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(BELL, GERTRUDE.) Poems from the Divan of Hafiz. Translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell. 151, [1] pages, including half-title. Publisher's 16-page catalogue at end dated 1897. 12mo, 191x130 mm, original cloth, spine slightly faded, gilt lettering dulled; contents clean. London: William Heinemann, 1897
first edition of Bell's second book and the first published under her name, before she became known as a travel writer and political operative in the Middle East.with a signed inscription from bell on the verso of the half-title to James Carleton Young, dated June 1902, incorporating a quatrain from Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
