(Tokyo: T. Hasegawa); distributed, Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Company, (1931). In five volumes. 12mo. Each illustrated with color woodcuts. Publisher's crepe-paper wrappers, silk ties; in publisher's paper-covered board slip case, printed cover label, faux-bone clasps, lightly soiled, spotting to label, boards unevenly faded, boards starting. Perkins, pp. 34, 37, 45, 49, 86

Comprising: The Boy Who Drew Cats; The Goblin Spider ; The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling; Chin Chin Kobakama; The Fountain of Youth.

A handsome set of Hearn's popular and beautifully constructed volumes of Japanese Fairy Tales. First published at the turn of the 19th-century, and reprinted here, ca. 1931, by the original Japanese publisher, and distributed by Philadelphia's Macrae-Smith Company.