Ayyam Ma'ah Days with Him

by Colette Khoury, Kulit Khuri

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Beirut: Al-Kutub, 1959. First edition. Signed by Colette Khoury on the front free endpaper in green ink, inscribed to previous owner. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. In Arabic. Very Good with cocked and creased spine, light wear, a few dog-eared pages. Scarce signed. A pioneering feminist novel that caused a major scandal in the Arabic literary world for its taboo depictions of female sexuality and agency.

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