LETTERS FROM THE RAVEN: Being The Correspondence Of LafcadioHearn With Henry Wat

New York 1907, Brentano's. Half black cloth over boards,very bright,clean & solid, gold stamped cover & spine titles,210p top edge gilt, top tiny bit of usual spine head/tail wear, 13 x 19.5 cm., fine copy.*FIRST LIMITED EDITION 2500 COPIES* . *** **** *** . . COVERING HEARN'S LIFE, MOODS AND ASPIRATIONS . . . WITH HIS IMPRESSIONS OF THE "NEGRO QUESTION" . . . FIRST LIMITED EDITION OF 2500 COPIES . * Contents: . Introduction . Letters from the Raven . Letters to a Lady . Letters of Ozias Midwinter . With 5 text drawings & illustrations. . *** A fascinating work, showing Hearn's great literary prowess with insight to his values. . "In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the South, gives his views on the negro question, and his impressions of Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and serious, and these are translations from negro and Creole love songs." Per Perkins p.53, see below. . *** THE EDITIONS: The book was issued in two editions with different bindings: . a. FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 2500 COPIES, 1907, with black cloth spine over brown boards, with gold stamped title on front cover and spine with decorations, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges uncut. Donnell, Rockwell Kent-designed emblem on the title page. . When present the VERY RARE dust jacket was issued in pale green paper with black inked cover titles, descriptive text and spine titles. Some copies have been bleached out to look yellow. . b. Later edition issued in 1930 in stiff wrappers had cover designed by Hugh . *** . b. Stiff pictorial wrappers, 1930, all edges cut. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: Generic. The book is bound in the original publisher's cloth over boards, clean, firm and solid, contents likewise no issues. . Please also read "THE EDITIONS" above for other details. . Copies vary, not all are the same, please carefully read the copy condition and descriptions prior to ordering. . *** DETAILS OF SPECIFIC COPIES: . Copy 1: This is a most superb, superior and rare example of the FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 2500 COPIES, an exceptionally clean andbright example with no rubbing to the binding. There are two barely visible small water splotches on the front cloth in the lower area, of little impact. . The dust jacket is by and large excellent rare with original green color with some of the typical and usual but minor rubbing to the jacket corners, spine head & tail. Contents remains pristine. about as good as it can get! In collector's RARE condition, far and above the better average example. . We tend to be overly critical of book condition, suffice to say this gem is a truly attractive and seldom found in such superb condition, based on over 55 years experiece. * Copy 4 has some mild damp stain to the front or back cover, wear, minor loss to top/bottom of spine, bumped, mended corners, contents remains brilliantly clean, top edge gilt. . *** REFERENCE: . BAL 7495 * Perkins p.57-58 . * .