The Near and the Far
MYERS, Leo Hamilton
[First Omnibus Edition.]
THE AKBAR SEQUENCE COMPLETE
Published: Jonathan Cape, [1943]
Stock code: 41517
Price: £70.00
8vo., First Edition thus, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original pale green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy.
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE 'AKBAR' SEQUENCE COMPLETE. The 'Akbar' sequence of novels has a relatively complicated history. The first two volumes, 'The Near and the Far' and 'Prince Jali', were first published in 1929 and 1931 respectively. They were then reissued, together with the third volume 'Rajah Amar', as a collected edition titled 'The Root and the Flower' (1934) by which name the trilogy thus far is generally known. This omnibus edition adds the fourth volume 'The Pool of Vishnu' (1940) presenting the sequence as a whole for the first time. 'The conversation between the Guru and MobarekĀ is of the most urgent contemporary significance as well as one of the perennial debates of mankind' (Concise Camb. Hist. Eng. Lit.). VERY SCARCE.