Search results for: 'GIBRAN, Kahlil'
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Twenty Drawings.New York : 1919
First edition, first printing, inscribed by Gibran on the front free endpaper, "To Margarrite Marguerite? Harrison Day, with kindest thoughts from Kahlil Gibran, 1923". The recipient has proved unidentifiable, though it is tempting to think her some relation of Gibran's early creative mentor the Boston photographer Fred Holland Day.
Twenty Drawings... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 137819
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GIBRAN, Kahlil - DOLE, William Haskell. Omar the Tentmaker.Boston : 1899
First edition, with the cover design being the first attributed work published by Kahlil Gibran, the celebrated poet, artist, and author of The Prophet. This work is rare; although reasonably well-represented in institutions, many copies were rebound, thus losing the Gibran illustration; we could trace no copies on the market, and only three auction... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 144573
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Original drawing: the Prophet Almustafa.1923 or after
Original drawing by the author, a version of the same image that was used as the frontispiece to The Prophet. It is evidently an idealized portrait of Gibran himself. Several versions are known; this example was a gift to Barbara Young, his last companion and assistant, author of a biography of Gibran.
Gibran (1883-1931) emigrated from Lebanon... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 130660
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms.New York : 1926
First trade edition, first impression, rare in the dust jacket. Born in Lebanon, the poet Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) emigrated to the US at a young age. He became a leading member of the "Pen League", an influential circle of Arab writers based in New York. After producing several works in Arabic, he published his masterpiece, The Prophet, in English... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127018
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Jesus The Son of a Man.New York : 1928
First edition, first printing, of Gibran's imaginative biography of Jesus, made up of poetic character sketches voiced by "those who knew him". Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138648
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Twenty Drawings.New York : 1919
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from Alice Raphael Eckstein, author of the introductory essay, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "With friendliest associations of the ? collection and all good wishes from Alice Raphael Eckstein, Nov. 12 1931". Eckstein (1887-1975) was a leading art critic and Goethe scholar, whose recognition of... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 140096
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Twenty Drawings.New York : 1919
First edition, trade issue, of Gibran's first and only collection of drawings, retaining some parts of the rare dust jacket laid in. "For Gibran the canvas represented another form in which his poetry could be expressed... the pieces included in Twenty Drawings clearly demonstrate the mystical qualities Gibran imbued in all his works, whatever the medium"... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 137326
