Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali – 1920

An early English-language edition of this renowned prose collection by the Indian Nobel Prize-winning writer.

Text translated from the original Bengali by the author. With an introduction by W.B. Yeats.

Gitanjali remains amongst Tagore’s best-known and most acclaimed collections, and roughly translates into English as ‘Song Offerings’.

Published in 1920 by Macmillan in London, a later printing of the March 1913 first impression. With a sketch of the author opposite the title page. In very bright and clean condition indeed.

Hardback, bound in blue cloth, with gilt lettering and border. In very bright condition, no fading or rubbing to the title lettering. Small contemporary bookseller’s sticker to inside cover, no other writing. Toning to the title page. Binding tight and square.