets, printed tissue guards. Dark gray cloth spine, patterned floral cloth boards, printed paper spine label. Title page slightly soiled, but a fine copy. Includes the previously unpublished letters from Hearn to Tunison and an account of the controversy surrounding the three different biographies (official and unofficial) which were written about Hearn. The binding is a noted variant with floral sides printed in dark green, red, gray, and black on a cream background. [Grabhorn: 133]..
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- Bookseller
- Argonaut Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5687
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- Lewis, Oscar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Westgate Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Lafcadio Hearn, Literature, Joseph Tunison, Grabhorn Press, Private Press, PRESS BOOKS
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