GIBRAN, KAHLIL (TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY ANTHONY R. FERRIS) — Thoughts and Meditations

New York, NY: The Citadel Press, 1960. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean, but have generalized toning. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, some rubbing and nicking, along with bumping to the spine ends. The rear cover has several small spots of ground-in dirt. "Born in a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite family, the young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Gibran was sent back to his native land by his family at the age of fifteen to enroll at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut. Returning to Boston upon his youngest sister's death in 1902, he lost his older half-brother and his mother the following year, seemingly relying afterwards on his remaining sister's income from her work at a dressmaker's shop for some time. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .