From Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 21 June 2001
About this Item
Black w/gilt lettering and orange and silver vignette. Mild sun line head and heel, text clean, tight and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ quite battered, several closed tears, chips, scuffing and soiling. "This is the full-length biography of one of the most tragic, romantic, and little-known figures in American letters. A noted interpreter of Japan to the West. His life was full of mischance, incident, and sensational ups and downs. Born in 1850 of a Greek mother and and Anglo-Irish father, he spent an unhappy childhood in Ireland before emigrating to Cincinnati, Ohio. There he gained his first chance writing brilliant essays on the raw, riotous Cincinnati of the post-Civil War years. Then came more journalism in New Orleans, summers at Grand Isle-where he wrote his novel 'Chita'- a stay of two years in Martinique, and finally a trip to Japan for Harper's Magazine which resulted in his remaining there for the ten years until his death." (from the jacket). Seller Inventory # 10230D
Bibliographic Details
Title: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Publication Date: 1961
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: First Printing
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