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London: At the Florence Press, Chatto & Windus, 1913. Edited with an English rendering by Israel Gollancz. Neatly inscribed on FFEP by I. Gollancz to Dr Beeching: 'With all good messages' 21 XII 1915. Also on FFEP and pastedown, a poorly effaced ink description of Gollancz. A bibliographic notice on newsprint(?) affixed to pastedown. There is wear to the corners of the boards, spine ends frayed, and some (bleachlike) stains to the cloth backing material. There is a slight waviness to the bottom of the pages, but they don't seem to have been dampened. The pages are beautiful and the presentation is an apt medium for subject and author. Number 281 of 550. Facsimile of ms. on frontispiece. Letterpress on handmade Aldwych paper. Untrimmed. From the description on the pastedown: 'Rubricated text. 'Olympia' may be read side by side with 'Pearl.' In addition to the poem there are translations of Boccaccio's references to his little daughter, 'Olympia,' who died when five and a half years of age. The Angel… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998. Jacket has minor soiliing and rubbing, Red Cloth of biding has 1 inch bubble, perhaps a manufacturing defect. Pages clean, tight and bright. Poets: Abbas Husain, Athar Tahir, Farida Faizullah, Ghulam Farduddin Riaz, Gulzar Bano, Mansoor Y. Sheikh, Masood Amjad Ali, Moeen Faruqi, Mona Hassan, Nishat Wasim, Perveen Pasha, Shahbano Bilgrami, Shahryar Rashed, Sheryar Singha, Soofia Ishaque, Zeba Hasan Hafeez. 'A rose does not smell,/as it once did, of love;'-Mona Hasan. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.