STORIES FROM EMILE ZOLA. Edited with a preface by Albert Mordell
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Seller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB
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Tokyo 1935], Hokuseido. Blue cloth, top edge black, fore and lower edges untrimmed, 96p., brilliantly bright, clean, very solid example in very good dust jacket in Mylar protector, 13 x 18.5 cm. * * FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . SUPERB TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH INTO ENGLISH . . WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ZOLA . * These excellent translations are of Zola's works, including essays and translations of Emile Zola: A Note. The Fight at the Mill. A Peasant's Death. A Rich Man's Death. Superb! Hearn had sympathy and admiration for Zola, and made quite a number of translations from journalistic work and fiction by the French writer. He also wrote book reviews of Zola's novels often and even did a biographical sketch of the man. The present volume contains the biographical sketch & the famous fascinating story "Fighting at the Mill," probably the most important translation from Zola that Hearn did. Extracted from the dust jacket. . *** Contents & Story Titles: . Preface . Emile Zola: A Note . A Peasant's Death . A Rich Man's Death . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: Generic: The book is bound in the original publisher's black cloth with red ink printed spine title & author's name. Top edge black fore & lower edges untrimmed. There is a Japanese colophon at the back. . When present there is a buff color dust jacket printed in black & red ink. . Copy 1: This example has "E.P. KIRKWOOD" discretely stamped in pale blue ink on the first fly leaf at the upper right corner, indicating the personal copy of an author and biographer of Hearn. Kirkwood wrote the book: UNFAMILIAR LAFCADIO HEARN, our book number 850953, available on our website. His book was also published by Hokuseido, in 1936, in a FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 500 ONLY COPIES. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . BAL 8033 * Not in: P.D. & Ione Perkins: LAFCADIO HEARN A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS. . *. …
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- STORIES FROM EMILE ZOLA. Edited with a preface by Albert Mordell
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- HEARN, Lafcadio. trans
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- JAPANESE HISTORY, JAPANESE IMPRINTS, JAPANESE LITERATURE
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