Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. London: Keegan Paul, 1894. First Edition. In Two Volumes. Pp (1) x, 342; (2) 355, adverts. Original navy cloth, decorated and titled in gilt. Light shelf-wear to boards, contents pages in nice bright condition.

Lafcadio Hearn grew up in Dublin. After a brief education in England and France, he immigrated to the United States at the age of19. In 1890 Hearn traveled to Japan for Harper’s Magazine. He married & became a Japanese subject.

Hearn’s articles on Japan soon began appearing in The Atlantic Monthly and were syndicated in several newspapers in the United States. These essays and others, reflecting Hearn’s initial captivation with the Japanese, were subsequently collected and published in these volumes as ‘Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan’ (1894).