B77.4 THE SUFI MYSTERY [1980]

THE SUFI MYSTERY | EDITED BY NATHANIEL ARCHER | THE OCTAGON PRESS | LONDON

Collation: 112 leaves.

p. [1] THE SUFI MYSTERY; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] edition, copyright, rights reservation, permissions, ISBN, publisher’s and printer’s notices; pp. [5]-[6] CONTENTS; pp. 7-218 text; pp. [219]-[220] blank; pp. [221]-[224] publisher’s advertisements.

21.5 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 1.5/2.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in brown simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine, facing back:] The Sufi Mystery Edited by N. P. Archer | [upright:] [Sufi octagonal design]

Price: Unknown. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1980 in a white wove dust-jacket printed in yellow-orange and maroon.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘Tales of the Dervishes’ (pp. 14-15).

This is the first publication in English of Graves’s contribution. It was first published in Spanish in 1974 as an introduction to Idries Shah’s Cuentos de los Derviches. See B74.2.