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Boston 1896, Houghton.Green cloth,gold stamped front & spine titles, 388p., white call # on a bit faded spine, bit usual corner rubbing, clean & solid, a still very good example, 12 x 18 cm. ** FIRST LIMITED EDITION 2000 COPIES ** . *** **** *** . . ONE OF HEARN'S MOST KEEN GROUP OF EARLY ESSAYS . . . ON THE JAPANESE PSYCHE, KARMA, TRAVEL & BUDDHISM . . . 'KOKORO' MEANS "HEART, "SOUL" OR "SPIRIT" IN JAPANESE . * Containing fifteen short stories & essays by Hearn shortly after his arrival to Japan, his second book about all things Japanese, fascinating observations. . Including study of Japanese emotional sense, Samurai spirit [Bushido], courage, resolve, sentiment, affection and inner meanings. . The guiding 'spirit' of Japan's Samurai and military for centuries. Travel guide note, genius of Japanese civilization, street singer, travel diary, Buddhist temple nun, Buddhist force of Karma, twilight of the Gods, idea of preexistence, ancestor worship and popular ballads. . *** THE BINDING: Generic: The FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 1896, was bound in green cloth, designed to look like a stitched binding Japanese book, with gold stamped front cover and spine, top edge gilt, all edges trimmed. . With an embossed image of Hearn's first son Kazuo on the title paged, which is printed in black with red "KOKORO" Kanji in Japanese. Front & back covers are designed to look like a Japanese style stitched binding, all corners with a gold square. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** EDITIONS: Typically it was the custom of the publisher Houghton Mifflin to put the 1896 date on the title page to indicate the FIRST EDITION. Title pages lacking date or other dates found on the verso of title page indicate a later edition. . Not all copies are the same, copies vary by edition, date, location of date, color of binding, condition and other details. Please carefully read each copy notes prior to ordering. . This was issued in later editions in different colors, bindings & details. Please carefully read each copy record prior to ordering . . There were also German and other language editions of this title. please see them on our website. . *** SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . Generic: Contents of all all copies are pristine, no marks or issues. All copies top edge gilt. . Copy 4: this is an excellent and fine example, internally brilliantly clean & solid, there are two tiny black in spots: on the spine and front covers, they are unobtrusive and not of major impact, else excellent example, no issues. . Copy 11: spine head/tail, corners worn, rubbed, title page repaired, else clean, solid, reading copy. !! Sold "AS IS," not returnable, by ordering you agree to these terms !! . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . BAL7928 * Perkins pp.29-30 . *.
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