Author: HOPE, LAURENCE (PSEUDONYM OF ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON )
Title: Stars of the Desert
Description: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The foredges of the text block are uncut. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, foxing, ground-in dirt, several edge tears, nicks and a couple of snags to the rear spine joint. "In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India's Love Lyrics. She attempted to pass these off as translations of various poets, but this claim soon fell under suspicion. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Edwardian era. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss and often, the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs. Many of them have an air of autobiography or confession. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Poetry Laurence Hope Adela Florence Nicholson Violet Nicholson Romance Sufi Islam India Confessional Style Writing
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Title: Stars of the Desert
Description: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The foredges of the text block are uncut. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, foxing, ground-in dirt, several edge tears, nicks and a couple of snags to the rear spine joint. "In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India's Love Lyrics. She attempted to pass these off as translations of various poets, but this claim soon fell under suspicion. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Edwardian era. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss and often, the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs. Many of them have an air of autobiography or confession. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Poetry Laurence Hope Adela Florence Nicholson Violet Nicholson Romance Sufi Islam India Confessional Style Writing
Price: US$ 85.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43856
- Book number: 43856
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