Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

No date (ca. early 20th century). Group of 20 watercolor illustrations on gilt-lined cards, by Kazuo Koizumi, illustrating his father, Lafacadio Hearn's Kwaidon; each signed on verso, "Painting by O'Giglamp (Kaz), and with descriptive manuscript synopsis of each on same, in red, black, and green ink. Each card with protective Japanese tissue guard. With manuscript plate listing.

A fine set of original watercolor illustrations by the son of Lafcadio Hearn, Kazuo Koizumi, illustrating all 20 stories from his father's acclaimed work of Japanese folktales and ghost stories, Kwaidon: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. A similar set of these paintings, executed on canvas, signed “O’Giglamp", and with descriptive synopsis, is in the Hearn papers in the Clifton Waller Barrett Collection of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Lot includes a first edition of Kwaidon (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1904).