"Le Prophète" by Kahlil Gibran, translated from English by Madeline Mason-Manheim

"Le Prophète" by Kahlil Gibran, translated from English by Madeline Mason-Manheim

Literature

French literature

American literature

Women authors, American

Women translators

A soft-cover edition of "Le Prophète" by Kahlil Gibran, translated from English by Madeline Mason-Manheim. Published in 1926 by Éditions du Sagittaire. 6.5 x 4.5 inches (15.5 x 11.5 centimeters)

Seller's Description (per website):
"Écrit en français, pas en anglais. En broché. Text in French, not in English. Paperback. First edition, first printing of the French language edition. Originally published in English in 1923 by Knopf; the first publication in French was in 1926 by Éditions du Sagittaire. This is copy no. 401 from a total edition of 750; the first 25 numbered copies were printed on Japan paper and the remaining copies on vélin de Rives. Printed in 1926 at the presses of the Imprimerie Sainte-Catherine at Bruges, Belgium. Approx. size 6.5 x 4.5 inches. [15.5 x 11.5 cm.] A paperback with beige matte wrappers, with fairly crisp red- and black-stamped lettering and design to front wrapper, and with faded black lettering to the spine. Wrappers are uniformly age-toned to a light brown. In dark ink at the top of the front wrapper is written "Paris" and also with a few small scribbles. With 122 numbered pages. First FEP with "Paris 1926" neatly printed in dark blue ink at the top; else a clean interior. Frontispiece reproduces a fragment from the author's manuscript for the book. Page 1 with B&W headpiece and page 122 with B&W tailpiece. The colophon page with details regarding the book's printing. A Good to Good Minus copy. Scarce in any condition. 5 oz. Coll. Les cahiers nouveaux. Traduit par Madeline Mason-Manheim. Fragment autographe du manuscrit (fac-similé) de Kahlil Gibran en frontispice. E.O. ex. num. sur vélin de Rives.? Caractéristiques spéciales: Édition limitée, Édition originale, Numéroté. Reliure: Couverture souple, Relié. Langue: Français. Pays d'origine: France. Gibran Khalil Gibran est un écrivain, poète et artiste visuel libano-américain d'expression arabe et anglaise [1883-1931] Il était également considéré comme un philosophe, bien qu'il ait lui-même rejeté ce titre. L'ouvrage combine les sources orientales et occidentales du mysticisme. Il présente sous une forme poétique questions et réponses sur les thèmes fondamentaux de l'existence.

Gibran, Kahlil

Owner/seller of this specific book: Marc Sena Carrel, Pacifica, CA, U.S.A.

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Éditions du Sagittaire

1926

Mason-Manheim, Madeline (translator)

Via, Madeleine

Owner/seller of this specific book: Marc Sena Carrel, Pacifica, CA, U.S.A.

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France, 20th Century | 1920s

Soft cover book