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    By J. H. Hunt
    London   Adlard & Son
    11.5" by 9" 2-23pp
    The first edition in book form of this survey of the fakirs of India, illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs of these 'religious ascetics'.
    By J. H. Hunt

    1934 Indian 'Fakirs', A paper read before the Osler Club on May 11th, 1934

    London   Adlard & Son
    11.5" by 9" 2-23pp
    The first edition in book form of this survey of the fakirs of India, illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs of these 'religious ascetics'.
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

    The scarce edition in book form of J. H. Hunt's study of the fakirs of India, a group of Muslim Sufi holy men or women who survive on only what they can acquire through begging. Most fakirs follow the Islamic faith, or its more mystical practice, Sufism, though there are also fakirs in Hinduism.

    Hunt initially read the paper to London's Osler Club on May 11th 1934, before it appeared in the 'St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal' in  October, November and December 1934.

    Illustrated throughout with photographs of Indian fakirs, many depicting practices of self injury.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Areas of discolouration to front board, with light rubbing to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd light handling mark.

    Very Good

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