Min Hadith Al-Shi`R Wa-Al-Nathr

Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1969. 10th ed. Quarto in quarter leather and brown polished faux leather 'cloth', with raised bands and gilt titles to spine; sewn binding; 175 p. A legitimately deaccessioned ex-library copy with very minimal markings; never circularted; original wraps not bound in. In a super sturdy custom, sewn binding. Hardcover.

Presumably scarce thus in sewn binding. In Arabic. Taha Husayn, whose name is also Romanized as Taha Hussein and Taha Husain, lived from 1889 - 1973 and was an important figure of the modernist movement in Egyptian literature, He wrote a variety of forms, all in Arabic: novels, stories, criticism, and social and political essays. Arabic literature -- History and criticism. Arabic poetry; Arabic prose. Egypt; Arabic literary criticism. Taha Hussein , Taha Husain