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Lot 294
Prewar Limited Editions Club Collection of Japanese Supernatural Tales
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Tokyo: Shimbi Shoin, Ltd., 1932), numbered 841, octavo (8.25 in.), silk covered boards within deluxe folding case, gilt top edge. (Fine condition; very light foxing to pastedowns in the case); also included here is Flight of the Butterflies, a 1979 Metropolitan Museum of Art reproduction of a Japanese print book in their collection. Octavo, blue linen boards in slipcase.

Descent of the Sauter, Loree and Van Houten families of Somerset County, New Jersey and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.