{"product_id":"to-2026-069","title":"Betel Nuts: What They Say in Hindustan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGUITERMAN, Arthur. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBetel Nuts: What They Say in Hindustan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSmall octavo. 48 pp., many pages unopened. Printed at Paul Elder's Tomoye Press, with a color frontispiece (tissue-guarded) after a painting by Will Jenkins and the text set within decorative borders. Tan paper boards with red spine and pale-orange lettering. The complete gift-presentation copy as issued: tied with a red silk ribbon and accompanied by Paul Elder's designed gift card \"Hindu Christmas Greetings,\" housed in the original color-patterned paper publisher's gift box. Orignial boards. Slight fading to the book spine and light wear to box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArthur Guiterman (1871–1943) — humorist and, in 1910, a co-founder of the Poetry Society of America — renders into light English verse a selection of proverbs and pithy sayings gathered from across Hindustan: Bengal, the Punjab, Rajputana, and the mountains of Kashmir and Afghanistan. A charming and well-preserved Tomoye Press production, complete with its original presentation elements — uncommon thus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-069\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guiterman, Arthur","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459952758945,"sku":"TO-2026-069","price":245.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-069_01.jpg?v=1784606340","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-069","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}