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HEARN, LAFCADIO; translator. Japanese Fairy Tales. Group of 5 titles translated by Hearn: The Boy Who Drew Cats * The Goblin Spider * The Old Lady who Lost Her Dumplings * Chin Chin Kobakama * The Fountain of Youth. Hand-colored woodblock illustrations printed on crepe paper. Small 8vo, 71/2x53/4 inches, color pictorial crepe paper wrappers with silk binding threads, very faint dampstaining to bottom edge of Boy who Drew Cats, two wrinkled pages in Goblin Spider; small cloth folding box with cover label (foxed) and bone clasps, panels faded; owner's inscription. Later, post-war printings, without series number on covers. Tokyo: Hasegawa; published by Macrae-Smith Co., Philadelphia, circa 1930
