The Poetic Play Chitra, Signed by Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore. CHITRA: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. Later (6th) printing. Hardcover. Light blue decorated cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. 12mo; 85, [3], plus [6] pages of ads. Signed by Tagore on the front free endpaper and dated "Jan. 13 1921" (with a typical new year error: the author originally wrote "1920," before crossing out the "0" and correcting it).

7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.

Rabindranath Tagore (India, 1861-1941) was a prolific writer, best known for his poetry, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In addition to writing, Tagore was also a painter, musician, and social reformer.

Although Tagore primarily saw himself as a poet, he engaged with many different writing genres, including short stories, essays, and more. Chitra, based on the Mahabharata, is one of several plays that he wrote.

Boards with toning (mostly on edges and spine), minor edge wear, a few areas of scuffing and faint stains, and corners lightly rubbed; wear to spine ends with closed tears and a 3/8-in. tear at the head, slight separation from text block; offsetting on front endpapers and a minor hole in rear hinge; interior with light toning, occasional finger grime, a few pages with edge wear, and a long repaired tear to one leaf not impacting text; gutters with browning, a rare spot of foxing, and occasional cracking (mostly at the start of Scene VII and IX); a good to very good copy.