[Rarebooks] FS: Signed copy: Rabindranath Tagore's Thought Relics

[Allington Books]

*Offered*: *Rabindranath Tagore:  Thought Relics, Rare Signed Copy. *

Tagore, Rabindranath. *Thought Relics* [Signed]. New York: The Macmillan
Company, 1921. First American edition. An essentially Fine copy of the
first American edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original light
brown paper over boards, with the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and
the front board lettered in gilt and decorated in blind (surface wear to
the top and bottom board edges, light pushing at the spine ends, lacking
the first (of 2) front free endpaper, some offsetting from the dust jacket
to the pastedowns and adjoining free endpapers), in a Fine dust jacket
(minor chipping at the spine tail), SIGNED BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE on the
title page; a collection of Tagore's spiritual and philosophical
reflections. Rabindranath Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which,
with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own
English words, a part of the literature of the West". (Tagore was fluent
both in Bengali and in English. A close friend of Gandhi's -- each man
admired the other greatly -- he also was knighted by the British in 1915,
but later resigned the honor in protest of British policies in India.
Though he supported Indian independence, he urged the Indian people not to
view themselves as victims of the British, seeing instead British rule as a
"political symptom of our social disease", urging not outright revolution
but rather advising the people to engage in self-help and education that
would ultimately produce a capable and independent nation. Interestingly,
it was Tagore who Tagore who popularized "Mahatma" (or "Great Soul") as a
description of Gandhi.) Significantly, Tagore was the first non-European to
win the Prize. A polymath, he wrote novels, essays, short stories,
travelogues, and dramas, as well as over two thousand songs for which he
wrote both the lyric and music. Signed copies of Tagore's works, especially
in collectible condition, are remarkably scarce. (Our search of the auction
records back to 1935 reveals a number of signed photographs and letters,
but no signed copies of Tagore's books.) "Thought Relics", offered here, is
the only book Tagore wrote originally in English and, even when not signed,
is itself quite scarce. Copies in the dust jacket are scarcer still, and
copies as nice as is this one are rarely seen. Signed copies of the book in
any condition are scarcer than hen's teeth, and signed copies in a
condition as nice as is this one are absolute rarities. A Fine copy of the
only book written in English by the first non-European winner of the Nobel
Prize in Literature, SIGNED BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE. A remarkable find.
RARE. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (#00003105)        $6,000.00


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