THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL-YEZDI. TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY HIS FRIEND AND PUPIL, F. B. SIR RICHARD F. BURTON, K.C.B.
by Burton, Richard (El-Yezdi, Haji Abdu)
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About This Item
Thomas Bird Mosher, Portland, Maine: 1915., 1915 pp. xxvii, 72 + Portrait frontis printed on Japan vellum. Title page printed in red and black. Text decorated with large red initials. Uncut and partially unopened. Japan vellum endpapers with facsimile of the front wrapper of the first edition (1880). Printed on hand-made Van Gelder paper. Inked ownership of Carlton Potter Small. Folio. Original Japan vellum spine and corners over blue paper boards, deeply gold lettered. Original gold lettered spine label. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Limited Edition of only 250 copies. Beautiful copy of one of Mosher's finest productions. Mosher himself considered it one of his best productions. Bishop 183. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PRESS/W39 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.
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- Title
- THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL-YEZDI. TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY HIS FRIEND AND PUPIL, F. B. SIR RICHARD F. BURTON, K.C.B.
- Author
- Burton, Richard (El-Yezdi, Haji Abdu)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Bird Mosher, Portland, Maine: 1915.
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- PRESS; MOSHER THOMAS B. MOSHER; FINE PRINTING; TYPOGRAPHY; LIMITED EDITION; KASIDAH; HAJI ABDU EL-YEZDI; RICHARD BURTON; FRANK BAKER; POEM; POETRY; BI BLIOGRAPHY; ELEGY
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Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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- Vellum
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Facsimile
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