The Crescent Moon [WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH]

First English edition in publisher’s blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to front board and gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt. Binding in very good condition with slight discolouration to spine, minor fraying to top and bottom of spine and browning to first end papers. Coloured illustration by Nandallal Bose as frontispiece opposite protective sheet of tracing paper. Silver gelatin image of Tagore labelled as from 1921 laid in along with a copy of a Tagore poem hand written by the book’s previous owner. Clearly a book owned by a devotee of Tagore.