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Comments and Notes: First Edition - Very Good hardcover/no dust jacket - Lahore (then India): Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at-i-Islam, 1924 - 7.25" tall - gilt lettered dark red cloth - two double page b&w maps: West Central Arabia & Jazirat-ul-'Arab (Arabia) - errata slip bound in - book printed in Germany by Josef Hirsch, Leipzig - light fraying at top & bottom of backstrip with closed 3/4" tear along its upper rear edge; publisher's presentation plate on front pastedown; light sunning at edges; otherwise unmarked - index - 285pp. Presumed first edition of a biography of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, translated from Urdu into English by Maulvi Muhammad Yaqub Khan, then Imam of the Mosque at Woking, U.K. © Copyright Periplus Line LLC 2000 | Updated: September 28, 2008 |
