About this title: A Japanese magic-lantern show is essentially dramatic. It is a play of which the dialogue is uttered by invisible personages, the actors and the scenery being only luminous shadows. Wherefore it is peculiarly well suited to goblinries and weirdnessess of all kinds; and plays in which ghosts figure are the favourite subject. -from "Of Ghosts and Goblins" In 1889, Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. In 1894, just as Japan was truly opening to the West and global interest in Japanese ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1894
Description: Good. Black cloth with silver spine and cover titles and design; 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; no dust jacket; cover is moderately worn and stained; hinge is loose; pages are slightly toned; former owner's name on endpaper; binding is tight; textblock is clean and unmarked; pages 343-699. read more
Edition: Copyright ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig
Date Published: 1910
Description: Good. No dust jacket. minor spine seperation front and back inside some wear. 320 p.; 17 cm. Collection of British authors. Tauchnitz edition; v. 4164.. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Standard Publications, Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781605970936ISBN:160597093X
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Edition: Copyright Ed
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz Pub, Leipzig
Date Published: 1907
Description: VERY GOOD Condition. 4x6" Red Clothbound 319pg "Collection of British Authors" Series Vol # 3994. Gold spine & cover titles on Red Cloth Hard covers. blind embossed covers tauchnitz edition. cover title with gold lions seal...1 volume edition. in Very Nice condition. clean, solid. sound. read more
Binding: Paperbook
Publisher: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London
Date Published: 1894
ISBN-13:9781402114021ISBN:1402114028
Description: New in New jacket. This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. in London, 1894. This book is in English. This book contains 356 pages. Print on demand edition. read more
Binding: Paperbook
Publisher: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London
Date Published: 1894
ISBN-13:9781402183430ISBN:1402183437
Description: New in New jacket. This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. in London, 1894. This book is in English. This book contains 369 pages. Print on demand edition. read more
Description: Hearn, Lafcadio., pub. by Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1910, 'Collection of British Authors', Tauchnitz Edition, Volume 4164, cloth, decorated end papers, light edge wear o/w good+, 320 pp, 16mo, 'I have passed another day wandering among the temples...' read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, (reprint)
Date Published: nd
Description: Softcover, 8vo, 88pp. Original paper covers; few faint spots to top edge; all else fine. Dustwrapper lightly creased at head of spine; o/w near fine. Hokuseido Hearn Texts. English language text edited with notes by I. Nishizaki. read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00164 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00194 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bastian Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554636580ISBN:0554636581
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1894
Description: x-library w/ usual marks-covers worn. Various faults, but generally clean, well bound pages, good reading copy. Vol. 1 has black cloth, Vol. 2 has yellow cloth. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cosimo Inc
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781596056831ISBN:1596056835
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bastian Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554636559ISBN:0554636557
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bastian Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554318585ISBN:055431858X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bastian Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554318615ISBN:055431861X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: General Books LLC
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780217258401ISBN:0217258409
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