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CHITA: A Memory of Last Island
by Hearn, Lafcadio
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1889. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. 4 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown and black.
First Edition of Hearn's third book, following STRAY LEAVES (1884) and SOME CHINESE GHOSTS (1887). During the summer of 1884, while living in New Orleans, Hearn had gone for a rest to Grand Ile, in the Gulf of the Mississippi. There he witnessed a tidal wave disaster that gave him the outline for CHITA; the book is essentially a series of vivid descriptions unified by its account of a lost child. This is a fine, clean copy (the slightest of rubbing at the extremities) of this handsomely-bound book. Blanck 7918. Housed in a cloth slipcase, this copy bears the small leather "Blairhame" bookplate of the noted collector Mrs. J. Insley Blair.
First Edition of Hearn's third book, following STRAY LEAVES (1884) and SOME CHINESE GHOSTS (1887). During the summer of 1884, while living in New Orleans, Hearn had gone for a rest to Grand Ile, in the Gulf of the Mississippi. There he witnessed a tidal wave disaster that gave him the outline for CHITA; the book is essentially a series of vivid descriptions unified by its account of a lost child. This is a fine, clean copy (the slightest of rubbing at the extremities) of this handsomely-bound book. Blanck 7918. Housed in a cloth slipcase, this copy bears the small leather "Blairhame" bookplate of the noted collector Mrs. J. Insley Blair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13701
- Title
- CHITA: A Memory of Last Island
- Author
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1889
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (19th Century);
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About the Seller
Sumner & Stillman
Biblio member since 2009
Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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