The Prophet
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1979. Binding: contemporary quarter light yellow cloth over black cloth, title in gilt on flat spine, upper board with gilt decorative illustration, edges uncut, protective box with the title in black ink on label on spine and title within decorative red ruled box on the upper board.
, Notes: Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages. Born in a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite family, the young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Gibran was sent back to his native land by his family at the age of fifteen to enroll at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut. Returning to Boston upon his youngest sister's death in 1902, he lost his older half-brother and his mother the following year, seemingly relying afterwards on his remaining sister's income from her work at a dressmaker's shop for some time.
, Size: 8vo., , Illustration: The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work.
, Provenance: Blind stamp: Personal Library of Denis J. Chretien (D.J.C.) on title page. , Category: Book Literature. In very good condition. <br><br>. Item #B6352
Binding: contemporary quarter light yellow cloth over black cloth, title in gilt on flat spine, upper board with gilt decorative illustration, edges uncut, protective box with the title in black ink on label on spine and title within decorative red ruled box on the upper board.
, Notes: Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages. Born in a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite family, the young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Gibran was sent back to his native land by his family at the age of fifteen to enroll at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut. Returning to Boston upon his youngest sister's death in 1902, he lost his older half-brother and his mother the following year, seemingly relying afterwards on his remaining sister's income from her work at a dressmaker's shop for some time.
, Size: 8vo., , Illustration: The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work.
, Provenance: Blind stamp: Personal Library of Denis J. Chretien (D.J.C.) on title page. , Category: Book Literature.
Price: $125.00