Faridun: A Story Taken from the Shahnama of Firdausi

Hardcover, black cloth with Farsi cover & spine title argent. 130 pp. Illustrated with full-page colourplates. An abridged version of a story from the massive Iranian epic, Shahnama (Book of Kings), in the original Farsi with English translation. Published by Western oil companies on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the accession of the then Shah, Mohammed Reza Pavli. The English translation is taken from the 1905 Warner translation of the epic. Soiling to fore-edge & bottom edge. Text in Farsi & English.