"Art is language of the entire human personality": First Editions of Each Volume in the Author's Acclaimed Cairo Trilogy; Each Volume Signed by Naguib Mahfouz
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street.
New York: Doubleday, 1990-1992. First American editions of author's most well known work; a trilogy originally published in Egypt in the 1950's and which garnered him the Nobel Prize in literature decades later in 1988. Octavo, 3 volumes. Original half cloth. Each volume is signed by Naguib Mahfouz. All three are fine in fine dust jackets. Books signed by Mahfouz are exceptionally rare as he left Egypt only twice during his life, each time only but for a short time.