Lot#48 || THE POST OFFICE: A PLAY BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Rabindranath Tagore
(1931)
8.50 x 5.80 x 0.25 in
Estimate ₹ 5,000 - ₹ 15,000
By Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Devabrata Mukerjea
Limited edition of 400 copies of which this is No. 274
True first edition published by Tagore’s friend and poet W B Yeats’s wife at the Cuala
Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, Ireland, in 1914, a few months before the trade edition. Published by Macmillan later that year.
Preface by W B Yeats. pp. [vi] 38 / printed in red and black
The book was sold out on the day of publication itself. Original cloth spine with paper-covered boards. Typed sticker of the previous owner [Eric Denny] stuck to the front endpaper. Covers soiled.
Tagore's Bengali play Daak Ghar (The Post office) highlights a sick boy's yearning to experience the outside world as he interacts with people from his room's window. A play even more relevant in the pandemic stricken world today, hungry for social interaction.
Limited edition of 400 copies of which this is No. 274
True first edition published by Tagore’s friend and poet W B Yeats’s wife at the Cuala
Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, Ireland, in 1914, a few months before the trade edition. Published by Macmillan later that year.
Preface by W B Yeats. pp. [vi] 38 / printed in red and black
The book was sold out on the day of publication itself. Original cloth spine with paper-covered boards. Typed sticker of the previous owner [Eric Denny] stuck to the front endpaper. Covers soiled.
Tagore's Bengali play Daak Ghar (The Post office) highlights a sick boy's yearning to experience the outside world as he interacts with people from his room's window. A play even more relevant in the pandemic stricken world today, hungry for social interaction.
