Rabindranath Tagore - Gora 1st Edition 1924 - SIGNED and dated

Description: Up for sale is a extremely scarce signed first edition copy of "Gora" by Rabindranath Tagore. This is the very sought after first English edition of the book.Featuring a strong and sharp signature on the front end paper. Signed and dated by Tagore, "June 16th 1924". The book also has a interesting ownership history. The bookplate is that of William James Morden, an explorer and naturalist for the American Museum of Natural History, and his wife Florence. See link here -https://data.library.amnh.org/archives-authorities/id/amnhp_1001464 The book is in good condition, some wear to the outer boards, and minor staining. The pages are mostly clean and crisp, very little foxing is present. some pages are slightly faded, but overall they are in great shape. Buy with confidence, any questions at all please let me know!_____________________________________ Gora is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj. It is rich in philosophical debate on politics and religion. Other themes include liberation, universalism, brotherhood, gender, feminism, caste, class, tradition versus modernity, urban elite versus rural peasants, colonial rule, nationalism and the Brahmo Samaj. Tagore was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter during the age of Bengal Renaissance.Tagore reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Price: 3999 USD

Location: Findlay, Ohio

End Time: 2024-11-24T19:37:18.000Z

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