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Hardcover. pp. viii, 247. Octavo, measuring 6" x 8.5". Publisher's lilac cloth over boards with title in bold letters with inverted colouring to the front board, in delightful mid-century style after George Lenox; publisher's black topstain, like endpapers. Lovely full-page line drawings printed to rectos only. An exceptionally well-preserved offering with crisp and clean extremities; excepting neat ink name to the upper-right margin of the ffep, text-block remains equally without blemish and housed in its original, price-clipped, dustjacket showing a small spot of rubbing to the front panel (now housed in protective mylar sleeve). A lovely offering of the (second) English translation of great Bengali polymath's first serious effort at a novel. Making its first appearance in serial form between 1902 and 1903 in the Bengali literary magazine Bangadarshan, it would be published in book form later in the same year (1903). Rendered into English in 1914 at the hands of Surendranath Tagore, this is the second English translation published in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi under the title "Bindoni" by Krishna Kripalani.…