Author: MYERS Leo Hamilton
Title: The Near and the Far. [First Omnibus Edition.] THE AKBAR SEQUENCE COMPLETE IN FULL MOROCCO
Description: Jonathan Cape,, [1943]. 8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full mid-brown crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE 'AKBAR' SEQUENCE COMPLETE. The 'Akbar' sequence of novels has a relatively complicated history. The first two volumes, 'The Near and the Far' and 'Prince Jali', were first published in 1929 and 1931 respectively. They were then reissued, together with the third volume 'Rajah Amar', as a collected edition titled 'The Root and the Flower' (1934) by which name the trilogy thus far is generally known. This omnibus edition adds the fourth volume 'The Pool of Vishnu' (1940) presenting the sequence as a whole for the first time. 'The conversation between the Guru and Mobarek…is of the most urgent contemporary significance as well as one of the perennial debates of mankind' (Concise Camb. Hist. Eng. Lit.). VERY SCARCE.

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