Birds through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets: Arab Poetry of the Abbasid Period
by Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf, Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz and Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri; translated with an introduction by G.B.H. Wightman and A.Y. al-Udhari
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0140443053
- ISBN 13
- 9780140443059
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About This Item
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1975. Softcover. Very Good+. Pocket-size, 4 3/8 x 7. 2G. A nice flat copy with little handling wear. Tight binding with uncreased spine, which is slightly off square. No marks. Pages toned. A little cover wear and creasing.
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- Fox & Hedgehog (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 659
- Title
- Birds through a Ceiling of Alabaster
- Author
- Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf, Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz and Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri; translated with an introduction by G.B.H. Wightman and A.Y. al-Udhari
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140443053
- ISBN 13
- 9780140443059
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex
- Date Published
- 1975
- Pages
- 128
- Size
- Pocket-size, 4 3/8 x 7
- Keywords
- Poetry, Arabic poetry, Abbasid dynasty Baghdad
- X weight
- 12 oz
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- Spine
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