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The Prophet (Pocket Edition)
by Kahlil Gibran
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$265.91NZ$186.14
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , 1946 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. 1946. Hardcover. Pocket Edition. Stated Published 1927. Reprinted twenty times. Stated Twenty-second Printing January 1946. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; shelfwear to head, tail, and board top and bottom edges. DJ: Good; Price Clipped; light suntanning to spine; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; repaired closed tears to spine at head. Black grained boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and Prophet's golden hand holding dancing humanity on the front board. Internal Hinges are sound. Gilt text block top. Black satin page marker ribbon intact and in place. 105 pp 24 mo (5.5" x 4"). The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran.The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
Synopsis
A prophet has is about to board a ship home after 12 years in exile, when he is stopped by a group of people. His teachings to them, discussing love, marriage, crime, freedom and law among many other aspects of everyday life, form the 26 poetic essays of Gibran's work. The work has been a bestseller since its first publication.
Reviews
On Jan 21 2012, Asartlover said:
The Prophet is a book that has been around for a long time, but it is still relevant today. The thoughts about marriage and children are so insightful and poetic. It is a pleasure to 'dip into' sections of this book, and gain some understanding of the human condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015065
- Title
- The Prophet (Pocket Edition)
- Author
- Kahlil Gibran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 24mo - over 5 - 5¾"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, Almustafa, Orphalese, Lebanese poet, Middle Eastern Poetry, Human Condition, prose, poetry, prose poetry fables
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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