The Cherry-Blooms of Yeddo and Other Poems
Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, (c. 1881). Hardcover. frontis and a few other illustrations, 140p. Hardcover in original decorated gray cloth. 19c,. Cover moderately worn. Usual age-toning. Fabric traditionally dressed Japanese woman mounted on endpaper. Two modest-sized (13.5 x 9cm.) late 19th century commercial Japanese photos laid in. Five or six of the poems are set in Japan where Clara served as a missionary with her first husband. Sometime after his death she married Marcus Clark Mason, a missionary in Assam, but died in Tura a few months after their marriage, Good. Item #85599
Price: $75.00
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