Lafcadio Hearn

First edition. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Hardcover.

Bibliography of over 200 writings by Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn once taught English, and eventually married Setsuko Koizumi, whose family adopted him. He changed his name to Yakumo Koizumi and became professor of literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo. During this happy time Hearn composed his best prose-minute examinations of Japan, its people, and its folkways.