TITLE: The House of Wine [Madhushala]
AUTHOR: Harivanshrai Bachchan
PUBLISHER: The Fortune Press
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1950
BINDING: Brown cloth with fine dust jacket, price unclipped [7s 6d]
NO.OF PAGES: pp. 46 + 4 plates
SIZE:.br.Height: 19.6 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Depth: 0.7 cm

HARIVANSHRAI BACHCHAN [1907-2003]
RARE 1ST UK EDITION OF FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH BY THE ACTOR AMITABH BACHCHAN'S FATHER
Presentation copy to British poet Henry Treece [1911-1966]
.br. Translated into English verse by Marjorie Boulton and Ram Swaroop Vyas
With a foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru
Introduction by G. P. Johari
4 full-page illustrations by Norman Stannard

Signed presentation copy to British poet Henry Treece [1911-1966] from translator Marjorie Boulton.

The rare and only UK edition of Bachchan's verse, inspired by Omar Khayyam. The original Hindi version was published in 1935. Bachchan was a prolific poet and writer and among the early proponents of the New Poetry movement in Hindi.