THE BOY WHO DREW CATS: Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.23 by Hearn, Lafcadio - 1972.

San Marino, CA:: Huntington Library and Art Gallery, , 1972.. Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers.. First thus - a facsimile edition. An appealing reissue of the 1898 edition originally published in Tokyo by Takejiro Hasegawa of this story "rendered into English" by Lafcadio Hearn and illustrated with charming drawings by Yasu Komiya, printed with wood blocks cut by hand by Kuchi Shibata. Two page introduction by James Thorpe in which he comments that "the original was meant to be a work of art and even this color facsimile has much of the merit of the original." Measures 9 3/4 by 7 1/4 inches. Unpaginated (20 pp),