Author: EL-YEZDI, Abdu (Richard F. Burton)
Title: The Kasidah of Hahi Abdu El-Yazdi
Description: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1927. Hardcover. 24mo. Full green calf with spine gilt lettering and rules and intricate ornate front board rules and decoration, inner dentelles, slipcase. 135pp. All edges gilt. Marbled glossy endpapers. Very good/very good. Spine calf sunned to brown and a tad delicate; brown cloth and marbled paper-over-boards slipcase faintly edgeworn but strong. Later printing of this poem first published in 1880. "Translated and Adapted / By His Friend and Pupil / F.B. / (Sir Richard Francis Burton)" -- meaning Burton himself actually wrote this poem, taking a long-established Arabic verse form and making of it a kind of spiritual autobiography. Burton (1821-1890) was a legendary British explorer and soldier and influential writer and scholar. .
Keywords: Poetry
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Title: The Kasidah of Hahi Abdu El-Yazdi
Description: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1927. Hardcover. 24mo. Full green calf with spine gilt lettering and rules and intricate ornate front board rules and decoration, inner dentelles, slipcase. 135pp. All edges gilt. Marbled glossy endpapers. Very good/very good. Spine calf sunned to brown and a tad delicate; brown cloth and marbled paper-over-boards slipcase faintly edgeworn but strong. Later printing of this poem first published in 1880. "Translated and Adapted / By His Friend and Pupil / F.B. / (Sir Richard Francis Burton)" -- meaning Burton himself actually wrote this poem, taking a long-established Arabic verse form and making of it a kind of spiritual autobiography. Burton (1821-1890) was a legendary British explorer and soldier and influential writer and scholar. .
Keywords: Poetry
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 48088
- Book number: 48088
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