Thoughts And Meditations

New York: The Citadel Press. Very Good- in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is a Stated First Edition. This book is in Very Good- condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The text pages are clean, but noticeably generally toned due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket has some light generalized rubbing and a couple of very small edge tears. "In 1904, Gibran's drawings were displayed for the first time at Day's studio in Boston, and his first book in Arabic was published in 1905 in New York City. With the financial help of a newly met benefactress, Mary Haskell, Gibran studied art in Paris from 1908 to 1910. While there, he came in contact with Syrian political thinkers promoting rebellion in the Ottoman Empire after the Young Turk Revolution; some of Gibran's writings, voicing the same ideas as well as anti-clericalism, would eventually be banned by the Ottoman authorities. In 1911, Gibran settled in New York, where his first book in English, The Madman, would be published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, with writing of The Prophet or The Earth Gods also underway. His visual artwork was shown at Montross Gallery in 1914, and at the galleries of M. Knoedler & Co. In 1917. He had also been corresponding remarkably with May Ziadeh since 1912." (from Wikipedia) .