Search Results: American Writings by Lafcadio Hearn

Library of America, 2009 Library of America #190. Attached silk bookmark. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Blue cloth with offset black tile on spine, gilt title. Owner's name embossed on half title page.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Library of America, 2009. First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. 848pp + publisher's list. Illustrated. Ribbon marker. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall

New York: Library of America 978-1-59853-039-1 [978-1-59853-039-1] 2009. (Hardcover) 848pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Patterned endpapers, photographs, illustrations, chronology, notes, ribbon marker. A remainder mark on the bottom edge. "A singular figure in American letters, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) had a life as complex as his heritage. Born in the Ionian Islands to a Greek mother and an Irish father, he was abandoned by his parents, raised in boarding schools, and then sent penniless to the United States, where he began a career as a newspaper journalist". Includes Chita, Selected Journalism and Letters, Some Chinese Ghosts, Two Years in the French West Indies & Youma. Locale: Caribbean Islands; Japan; Martinique; United States. (Ideas, Essays, Ideas, Journalism, Reporters).