Stock ID #180611 Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy together with a group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published. OSCAR LEWIS.
Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy together with a group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published.
Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy together with a group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published.
Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy together with a group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published.

Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy together with a group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published.

Boston and New York. The Westgate Press. 1930. First Edition. Stock ID #180611

Tipped in black and white portrait frontispiece illustration and five facsimiles with captioned tissue-guards, (viii) +112 pages, 22.5 x 14 cm, pearl grey decorative boards, figured silk spine with paper label lettered in black, ornaments printed in red, uncut edges, a near fine copy in the original publisher's chemise case with bone clasps, the ribbon for the clasps lacking, else a near fine copy. Also included is a folded 4 page publisher's announcement sheet promoting the forthcoming publication.

Perkins p. 128.

Publisher's description: "Including the unpublished correspondence of Elizabeth Bisland, H.E. Krebbiel, Joseph Tunison, Henry Watkin and Dr. George M. Gould relating to the attacks on Hearn published after his death, and comprising the record of the bitterest controversy in American literary history."
Published in May, 1930, by the Grabhorn Press, in an edition of 350 copies.

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