Gitanjali

1913, an early printing of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Offerings

Author

Rabindranath Tagore, with an introduction by W B Yeats

Publisher

Macmillan, London, 1913

Printing Details

Early printing. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 13cm, xxii + 101pp, 2pp ads.

Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English prose poems, which are Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912.

Condition

A good copy. There is light rubbing to the cloth, and the frontispiece is starting to loosen. A newspaper clipping concerning Tagore and India has been pasted in at the rear endpaper and has left tanning. However, the main body of text is in good, strong readable condition.

Any questions?

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