Oriental Proverbs Selected Interpreted Rendered by Bowen, Signed (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1980. No Edition Remarks. 80 pages. Signed by the author. Paper and cloth covered boards with gilt. Covered with the original glassine printed wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pen correction to text noted. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1st edition thus; Xvi & 80 pages attractively bound in green paper-covered boards with a brown cloth spine lettered in gilt and a black, gilt &rust decoration applied to the front cover. Decorated eps; Fine and apparently unread copy. Author signed on title page; The dust jacket is clear glassine lettered in white- that has a couple of small closed tears/nicks; it has a little of the imprint of the cover pressed against it. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Privately Published. This new copy is quarter bound in brown cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine. There are green cloth covered boards with an attractive green calf gilt floral design let into the upper board. There are marbled endpapers. There is a clear acetate dustwrapper. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. In this, the fourth of his own verse anthologies, John Bowen has made a collection of proverbs and familiar sayings of India and the Near east, on the basis of each of which he has composed an original English poem, long enough to enable the truth of the proverb to be distilled, and short enough to ensure that its epigrammatic brevity is not lost in translation. This anthology brings together for the first time a large number of Oriental proverbs of unusual beauty and vitality, in many of which beasts and insects play a far more important and amusing role than in our own. The reason for this, and for the abundance of proverbs about the camel, is suggested by Bowen in an Introduction in which he assesses proverbs to be 'the oldest, wisest and best remembered philosophy in the world' This dedicated copy has been signed by the author on the obverse of the f.e.p. Ref KKK 1. Signed by Author(s).