1914

The Crescent Moon

Child-Poems

By Rabindranath Tagore

Translated from the Original Bengali by the Author

With Eight Illustrations in Color

Rare Antique Book ~ Decorative-Cloth Publisher’s Binding ~ Signed-Binding by Thomas Sturge Moore ~ Embossed Gilt Stamping ~ Color Plates ~ Fairies ~ Magic ~ Myth ~ Legend ~ Folklore ~ Mysticism

Publisher:

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914.

Features:

Measures 7.6 x 5.5 inches.

Original decorative-cloth publisher’s binding: blue cloth with embossed gold-gilt stamping.

Signed-binding bearing the designer T. Sturge Moore’s “TSM” monogram.

Illustrated with eight full-page color plates by Nandalall Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, Abanindranath Tagore, and Surendranath Gangult.

82 pages plus publisher’s ads.

Condition:

Very Good –.

The covers are faded and tanned at the edges, with darkening to the spine, a bumped corner, and light wear to the corners and spine ends. The textblock is solid and square. The pages are very clean and bright with offsetting (tanning) to the pages facing the plates. Old ink name dated 1915 to the front free endpaper. No other writing or marking.