Gitanjali (Song Offerings) : Tagore 1913 [ Yeats ]
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Early Copy of Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Noted Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore, First With WB Yeats Introduction, Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize
Tagore, Rabindranath. Yeats, W.B., intro. Gitanjali (Song Offerings). MacMillan and Co. Limited. London. 1913. Second Edition.
A well preserved early copy of the important poetry collection, Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore, who became the first Asian person to win the Nobel Prize for this text in 1913. A collection of 103 original Bengali poems and translated into English by Tagore, Gitanjali was originally published in a 1912 limited edition, before the issue of this first trade (second overall edition), which was the first to include the important, glowing introduction by Irish writer, playwright, poet, and occultist, William Butler Yeats.
101pp + [2] ads. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and borders to boards and spine. Rubbing to corners. Minor soiling back board. Bottom spine bumped. Small cloth tear to spine. Deckled edges. Pastedowns and endpapers foxed. Ownership signature first free endpaper. Pages toned but clean. Illustrated frontis. Ads uncut. Good.
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