Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
Rabindranath Tagore, with an introduction by W B Yeats
Published by Macmillan, London, 1913
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Early printing. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 13cm, xxii + 101pp, 2pp ads. Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English prose poems, which are Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912. Condition: A good copy. There is light rubbing to the cloth, and the frontispiece is starting to loosen. A newspaper clipping concerning Tagore and India has been pasted in at the rear endpaper and has left tanning. However, the main body of text is in good, strong readable condition. Seller Inventory # 016449
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Title: Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Publication Date: 1913
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: 5th or later Edition
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Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
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Macmillan Company, 1916, New York, 1916
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Hardcover
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Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
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A collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali. With an introduction by W.B. Yeats (illustrator). New Edition, 1916. Modestly bound in finely woven green cloth stamped brightly in gold on the front boards and dulled on the spine. With wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends and at the corners. With Christmas greetings in ink dated 1916 on the front endpaper. With two faint vertical rust streaks on the rear panel. The frontispiece drawing of a meditating Tagore has been signed by him and dated: "Rabindranath Tagore, 1916." Bengali poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore modernized and reshaped Bengali literature and music throughout the early 19th and late 20th centuries as a leading figure in the Contextual Modernist movement of West India. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English Gitanjali. The frontispiece drawing of a meditating Tagore has been signed by him and dated: "Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.". Seller Inventory # 2503