The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by His Friend and Pupil - 1896

Chicago: Reilly & Lee Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. No edition noted. Hardcover. Blue paper boards with silver decorations, black cloth spine with silver lettering front and spine, blue endpapers, each page with blue decorative borders top and bottom.; 4 x 6.5"; 128 pp; Boards sunned, 1934 gift inscription on FFEP. .

Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania: Bell Publishing Company, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. Introduction by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Small quarto. xvi, 129pp. Cloth faintly soiled, near fine housed in the original cardboard box with age-toning and lid corners torn and one side detached but present.

Portland, Maine: Thmoas B. Mosher, 1906. LIMITED EDITION, fifth edition overall. This Fifth Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies.. Cover has discolored stains with rubbed edges, and on the back has peeled marks with some soil spots. Title in red and black ink. Internally in very good condition, No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in GOOD MINUS condition. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi is a long poem written by "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi," who is widely considered an invention by the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton. In a note to the reader, Burton claims to be the translator of the poem, to which he gives the English title "Lay of the Higher Law." In notes following the poem, Burton claims to have received the manuscript from his friend Haji Abdu, a native of Darabghird in the Yezd Province of Persia. Describing Haji Abdu, Burton writes that he spoke an array of languages and notes that "his memory was well-stored; and he had every… Read More

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (Limited Edition). Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil, F. B. Copyright: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. This Tenth Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies. Paperback, 125 pages. (In L3 box670.)