The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran [FIRST EDITION] • 83rd Printing / 1969 • Alfred A. Knopf

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 

FIRST EDITION • 83rd PRINTING [1969] ALFRED A. KNOPF

83rd printing from 1969 of this U.S. first edition.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  

Near mint dust jacket with a chipped corner on front; otherwise stunning. Price clipped from front panel.  Looks great in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself look and reads like new.  Pristine gilded black cloth boards w/ just a touch of corner wear.

Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.

The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.