Irani Introduction Rabindranath Tagore (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 79pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Printed in Great Britain. [Date from the copyright page.] First Printing, stated. Introduction by Rabindranath Tagore, Notes at end; 79 pages. The original blue-black cloth is very good, except for bumping to one corner and to the spine ends; gilt lettering on the spine and upper board is about as bright as if just issued. The interior is fresh, crisp, and completely clean, despite pale toning to the endpapers. The original fragile dust jacket is in three pieces: it is sunned with two tears on the rear panel; surprisingly, no text is affected, except part of the spine---even the original price of five shillings is still present. [Please see my five images of the actual book.] "The best in the people works for long obscure ages in hints and whispers till it finds its true voice, which can never again be silenced. . . . It works across intervals of silence and oblivion, depression and defeat, and comes out again and again with its conquering call---a call to the fighter against untruth---against all that lures away the spirit from its high mission of freedom into the meshes of materialism." (From the Introduction.) As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.