1959, VERY RARE, ALBANIA, ARSHI PIPA, Libri i Burgut, The Prison Book, First Edition

Arshi Pipa (1920 – 1997) was an Albanian and American writer, philosopher, poet and literary critic. The first poetry Pipa composed in late 1930, Lundërtarë [Seamen], was published in Tirana in 1944. When he was in prison he thought out and actually wrote some parts of his best-known collection of poems, Libri i Burgut [The Prison Book], published in 1959. His epic poem Rusha (1968), composed in 1955 during his imprisonment, describes love between Albanians and Serbs in the late 14th century.