Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition; First Printing. Signed by Kriz on the title page. Very Good yellow paperback with a crease to the front cover. 342 pages, unmarked. Translated by Ellen Whitting. [dp50 0213]. ; F9F; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 342 pages; Signed by Author.
Language: English
Published by Luzac & Company Ltd,, London, 1947
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. vii, 326 pp., contemporary cloth, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, light foxing to endpapers, otherwise copy in very good condition. No translation into English of Al Fakhri is known, except the short excerpts in Browne's Literary History of Persia. This is a complete translation into English from the Arabic edition printed in Cairo in 1921. The author Safi ad-din Muhammed, known as Ibn at-Tiqtaqa, was a Sharif, eighteenth in descent from the fourth Caliph, and son of a tax collector in Iraq, killed by 'Ata Malik in 1281. #2838.