SELECTIONS FROM THE SACRED WRITINGS OF THE SIKHS

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1960, believe 1^st ed., former university library book.  Hard cover, 288 pages including Glossary and Index.  Good; black cloth with gilt lettering on spine; library numbers in white.  Some edge, corner and spine end wear; some marks on boards.  No jacket.  University library label, notations and stamps on front paste-down, embossment on title page and one other interior page; pocket and date sheet at rear.  Binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages; one page has a bit of off-setting due to paper laid in.  Translated by Dr. Trilochan Singh, Ghai Jodh Singh, Kapur Singh, Bawa Harkishen Singh, Khushwant Sing; Revised by George S. Fraser; Introduction by S. Radhakrishnan; Foreword by Arnold Toynbee.  ‘This translation is the first that has made the Adi Granth accessible, in more than short extracts, to the English-speaking public. … The Adi Granth is remarkable for several reasons.  Of all known religious scriptures, this book is the most highly venerated.  It means more to Sikhs than even the Qur’an means to Muslims, the Bible to Christians, and the Torah to Jews.  The Adi Granth is the Sikhs’ perpetual guru (spiritual guide).  It was formally invested with this function by the last in the series of the human gurus that began with the founder of the Sikh religion, Nanak.’ (from Foreword)