B61 THE SUFIS 1964

[flush left:] THE | [flush right:] SUFIS | Idries Shah | [flush left:] Introduction by | [flush right:] Robert Graves | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 1964

Collation: [1]l22-912 [10] -118]12, 216 leaves.

p.[i] [flush left:] THE [flush right:] SUFIS; p.[ii] example of ‘Sufi illustrative calligraphy’; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] LC card, copyright, rights reservation, printing and edition notices; pp.[v]–vi CONTENTS; p.[vii] THE SITUATION; p.[viii] blank; pp.[ix]x-xxii INTRODUCTION; pp.[xxiii]xxiv–xxvi AUTHOR’S PREFACE; pp.[1] 2-365 text, with pp. [11, 34, 56, 98, 104, 115, 137, 147, 164, 172, 182, 192, 206, 217, 225, 228, 235, 249, 261, 286, 308, 317, 326, 345, 356] being unnumbered; pp.[366] 367-400 ANNOTATIONS; pp.[401]402-403[404] appendixes; pp.[405]-[406] blank.

20.8 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 3.1/3.7 cm. White wove paper; top and bottom edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in grey cloth; back blank; front blind-stamped with calligraphic emblem; spine stamped THE | SUFIS | Idries | Shah | DOUBLEDAY

Price: $5.95. Number of copies: 4,000 (in two printings). Published 17 January 1964 in white dust-jacket printed in black, yellow, and magenta. The dust-jacket design is by Carl Smith.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the introduction (pp.[ix]x–xxii).

There were English hardcover and paperback issues of this edition, the former by W.H. Allen and the latter by Cape. In the case of the hardback, both book and dust-jacket were manufactured in the United States. The paperback appears to have used the plates of the American edition.

The dust-jacket design is by Carl Smith.