Gitanjali by Tagore Rabindranath: Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 101 pp, October 1926, covers are lightly worn, corners bumped, top edge a bit soiled, inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, the inscription is "To Alfred Kahn with Kindest Thoughts by Rabindranath Tagore" but we think it might be to French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn because they knew each other and Tagore visited and was photographed in his gardens. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 101pp, 5pp ads in rear. Straight spine and sturdy binding, upper rear corner a bit bumped. Mild edgewear, mild wear to spine ends. Extremities a bit sunned, pages unmarked throughout. Previous owner's bookplate laid in. Residue from bookplate on FFEP. Orevious owner's last name in pencil on FFEP. Penciled notes on back of FFEP in same hand, indicating that the book was signed on Nov. 25, 1916. Signed by Tagore in black ink on half-title. Pictorial frontispiece of Tagore, 1914 publication date on title page. Acetate wrapper with volume. Sound, handsome copy of Tagore's masterwork, signed by the 1913 Nobel laureate. With introduction by W.B. Yeats. First thus. Signed by Author(s). Book. …

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.". A collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali. With an introduction by W.B. Yeats (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. G. Not a first edition but a 1919 reprint courtesy of Macmillan London. Corners bumped, rubbing to edges, mild general evidence of handling and wear. Rubbing becomes fraying at corner tips esp. bottom front. Pushing and rubbing to spine crown and heel. Age together with rubbing at spine corners has resulted in splits and a bit of tearing to the blue cloth thereat. Internally, hinges fore and aft are partly split, affording peeps of the mull; binding somewhat shaken. Small bookseller's sticker to bottom corner of front pastedown (W.H. Smith in Paris). A pencilled notation "LCrit0200" to top of ffep. Some toning to front and end matter, and the glassine protective sheet for the frontispiece has left a perfect shadow in dark toning to the title page. There seems to be a single instance of underlining on p. xiv of Yeats' Introduction, in neat and rather faint colored pencil, to seven consecutive words. Some of the verse numerators are circled in plain pencil: 20, 28, 37, 43, and 48; possibly more although we noticed no others. Otherwise, pages are generally quite clean and clear. SIGNED by Tagore in English on the frontispiece: "Rabindranath Tagore / Oct. 11, 1920 / Paris". At this point in October 1920, Tagore was spending some time in Paris before embarking for America. A previously appreciated, century-old copy of a true literary masterpiece by the first non-Western recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. Signed by Author.…

Illustrated edition of these two interconnected poetry collections by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original purple cloth decorated in gilt on the front cover and spine, floral endpapers, illustrated with a color frontispiece and plates. Boldly signed by Rabindranath Tagore on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Introduction by W. B. Yeats. Illustrations by Nandalal Bose, Surendranath Kar, Abanindranath Tagore, and Nobendranath Tagore. Rare and desirable signed. Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering brings together two interconnected collections of poetry by Rabindranath Tagore that explore spirituality, human emotion, and nature. Gitanjali, first published in English in 1912 with an introduction by W. B. Yeats, centers on the soul's direct and intense connection to the divine, and it was largely for this work that Tagore was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first non-European to be so honored. Its sequel, Fruit-Gathering, first published in 1916, turns toward personal introspection, narrative allegory, and the lessons harvested from life's challenges. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, composer, philosopher, and painter who reshaped Bengali literature and music, founded the school and university at Santiniketan, and composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.…