First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and dated 1923 on the rear free endpaper, upside-down. This first printing, which ran to just 2000 copies, is a scarce book in any condition, and extremely rare signed, with no other copies traced in commerce. Gibran is one of a select group of literary geniuses whose greatest works were written in a language other than that of their birth. Others would include Beckett, Conrad and Nabokov. Born in the Lebanon Gibran emigrated to the US and having published several works in Arabic he produced The Prophet, his masterpiece, in English in 1923. It has remained in print ever since.
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