1968 edition; Alfred A. Knopf publishers, New York; "illustrated with twelve full-page drawings by the author"; hardbound in black cloth boards with embossed lettering on cover and gilt stamp decor on cover and gilt lettering along spine; quite good condition with unmarked pages; boards very good; dust jacket has small stain at top cover and one tear; overall very good condition of book with good-fair condition of dust jacket.
 
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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.