Re-Echo

Stated second printing, February 1957. A collection of writings and drawings by Lafcadio Hearn and his son, Kazuo Hearn Koizumi. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was born in present-day Greece, traveled the world and ended in Japan, where he met and married Setsuko Koizumi. A journalist, Mr. Hearn was a skilled writer whose writings were very popular and promoted understanding between the Far East and the Western world. His son writes of his reminiscences of his father, who died young at age 54. With previously unpublished drawings by the father in both color and black & white; and with facsimile pages from the son's notebooks. This work edited by Nancy Jane Fellers. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with titling in yellow to cover & spine. Volume wrapped in jacket with color illustration of a bird perched on a stone shrine to front panel. --- A clean, bright, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket also in very nice condition but with some minor soiling, wrapped wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; 161 pages

Product Info

Publisher: The Caxton Printers, Ltd.

Year: 1957

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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