Search Results: the kasidah of haji abdu el yezdi by richard burton translator

Kessinger Publishing, 2000. Soft cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Circa 2000. 134pp. Illustrated. Facsimile reprint of the rare Knopf edition of 1924. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" Tall

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Undated. Part of the "Half-Hour Classics" series. In very good, clean, unmarked condition with light wear. A long poem which presents Sufi thought in a manner to appeal to the West. Size: 5 1/ 2 x 8

Drexel Hill, PA: Bell Publishing Company, 1931. Very good in full maroon cloth with gilt titles. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Firmly bound. No name, bookplate or other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Willy Pogany.

Philadelphia: Brentano's, 1929. First Edition Thus . Black Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 10" Tall. Xiii, 169 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. A New Edition With New Illustrations. A Bright, Clean Copy, Contents Immaculate, Touch Of Wear To Covers, Slight Aging Of Spine Gilt Which Is Still Clear And Bright.

Philadelphia: David McKay Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. NAP. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt titles. Dark spot between pages 14 and 15 at spine edge approx. 1/8 " in diameter. Very light soiling to boards. ; B&W Illustrations; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 129 pages .

New York: Brentano's, 1929 2024-01-01. First THUS. Hardcover. Good. Kettelwell, John. BW plates by John Kettelwell, 8vo.: Chipped/frayed/faded buckram, front hinge a bit loose with beginning splitting to front paste-down at head of gutter, bright pages, no ownership markings: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher. Fine with no dust jacket. 1915. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 72 pages; Vellum spine shows very small tear at top and bottom, some darkening and minor wear. Covers with light soiling and edgewear. 1 of 250 copies printed. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1919. Limited Edition. Vellum. Very Good. 4to. Pp. vii, 52. Introduction by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Copy #421 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Corners a tad worn, with some wear along fore-edge of covers. Printed by John Henry Nash. Burton's distillation of Sufi thought, presented as a response to the Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam, is a slight literary hoax inasmuch as Burton didn't translate the work at all, but wrote it from whole cloth. With a worthy introduction by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt.

New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine in a broken chemise and slipcase lacking a small piece. Valenti Angelo. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full lavender morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine and elaborate embossing on both covers. Printed on double folded Japanese Kozo paper with four color floral borders and illuminations by hand with pure gold and silver by Valenti Angelo. Copy #834 of 1500 numbered copies designed and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

Philadelphia/Washington Square: David McKay Company, Inc., 1931. First Thus . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Pogany, Willy. The only poetical work of its kind in the English language, which retains the meter, refrain, & stanzaic structure & thought of the original Arab. Translated & Annotated by his friend & pupil,19th-century British poet & scholar Sir Richard Burton, with dramatic woodcut illustrations by Willy Pogeny. "Not only a poem, but the life-philosophy of a thoughtful man of action,'' the Kasidah can be roughly translated as "testament." In pages, with extensive explanatory Notes by Burton, Introduction by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Orig. published in this is the First Printing of David McKay's edition from . With cloth-over boards lettered in to front & spine, the book is in Good+ condition: generlly very clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy white with age-appropriate tanning, completely unmarked. exterior show rubbing to extremities, bumped corners, with some fraying at… Read More

New Haven: The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Signed Limited edition #594 of 1500 copies. Sm. octavo. Approx. 6 x 4". pp. SIGNED by illustrator, Valenti Angelo. Full lavender embossed leather. Printed on double folded Japanese Kozo paper with floral borders and gold illumination by Valenti Angelo. Leather is faded on edges and spine. in folding chemise, that is a delicate and has crack on spine. Nice bookplate on the chemise of C.M. Louttit, author and child psychologist. In slipcase that has rubbing to corners and edges. "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi," is a pseudonym of Sir Richard Burton, so the book was written by him and is not from an original Persian text.

New York; New Haven, CT: Limited Editions Club, Yale University Press, Printing Office, 1937. Limted Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Limted Edition. Hardcover. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (1880) is a long English language poem written by "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi," a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist and explorer. In a note to the reader, Burton claims to be the translator of the poem, to which he gives the English title "Lay of the Higher Law." It is thus a pseudotranslation, pretending to have had an original Persian text, which never existed. The Kasidah is essentially a distillation of Sufi thought in the poetic idiom of that mystical tradition; Burton had hoped to bring Sufist ideas to the West. Minimally sunned and toned, mildly starting, discoloration to endpapers, else tight, bright, unmarred. Bound in full lavender calf with gilt lettering on the spine and elaborate embossing on both covers. Printed on double folded Japanese… Read More

New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Mild sunning to edges of book, light scratches on the rear cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine chemise and Very Good slipcase. Charming little book. Valenti Angelo. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full lavender morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine and elaborate embossing on both covers. Printed on double folded Japanese Kozo paper with four color floral borders and illuminations by hand with pure gold and silver by Valenti Angelo. Copy #214 of 1500 designed and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn glassine and a Fine chemise in a Very Good slipcase with one edge partly pulled up. Charming little book. Valenti Angelo. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full lavender morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine and elaborate embossing on both covers. Printed on double folded Japanese Kozo paper with four color floral borders and illuminations by hand with pure gold and silver by Valenti Angelo. Copy #1094 of 1500 designed and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. About Fine in a Near Fine chemise with some spotting and a Near Fine slipcase. Charming little book. Valenti Angelo. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full lavender morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine and elaborate embossing on both covers. Printed on double folded Japanese Kozo paper with four color floral borders and illuminations by hand with pure gold and silver by Valenti Angelo. Copy #323 of 1500 designed and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Fine in torn glassine and a Near Fine chemise and a Good slipcase with top edge detached. Charming little book. Valenti Angelo. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full lavender morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine and elaborate embossing on both covers. Printed on double folded Japanese Kozo paper with four color floral borders and illuminations by hand with pure gold and silver by Valenti Angelo. Copy #478 of 1500 designed and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.