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

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

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.

CONDITION:
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