Oriental Proverbs Selected Interpreted Rendered by Bowen (4 results)
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Published by Luzac & Co., 1980
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Add to basketCondition: 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.
Language: English
Published by Luzac and Co. Ltd., London WC1, 1980
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 80pp. 12mo. Bound in green paper covered boards to a brown cloth spine which has title in gilt on black. Also a gilt coloured decoration to the upper cover. The end-papers are also decorated. This copy is a SUGNED PRESENTATION to "Mount Pleasant in gratitude for much kindn…ess". Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by Luzac and Co Ltd., London, 1980
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 post…al 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).
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Published by Published by Luzac and Co. Ltd., 46 Great Russell Street, London First Edition . 1980., 1980
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green paper covered boards with a brown cloth spine lettered in gilt and a black gilt and red device applied to the front cover, chevron colour end papers. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains [xvi] 80 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in original clear acetat…e dust wrapper with two small tears to the rear, not price clipped. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.
