Gessar Khan ... Illustrated

by Theodore Nadejen by Ida Zeitlin

$50 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First edition, 4to, pp. viii, 2 , 11-203, 1 ; title page printed in maroon and black; illustrated throughout, 16 full-page; one illustration with a short tear entering from the foremargin, otherwise a very good, sound and clean copy in original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Whether the origin of this epic is Tibetan or Mongolian is not clear, and there is no one definitive text. Item #67998

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