From RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since June 19, 1997
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New York 1915, Dodd. Full red cloth, very good, 2 vol. set, good paper labels, 406+379p., index, 16 x 24 cm., contents very bright & clean, no issues, binding clean & solid. * * FIRST LIMITED AMERICAN EDITION OF 1000 COPIES * * . *** **** *** . . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION . . . LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES . * Selected and edited John Erskine. . CONTENTS: Vol.I: Lectures on English Literature, Chiefly of the 19th Century. . Vol.II: Miscellaneous Lectures, Chiefly on English Literature. . An excellent study, covering Hearn's great intellect in comparative literature study. Herein he analyzes in juxtaposition various literary works, interpreting the West to Japan while teaching at the University of Tokyo as a lecturer. . In this work he covers romantic & classic literature in relation to style, notes on Crabbe, Cowper and Blake. Also he addresses Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats, Hood, Fitzgerald, Victorian age works, Shakespeare, the Bible, prose, Browne, Bjornson, Baudelaire, Herrick, Berkeley, Longfellow & Havamal. . He discusses poems on birds, insects, night, moon and stars, with foreign poems on Japanese subjects. With his famous and emotional "Farewell address. . A valuable contribution and insight to western literature for his Japanese students. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** THE BINDINGS: The book is bound in the publisher's full red cloth, with paper spine titles, FIRST EDITION AMERICAN LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies has top edge gilt, other 2 edges not trimmed, with 1915 on title page. All other editions will be later with date on verso or on title page but not 1915. Size is 16 x 26 cm. . Later editions will not have top edge gilt, but 2 untrimmed edges. . *** SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS:. . Copies vary in edition, date, condition and other details, please carefully read the copy notes for differences prior to ordering. . * Copy 2 has a tiny bit of pink on left edge of volume 1 spine label, inside of that back cover gutter also a bit of pink old damp stain, inside cutter lower edge in margin last 31p. faint pink water stain, clear water stain same place for last 91 pages of minimal effect, all in margins. Outside of back cover upper right corner area faint damp stain from top down hinge & left of spine to bottom. Volume 1 has a slight bend to the front cover lower edge. . Otherwise both volumes brilliantly clean contents, no issues. . Sounds worse than it actually is, we tend to be over critical of condition, sold "as is" NO returns or adjustment . . . * Copy 4 is a clean and solid example, NOTE the spine top has a small portion nibbled out, otherwise the labels are for the most part good, vol. 1 has a small chip out of left margin, both are a bit 'toned' as usual, else contents brilliantly clean. . * Copy 5 is a brilliantly clean & solid copy with likewise spine paper labels, rarely found this clean in any edition, as good as it can get. . * Copy 6 is a mixed date edition, volume 1 is 1915, the FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 copies; volume 2 is the later 1922 edition. Both are very clean bindings, spine paper labels a bit 'toned' as usual, rubbed, vol. 2 right edge a bit chipped, else internally, brilliantly clean, no issues. Sold 'as is' NOT returnable. . *** REFERENCES: . BAL 7957 . Perkins pp.71-73 . *. Seller Inventory # 84278501
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