The Book of Khalid

by Ameen Rihani

$5,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911. First edition, first printing of what is considered to be the first Arab-American novel. Bound in publisher's original ribbed plum cloth lettered in white and decorated in blind. With title page, chapter heading, and tailpiece vignettes by Rihani's friend and student, Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran. Near Fine with light mottling to cloth mostly visible in raking light, light spottingto top

• Printing: first

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