Bannerji, Rajani Kanta — Gopal the Jester: A Hindu Romance

New York, Privately printed for The Library of Facetious Lore, 1928. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. The subject of this fascinating historical romance, Gopal Bhar, was for Bengalis a legendary court jester, so smart that he could outwit learned men and Bengali courtiers. This fine narrative is about the problems one encounters in Hindu culture when one attempts to find or choose a soul-mate. A fine and collectible edition of a marvelous book, translated from the original Bengali, being #55 of a small number of copies (750 copies) bound for private circulation only, thus a First Edition Thus. Bound simply in original yellow and blue cloth with paper label to spine, spine head bumped, tips scuffed, mildly worn and soiled exterior. Text clean, tight and free of markings, fore- and bottom-edges rough-cut. Big, tall, Imperial octavo format exemplar. Nirmal A. Das says in his Introduction, "It is not because Hindus are afraid of dealing with actualities of life, but because we do not help our community by exposing the apparently lurid love-life of the country, that esoteric literature has not become popular." Includes ten risque black-and-white line-sketches by Akos D. Hamza. Quite a nice copy. 168 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good