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[BURTON, Richard Francis]. The Kasndah (couplets) of Hbjn Abd, El-Yezdn: A Lay of the Higher Law. Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil. F.B. London: Privately Printed, [1880].
4o (268 x 205 mm). (Without a half-title as called for by Penzer but with the three preliminary leaves.) Original printed yellow wrappers (some chipping and splitting to spine, light dust soiling); green cloth chemise and slipcase.
RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF BURTON'S GREATEST POEM, The "F.B." of the title-page was, in fact, Burton using his favored pseudonym of Frank Baker which he had also used on "Stone Talk," and he was not the translator but the author. Penzer p. 97-103; Casada 84; Spink 63.
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RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF BURTON'S GREATEST POEM, The "F.B." of the title-page was, in fact, Burton using his favored pseudonym of Frank Baker which he had also used on "Stone Talk," and he was not the translator but the author. Penzer p. 97-103; Casada 84; Spink 63.