This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...and gazed on me with their eyes; my sons and brethren bore me out on their lordly shoulders. In my very presence they dug a narrow-mouthed grave, they lowered me into it, and plastered it over my head.1 It was a shock when the worthy corpse-bearers turned their backs. They buried my body and went away, and whether I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...and gazed on me with their eyes; my sons and brethren bore me out on their lordly shoulders. In my very presence they dug a narrow-mouthed grave, they lowered me into it, and plastered it over my head.1 It was a shock when the worthy corpse-bearers turned their backs. They buried my body and went away, and whether I would or not the Lords of the Club2 came to me, they raised their clubs and struck me in the face, and pounded my body into grains of earth and fine dust. Ants and worms feed under my ears and black wasps have taken up their abode in the hollow of my nostrils. My withered eyes are filled with earth and sand, and my dry teeth imitate the appearance of betel-nut.3 For a moment I stayed in that place. Women came by with the hair of their heads all twisted. These are those women who have killed their little children; they ground them with a millstone from the skirt of the mountains, and they fought bitterly over the blue water. For a moment I stayed in that place, and men came by with their faces and beards all dried up. These are those men who did wicked deeds, and cast their eyes upon their mothers-in-law, and the wives of their 1 Tombs in Northern India are generally heaps of earth of which the surface is covered with mud plaster mixed with chopped straw to give it tenacity. 2Munkir and Nakir. 3 There is evidently a gap in the narrative here, and what follows is but a fragment of an account of the punishments inflicted on the wicked. brethren and sons, and put their brethren's honour under their feet. Now I will pass on, and tell the youths who follow after me to mortify their passions in God's name. Without dissimulation give hospitality to all comers. Leave me now and do good to the poor. Rejoinder of Moses. Thou wast a king blind in thy govern...
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Add this copy of Popular Poetry of the Baloches Text and Translations to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Collins Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1907 by David Nutt.
Add this copy of Popular Poetry of the Baloches; 2 Vols. Bound in 1; to cart. $43.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Baluchi Academy.
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Very Good in good jacket. Second edition, 1988 (first was 1907). Hardcover in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, about Very Good in Good dust jacket, discoloratione to some pages and to the page-edges, rubbing or wear to the tips and edges of the covers, dust jacket is affixed to the book on the front pastedown, dust jacket with significant wear including creasing and crinkling. Dust jacket enclosed in archival dust jacket protector. Rare book.
Add this copy of Popular Poetry of the Baloches, Vol. I to cart. $48.00, good condition, Sold by Munster & Company rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Corvallis, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1907 by The Royal Asiatic Society.
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Good. The Royal Asiatic Society, 1907. Ex-library copy with very minimal markings; volume 1 only; bound in stiff cardboard wrappers; top edge deckled; cover very lightly rubbed/bumped/soiled/foxed/sunned, spine quite sunned, tape/notation in crayon on spine near the bottom spine end, spine ends lightly rubbed/chipped, few small tears at the spine ends, signatures very slightly exposed at the spine ends, binding otherwise intact; edges very lightly rubbed/bumped/soiled, lightly sunned, top edge quite sunned, bottom edge faintly foxed; interior very lightly age-toned throughout, endpapers quite foxed, pastedowns lightly foxed, small chips at the bottom corners of the ffep/pastedowns, very light foxing sprinkled throughout; binding tight; cover, edges and interior intact and clean, except where noted; due to the size/weight of this item, additional shipping charges may apply for International or Expedited orders. hardcover. Good.
