THE KWAIDAN COLLECTION. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things; Shadowings.

First Beehive Books edition, first printing. Signed by the artist. Original pictorial boards. All edges foiled. Housed in an embossed grey cloth slipcase decorated in green foil, featuring a die-cut circle that reveals parts of the illustration on the book's upper board. With full-page colour illustrations and decorations throughout by Kent Williams. With a foil-blocked print by Kent Williams which is loosely laid-in. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine slipcase. Also including a metal pin badge which is housed along with the book in the original cardboard box.

Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies, this example is signed Kent Williams in black ink to a bookplate on the front pastedown. 2,250 unsigned copies were also issued. A lavishly produced illustrated collection of Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese ghost stories. From Beehive Books' 'Illuminated Editions' series.