LUTE AND SCIMITAR
Being Poems and Ballads of Central Asia Translated Out of Afghan, the Persian, the Turkoman, the Tarantchi, the Bokharan, the Balochi, and the Tartar Tongues Together with an Introduction and Historical Philological Annotations
by Achmed Abdullah
with a Preface by Hervey Allen
Published by Payson & Clarke, 1928. Limited edition, one of 500 printed and bound by the Plimpton Press. Very good hardcover, front hinge starting, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, clean unmarked text. Tall 8vo, 86 pages, purple cloth boards, paper title label to spin, dyed topedge. Wonderful art-deco bookplate to front endpaper, ex-libris William Rieck Althans, a Cleveland, Ohio book collector and member of the Rowfant Club; identified as 'opus 440' of artist Fritz Meier’s work.
Loc: E14
LUTE AND SCIMITAR
Being Poems and Ballads of Central Asia Translated Out of Afghan, the Persian, the Turkoman, the Tarantchi, the Bokharan, the Balochi, and the Tartar Tongues Together with an Introduction and Historical Philological Annotations
by Achmed Abdullah
with a Preface by Hervey Allen
Published by Payson & Clarke, 1928. Limited edition, one of 500 printed and bound by the Plimpton Press. Very good hardcover, front hinge starting, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, clean unmarked text. Tall 8vo, 86 pages, purple cloth boards, paper title label to spin, dyed topedge. Wonderful art-deco bookplate to front endpaper, ex-libris William Rieck Althans, a Cleveland, Ohio book collector and member of the Rowfant Club; identified as 'opus 440' of artist Fritz Meier’s work.
Loc: E14
