L’Avare: Comédie Persane

Mirza DjaFar Qaradjadaghi; Auguste Bricteux (Published and Translated for the first time with an Introduction, Notes and a Glossary by). L’Avare: Comédie Persane. Liege; Paris: Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université de Liege; Les Belles Lettres, 1934. First edition. Quarto. [6], 99, [3]pp (French), 87, [1]pp (Persian). Original printed wrappers. Previous owner’s name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper, and dated 1960. First French-language edition of this classic of Persian literature. Spine and edges sunned and water-stained. Fore-edge of the first 5 leafs water-stained. Text in French and Arabic. Wrappers in overall fair, interior in good+ condition. fair to g. Paperback.

*Dr. Herbert Harry Paper (1925-2012) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and near Eastern Languages, and the Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He received a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Dr. Paper taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and joined HUC-JIR as the Dean of Graduate Studies. His specialties were Persian studies, concentrating on the history of the Persian language and on the ancient languages of Iran, and Yiddish literature. (37012) $75