Shadowings
Boston: Litttle, Brown & Company, 1900. First Edition. Octavo. Item #029982
i-xii, 268 pages. Hearn's brilliant description on pages 225-232 of the physical and psychological feelings during a dream of flying is unparalleled. He believed that "all man's dreams of paradise, of a golden past age, or a perfect future, were born of the thin light vanishing sensations of dreams." 5 plates are inserted as called for in Blanck. BAL7935. Title page in black and orange. Blue cloth with top edges gilt. A near fine and very rare early dust jacket.
Price: $1,100.00
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