Iranian Studies

Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1966. First edition. Quarto. 217pp. Original blue stiff wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece portrait. Presented to Kaj Barr on his Seventieth Birthday June 26, 1966. Essays on translations of psalms by Persian Jews. These translations were edification par excellence and at the same time sources of inspiration for an independent poetry. Illustrated with two b/w reproductions from Judeo-Persica IV. Memorandum by Rudolph C. Troike from Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, Virginia, laid in. Text in Russian, German, French, English, Swedish and Persian. Wrappers with wear along edges, some scuffing at bottom of cover. Two inch closed tear at head of spine. Previous owner's named inked onto half-title.