Description

Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold in publisher’s dust-jacket. 292 pages. Index of Headings. Translated by Dick Davis. Illustrated with 10 full page black and white drawings. Stated first hardcover edition. The story of Rostam, ancient Persia’s greatest mythological hero, as recounted in the tenth-century Shahnameh (Book of Kings) by the poet Ferdowsi. Book condition: Spine crease from reading and very mild evidence of pencil underlining having been erased. Dust-jacket condition: complete and unmarked, like new. A very good copy in a fine dust-jacket. Scarce.