Abdullah, Achmed. LUTE AND SCIMITAR: BEING POEMS AND BALLADS OF CENTRAL ASIA TRANSLATED OUT OF THE AFGHAN, THE PERSIAN, THE TURKOMAN, THE TARANTCHI, THE BOKHARAN, THE BALOCJI, AND THE TARTAR TONGUES TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL ANNOTATIONS... And with a Preface by Hervey Allen. New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1928. Large octavo, cloth-backed boards, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Abdullah dated 1932 on front free endpaper. Abdullah's most important literary work. Touch of fading to purple boards along top and bottom edges, several corner tips just a trifle soft, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket with some light fading and soiling, shallow chipping at head and tail of spine panel, and some light wear along top and bottom edges. (#65628)