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The Kasidah of Hahi Abdu El-Yazdi
by EL-YEZDI, Abdu (Richard F. Burton)
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48088
- Title
- The Kasidah of Hahi Abdu El-Yazdi
- Author
- EL-YEZDI, Abdu (Richard F. Burton)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Poetry;
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Spine
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