JAPAN. A collection of thirteen works illustrated with woodb...

JAPAN. A collection of thirteen works illustrated with woodblocks, comprising: HASEGAWA, T. (pub.). Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 23, The Boy Who Drew Cats, rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn, 1st edition 1st issue with the 10 Hiyoshicho address to inside front and back covers, Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, [1898], slim 8vo; with IDEM. 6 others [Nos. 1, 5, 8, 9, 14, & 20], nd, slim 12mo: Momotaro; Kachi-Kachi Mountain; Urashima; The Serpent with Eight Heads; The Princes Fire-Flash & Fire-Fade; The Enchanted Waterfall; all crepe paper with woodblock colour illustrations & pictorial wrappers; FLORENZ, Karl. Japanische Dichtungen. Weissaster. Ein Romantisches Epos..., Leipzig: C. F. Amelang's Verlag & Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, nd, title page clipped (loss of tail-edge corner), 8vo; with IDEM. Dichtergrüsse aus dem Osten. Japanische Dichtungen., ibid, nd, 8vo; both crepe paper with woodblock colour illustrations, pictorial wrappers, and pictorial card folders (scuffed); BRAMHALL, Mae St. John. Japanese Jingles, 2nd edition, Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1893, crepe paper with woodblock colour illustrations & pictorial wrappers, 8vo; YAMAKAWA, Shuho (illust.). 1 vol. of Ukiyo-e Kai [The World of Ukiyo-e], Tokyo: Ukiyo-e Dokokai, 1940, woodblock cover illustration by Shuho Yamakawa, orig. wraps, slim 8vo; INOUYE, Jukichi. Home Life in Tokyo, 1st edition, Tokyo: Printed by the Tokyo Printing Company, Ltd., 1910, colour woodblock frontis, monochrome illustrations, library stamps to frontis. title, and elsewhere, pictorial wrappers (splits/chips to upper wrapper and backstrip), 8vo; BUSH, Lewis. Japanalia, 2nd edition, Tokyo: Okuyama, 1956, tipped-in colour woodblock frontis. by Nisaburo Ito, monochrome plates & illustrations, orig. red cloth, toned, 8vo. (13)

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