Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
Published by Macmillan Company, 1916, New York, 1916
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books
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Condition: Used
US$ 8,500.00
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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.".
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
- Author
- Tagore, Rabindranath (signed)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company, 1916, New York
- Publication year
- 1916
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- A collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali. With an introduction by W.B. Yeats
- Edition
- New Edition, 1916.
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