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Reader and Collector, v. 2, issue 4, December 1941

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hence I'll have to pass up the temptation. So, that brings me to an interesting book made in Japan, "KWAIDAN" by LAFCADIO HEARN. This book is completely Japanese; the paper is Japanese linen; the binding is Japanese brocade; the illustrations are by a Japanese, Yoshimura Foujita and the book was printed by the SHIMBI SHOIN in Tokyo. "KWAIDAN" means "weird tales" and the stories in this collection are Japanese ghost stories of old Japan taken from the folk lore of the Japanese . To the 100-per cent scientific-fiction fan, "KWAIDAN" will no doubt be uninteresting; but to anyone interested in folk lore and ghost stories the little collection of tales by HEARN will prove amusing, delightful and instructive. The book contains about twenty illustrations in color. I understand that the opening illustration required fifty-one impressions. The outer case for this edition is a wrap-case. It is made of heavy Japanese silk and is wrapped around the book itself and fastened by two ivory tabs. The book is not bound the way we do it in this country. The front and back boards (covered with a golden brocade) are laid on the top and bottom of the stack of sheets and the whole sewed together with blue silk. On the colophon page will be found several symbols; the mark of the author, the signature of the illustrator  and the emblem of the publisher. Altogether, a rather unique book.

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hence I'll have to pass up the temptation. So, that brings me to an interesting book made in Japan, "KWAIDAN" by LAFCADIO HEARN. This book is completely Japanese; the paper is Japanese linen; the binding is Japanese brocade; the illustrations are by a Japanese, Yoshimura Foujita and the book was printed by the SHIMBI SHOIN in Tokyo. "KWAIDAN" means "weird tales" and the stories in this collection are Japanese ghost stories of old Japan taken from the folk lore of the Japanese . To the 100-per cent scientific-fiction fan, "KWAIDAN" will no doubt be uninteresting; but to anyone interested in folk lore and ghost stories the little collection of tales by HEARN will prove amusing, delightful and instructive. The book contains about twenty illustrations in color. I understand that the opening illustration required fifty-one impressions. The outer case for this edition is a wrap-case. It is made of heavy Japanese silk and is wrapped around the book itself and fastened by two ivory tabs. The book is not bound the way we do it in this country. The front and back boards (covered with a golden brocade) are laid on the top and bottom of the stack of sheets and the whole sewed together with blue silk. On the colophon page will be found several symbols; the mark of the author, the signature of the illustrator and the emblem of the publisher. Altogether, a rather unique book.