A Self Portrait by Kahlil Gibran [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1970 • Bantam

A Self Portrait by Kahlil Gibran translated & edited by Anthony R. Ferris FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1969] BANTAM BOOKS 7th printing / 1970 w. beautiful illustrated cover. Vintage mass market paperback, like new and seemingly unread with some mild wear to cover. "Letters mingle souls," said the poet John Donne, & no better proof of this statement could be found than this collection of the letters of Kahlil Gibran.  In his letters the author of The Prophet, The Broken Wings, The Voice of the Master & other 20th-century classics bared his soul completely, & their strange magic inspired in his correspondents a like self-revelation. The letters in this book span 1904 to 1930, & truly constitute a self-portrait of the poet in the time of his greatest productivity. These are Gibran's Boston & New York years, with an interlude in Paris, during which he studied under the sculptor Auguste Rodin. There are touching letters here to his sister Miriana & other memb