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A Tear and A Smile
by Kahlil Gibran
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394448049
- ISBN 13
- 9780394448046
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1977. Hardcover. 24th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; Price Clipped; slight chipping and closed tear in cover at head of spine. Black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine; gilt hand holding humanity on front board; embossed title on front board. 197 pp 8vo This book is a fascinating fiction novel about the positive and negative aspects of life. This book exhibits emotional philosophy at its most untamed. The book also describes that spiritual hunger is the goal of life, quest is its own fulfillment. To realize a dream is to lose it and the satisfied of this world are the most wretched of people. In this book, these ideas are presented without sentimentalism divested of personification. Likewise, this book is in the main given over to the more positive moods. Thus, in this book the author has sped toward eternity and saw the world as a place where misfortune must purify the soul for its reunion with god. A clean pristine copy in Brodart mylar.
Synopsis
"I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude.And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile." 56 parables, stories, and poems in Gibran's wholly inimitable manner. Illustrated with 4 of his own paintings and drawings
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002706
- Title
- A Tear and A Smile
- Author
- Kahlil Gibran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394448049
- ISBN 13
- 9780394448046
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1977
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- KAHLIL GIBRAN, ARABIC POETS, THE PROPHET, LEBANESE POET, PHILOSOPHER, SPIRITUAL LIFE, MYSTICISM, Syrian Poet, poetry, philosophy, parables, The Prophet, poems, stories, fables,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Fine
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