1914 Contes Persans: Scenes de la Vie Reelle et Recits de la Frontiere

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

In the original French.

The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.

Featuring scenes and real life stories from the Persian border, told in first person.

Illustrated with a frontispiece by Marie Molitor, a relation of the author.

With the bookplate of F. Diba to the front pastedown. Diba published a bibliography of Persia in 1981.

With the inscription of Allah Verdi to the front free endpaper, and with a former owner's inscription in ink to the title page in the same hand.

In the publisher's original paper wraps, with illustration to front wrap, and advertisements to rear wrap.