The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi, Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil Sir Richard Burton [Limited Edition, Signed by Kettelwell]

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New York: Brentano's, 1926. First Thus, Limited to 50 copies of which this is no. 32. Quarto; publisher's parchment over blue boards, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xiii,[1],169pp.; twelve full-page illus., text printed within decorative border throughout. Boards recased with renewed endpapers, a hint of shelf wear to extremities, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy overall. Signed by the illustrator on colophon. Splendidly illustrated edition of Richard Burton's poem, a pseudotranslation attributed to the Persian poet Haji Abdu el-Yezdi which was, in fact, Burton's "Eastern nom-de-plume" (p. ix). N° de ref. del artículo 14519

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