3/4 leather
1958 · New York
by Kahlil Gibran
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 3/4 leather. Very Good +. The 1958 60th printing (!!), in a very attractive custom binding: A handsome 3/4 dark-green morocco over marbled boards. With almost 2 dozen ribbed, gold-dotted raised bands along the spine and matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges. A touch of bowing at the front board, a small, neat pen inscription inconspicuously at the 2nd blank endpaper. Octavo, an eleant rebinding to one of th 20th century's most beloved spiritual classics.
(Inventory #: 22924)