For bibliophiles and for those interested in Indian mythology, we are pleased to offer an extremely rare First Edition of the Ramcharitmanas translated into Gujarati by Ramnarayan Nagardas Pathak.
Born in 1905, Ramnarayan Nagardas Pathak was profoundly influenced by Gandhiji and was actively involved in the satyagraha movement. He nurtured a deep interest in folk literature and Sanskrit poetry. His novels were imbued with the nationalist ideology. In the 1940s, he was one of the first to translate the work of Premchand into Gujarati. In the 1970s, he undertook to translate a selection of around 2500 dohas of the Ramcharitmanas into Gujarati. First published in 1976, this book contains the original Awadhi dohas in Gujarati script followed by the Gujarati translation.
This rare First Edition features a portrait of Tulsidas by the great artist Ravishankar Raval. The cover art and the frontispiece were designed by Somalal Shah, a remarkable artist who was also a student of Kshitindranath Mazumdar.
Several images of this rare First Edition are attached herewith for the perusal of those interested.
RAMCHARITMANAS
Author: Tulsidas
Translated from Awadhi into Gujarati by: Ramnarayan Nagardas Pathak
Frontispiece art by: Somalal Shah
Portrait of Tulsidas by: Ravishankar Raval
Publisher: Ramcharit Manas Prakashan, Bhavnagar, 1976 — Highly Rare First Edition
Language: Gujarati (with quotations in Awadhi)
Format: Hardcover
Size: 22 cm x 14.5 cm
Pages: xxiv + 428 pages + 1 frontispiece + 1 plate featuring a portrait of Tulsidas
Condition: Pre-owned. Very Good+. Pages clean & unmarked. Original tight binding. Natural yellowing/foxing of some pages owing to age. Slight shelf-wear to the corners/edges of the covers; the covers are neatly wrapped in an acetate film for future protection. Portions of the blue fabric on the spine are toned and faded; image attached.
Remarks: The value of this particular book that we are offering lies in its extreme rarity for being the very First Edition originally published in 1976 in Gujarat.
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