Kahlil Gibran: A Self-Portrait
by GIBRAN, Kahlil
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Citadel Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. The story of the life of poet Kahlil Gibran is told by means of sharing his letters to various correspondents from 1904 to 1930. Edited and with a translation into English from the Arabic and a biographical preface by Anthony R. Ferris. --- In decorative tan and red paper-covered boards backed in black cloth and with red topstain; spine titling in gilt. Jacket bears a photographic portrait of Gibran on cover. --- With inked gift inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise a clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket with creases to flaps, else nice and in old-style, removable Bro-dart protector.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall) ; 94 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81401
- Title
- Kahlil Gibran: A Self-Portrait
- Author
- GIBRAN, Kahlil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Citadel Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry; >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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