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The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

1937 · 006350 — New York Random House 1937 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 403 12 p. : ill. some col. ; 28 cm. ; LCCN: 37-39105 ; OCLC: 4405282 ; LC: PZ3.M825; PR5059.M4; Dewey: 823.7 ; Social manners and customs of Persia described in the language of a Spanish adventure romance involving the many adventures of a nineteenth-century Persian rogue none of which involve honest labor. ; decorated color cloth ; no dustjacket ; color illustration by Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge ; Contents: Of Hajji Baba's birth and education -- Hajji commences his travels and his captivity -- Into what hands Hajji falls his lucky razors -- Of his ingenuity in rescuing his master's money -- Hajji Baba becomes a robber in his own defence -- Concerning the three prisoners taken by the Turcomans -- Hajji Baba evinces a feeling disposition the poet Asker -- Hajji Baba escapes from the Turcomans -- Hajji Baba in his distress becomes a water-carrier -- He makes a soliloquy and becomes a vendor of smoke -- History of Dervish Sefer and of two other dervishes -- Hajji finds that fraud does not remain unpunished -- He leaves meshed is cured and relates a story -- Of the man he meets and of the consequences -- Hajji reaches Tehran and goes to the poet's house -- He plans for the future and is involved in a quarrel -- With new clothes he appears in a new character -- The poet returns from captivity and the consequences -- Hajji gets into the service of the king's physician -- He succeeds in deceiving two of the faculty -- The manner in which Shah takes medicine -- Hajji Baba asks the Doctor for a salary -- He becomes dissatisfied and falls in love -- He has an interview with the fair Zeenab -- The lovers meet again and are happy -- The history of Zeenar the Curdish slave -- The chief physician receives the Shah as his guest -- Concerning hte present made the Shah of Persia -- An event destructive to Hajji Baba's happiness -- Hajji loses the fair object of his affections -- He is called upon to exert his skill as a doctor -- Hajji becomes an executioner -- He accompanies the Shah to his camp -- Hajji Baba gives a specimen of Persian despotism -- Fortune smiles upon Hajji and promotes him etc etc ; VG <br/> <br/> New York, Random House, 1937 hardcover