A JAPANESE MISCELLANY: Strange Stories, Folklore Gleanings, Studies Here And The

Boston 1901, Little. Green floral cloth,gold stamped titles, top gilt, superbly clean copy,305p.,13 b.w. plates, contents bright,firm & extra clean,12.5 x 19.5 cm., excellent example with 'October.' * RARE FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE * . *** **** *** . . FIFTEEN OF HEARN'S MOST FASCINATING SHORT STORIES . . . WITH JAPANESE ILLUSTRATIONS . . .BRILLIANTLY TRANSLATED FROM JAPANESE ORIGINAL FOLK-TALES . . * THE TWO FIRST EDITIONS: . How to distinguish the FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE from other '1901' issues. . FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE 1901 on the title page, verso of the title page shows: "Copyright 1901, By Little, Brown, and Company, All Rights Reserved." . FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE will show on the verso of title page: "October 1901 All Rights Reserved," anything other is a later edition, See Perkins p.43 for exact details. . Some editions will continue to show 1901 on the verso of title page, but they are not the FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, . *** CONTENTS: . STRANGE STORIES: Of a Promise Broken Of a Promise Kept Before The Supreme Court The Story Of Kwashin Koki The Story Of Umetsu Chubei The Story Of Kogi The Priest . FOLKLORE GLEANINGS: Dragon-Flies Buddhist Names Of Plants And Animals Songs Of Japanese Children . STUDIES HERE AND THERE: On A Bridge The Case Of O-Dai Beside The Sea Drifting Otokichi's Daruma In A Japanese Hospital . * Nicely illustrated with seven Japanese b.w. drawings and paintings. . *** Color scans are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: This is bound in the original publisher's green pictorial spray of flowers in three colors with gold-stamped titles. . The top edge gilt with two edges untrimmed, fully illustrated. . Copies, dates, editions vary, please carefully read the copy notes for each individual example, condition, edition and other unique notes. . *** REFERENCE . BAL 7936 * Perkins pp.42-43 .