Gleanings in Buddha-Fields Studies of Hand & Soul in the Far East by Hearn, Lafcadio

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, later printing. 296pp. Red cloth stamped in gilt with topedge gilt. First and last few pages with minor foxing, endpapers slightly browned, spine faded, covers soiled, about very good. Author's third book from his Japanese period, a series of essays on religious belief, art and life in Japan.

London: Cape, 1927. The Travellers' Library series.. 0. Hardcover. Small 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 253pp. vey good, foxing to endpapers, owner's name and stamp on half-title. .

London.: Cape.. Reprint.. 1927.. 253 pages, edges little browned, a very good hardback copy. The chapters are entitled "A Living God", "Out of the Street", "Notes of a Trip to Kyoto", "Dust", "About Faces in Japanese Art", "Ningyo-no-haka", "In Osaka", "Buddhist Allusions in Japanese Folk-song", "Nirvana", "The Rebirth of Katsugoro", and "Within the Circle." .

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press Cambridge Copyright date 1987, no date on the title page, a later edition therefore. Tourqoise cloth with gold lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt, 296 pages , a very good copy which is a little rubbed, a bit faded on the spine and has a name and date (1903) written on the title page.A reasonably tight and internally clean copy..

Handling wear to the cover, bumping to the corners and spine and a few marks and stains to the boards. Inside the book has foxing to the end-papers and the former owners name on the front end-papers. The contents are clean, bright and free from markings or inscriptions.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1910.. Small 8vo, 286 pp. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of L.C.F. Oldfield. Contemporary blue full calf, t.e.g., slight fading of spine. Todd & Bowden 4204a.

London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898., 1898. 12mo. pp. 2 p.l., 296, [1]. original gilt-stamped cloth with printed label of Mudie's Select Library on front cover, t.e.g. (small label on spine, covers spotted). from the library of Canadian author, Thomas Conant [1842-1905]. cfSmith H75.. Hardcover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. First edition. 16mo. Very Good. 12mo, in variant blue-green cloth, hinges cracking. With the intriguing 1899 Paris bookplate of Hortense Lenore Mitchell, and a few discrete pencilled annotations, presumably by Ms. Mitchell: Note: Hortense's father founded the lllinois Trust And Savings Bank, and left her an heiress. She married a Brit, Arthur Acton, moved to Villa La Pietra in Florence, and gave birth to Harold Acton. With spine imprint A, without terminal period [BAL 7929].