Knopf, 1972 cover
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This collection of love letters between Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, with her private journal, was edited and arranged by Virginia Hilu. Knopf published it in New York in 1972, and the British edition appeared the same year from Barrie & Jenkins, London, as a hardback of 450 pages, ISBN 0 214 65425 7. Quartet issued a UK paperback in 1973 (ISBN 0 7043 1053 8). Copies with the Knopf imprint and ISBN 0 394 43298 3 are the American edition.
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Barrie & Jenkins, London, in 1972, in hardback.
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