The Prophet
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. 1st Edition Thus. FauxLeatherbound. 4"x5.5" 105 pgs. 24th printing. Pocket Edition. Black faux boards w/gilt hand on front, letters on spine. Frontispiece. Black silk ribbon. Gibran's obit pasted to ffep. Newspaper article included. PON inside board w/retail sticker. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library. No DJ. Secure ship w/track #. Near Fine-Collectible. Item #14830
Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. Source: Goodreads.
Price: $500.00