Book Details + Condition: Little, Brown, and Company (Boston). First Edition, 1899. Beautifully decorated hardcover with gilt and white floral-stamped blue cloth. 241 pages, and illustrated with 5 in-text figures and 4 plates. First edition of Japanese occult folklore and legends by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850 – 1904), who lived and studied in Japan, and wrote extensively on Japanese history and culture. He is best known for his books of Japanese legends and ghost stories. Contents include: Fragment; Furisode; Incense; Story of Divination; Silkworms; Passional Karma; Footprints of the Buddha; Ululation; Bits of Poetry; Japanese Buddhist Proverbs; Suggestion; Ingwa-Banashi; Story of a Tengu; and At Yaidzu. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards, with areas of darkening / soiling; darkening to spine, with smudge at bottom of cloth; owner name to ffep, and ex libris stamp to reverse; scuffing to endpapers, with rubbed-out spot to rear free endpaper; old (library?) stamped number to dedication page; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
