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Kahlil Gibran
by Gibran, Jean and Kahlil Gibran
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0821205102
- ISBN 13
- 9780821205105
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small Quarto. Small 4to. 442 pp, introduction; 22 chapters, epilogue, notes, selected bibliography, index with b&w illustrations throughout. First Printing, 1974. 7/8", a 1/4" closed tear and a tiny chip to top edge front panel dj with lightly faded spine of same, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, page surfaces clean, cloth crisp. 7.25" x 10.25." Red cloth with blind-stamped black lettering on front board and spine. DJ in removable acetate protector. "This definitive biography of Kahlil Gibran -- author of the Prophet and voice of his Middle Eastern countrymen -- traces the phenomenon of a first-generation immigrant succeeding in twentieth-century American arts and letters. Drawing upon never-before-published letters and documents, the authors describe Gibran's boyhood in Lebanon, his family's impoverished years in turn-of-the-century Boston, and his eventual friendship withthat city's intellectual elite.".
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005112
- Title
- Kahlil Gibran
- Author
- Gibran, Jean and Kahlil Gibran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0821205102
- ISBN 13
- 9780821205105
- Publisher
- New York Graphic Society
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM LEBANESE-AMERICAN POET AND ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- Small Quarto
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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