The writings of Lafcadio Hearn (large paper edition)

In sixteen volumes. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. Sixteen volumes, octavo, half crushed morocco over buckram, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, each volumes approximately 300 pp., colour frontispieces with tissue guards, photogravure illustrations, a fine set. Limited to 750 numbered copies.

‘Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a British national of Greek and Irish descent. After travelling over halfway around the globe, he arrived in Japan. In 1896, he married Koizumi Setsu, the daughter of a Matsue samurai, and became a Japanese citizen. During his fifty-four years of life, he produced thirty works, including Kwaidan, which he wrote in his later years.’ – Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum.

Lafcadio Hearn is regarded as the first Westerner to truly attempt to become Japanese. In 1895, he became a Japanese citizen, taking the name Koizumi Yakumo (Eight Clouds), by which he is widely known in Japan today. The Koizumi Edition contains all Hearn’s known writings, including his early works in Louisiana and the French West Indies, and Hearn’s works of non-fiction and fiction, including his Japanese ghost stories. The last four volumes containing his letters, edited by Elizabeth Bisland.

Vol. 1. Leaves from the diary of an impressionist. Creole sketches. Some Chinese ghosts ; Vol. 2. Stray leaves from strange literature. Fantastics and other fancies ; Vol. 3-4. Two years in the French West Indies. 1. A Midsummer trip to the tropics. Martinique sketches. 2. Chita. Youma ; Vol. 5-6. Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan. Vol. 1-2 ; Vol. 7. Out of the East. Kokoro ; Vol. 8. Gleanings in Buddha-fields. The Romance of the Milky way ; Vol. 9. Exotics. Retrospectives. In ghostly Japan ; Vol. 10. Shadowings. A Japanese miscellany ; Vol. 11. Kotto. Kwaidan ; Vol. 12. Japan, an attempt at interpretation ; Vol. 13-16. Life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn, including The Japanese letters, edited by Elizabeth Bisland.