THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL-YEZDI
London: Privately printed by Bernard Quaritch, 1880. First Edition, Second Issue. Thin Quarto, 33 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Original yellow paper wraps bound in three-quarter green leather and cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards show cracking at the hinges with some separation of the boards and binding, bumping and fraying at the corners, and small tears and creasing to original wraps (with tape repairs). Text block is clean with scattered spotting and foxing throughout interior. GP Consignment. Shelved in Case 0.
1259895
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $2,800
NOTES
Thought by most to be written, not translated by Richard Burton, an early transcription of Sufi ideas. First and second issues thought to number only around 200-250 copies.