Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 1939 printing. VG- condition, clean and tight copy, no dustjacket. [i-2]
Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Later printing date on title page 1945. Good with small scrap on front panel label. No prior owner markings or bookplate. Standard age-toning to paper. No dust jacket. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish with nine plates in color on coated paper stock.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Previous owner's name inside and gift inscription. There is heavy scribbling on the first blank page and title page. The first blank page has some tearing. Other than that the pages are unmarked. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: This is a terrible copy. Both covers are detached, spine is gone, damp stains in lower corner more or less throughout. Affects the most of the guarded illustrations although not violently. It does have the original 12 illustrations and I have elected to list it rather then disposing. Title and copyright pages both state 1909, as does the foreword but it does not have the Published 1909 statement. Sold with all faults, 338 pp.
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$64.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The former owner's name is written on the endpapers and cover page; there is some water damage; the spine is in good condition, but there is some bumping on the front cover. Clean pages. 339 p. NOT ex-library. Shelf: W. Maxfield Parrish illustrated it, and it includes a preface and ten stories. The list of colorful illustrations, done on shiny paper, is followed by a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson before the first story.
Seller: Friends of the Library Bookstore, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$66.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "THE ARABIAN NIGHTS THEIR BEST - KNOWN TALES EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA A. SMITH ILLUSTRATED BY MAXFIELD PARRISH". 12 Color plates, Title page, and end-papers, and front cover paste-down illustrated by Parrish. Black cloth, TEG (Gilt), page edges and bottom uncut. Minor cover edge wear and tiny chip to spine top. Rubbing to covers from handling over the years else book is clean complete, and tight. Gutters/binding strong with no splits.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 339 Pp. Black Cloth, Paste-On Cover Illustration, Spine Lettered In Gilt. Gilt Top Edge, Illustrated Endpapers. Illustration On Cover ( Different Than The Twelve Plates Inside). The Very Scarce First Printing Of This Classic Edition Of The Arabian Nights, Edited By Children's Book Authors Kate Douglas Smith And Nora Archibald Smith, With The Full Suite Of 12 Brilliant Full-Page Color Plates By Maxfield Parish, With Lettered Tissue Guards ( Later Editions In The 1920'S Being Reduced To Nine Plates, And Still Later By The 1940'S Being Reduced To Six Color Plates, And, As Is Usual With Illustrated Books, The Quality Of Plates In Later Printings Diminishes Considerably.) Gilt Brilliant But Wear And Fading To Cloth, Tiny Frays At Corners. Faint Tide-Line To Lower Outside Corner Of All Leaves But Plates And Tissue Guards Without Any Traces Of Dampstaining Or Foxing, Plates Brilliantly Colored, Clean.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO30064512: 1909. In-8. Cartonné. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 339 pages. Ouvrage en anglais. Quelques planches illustrées en couleurs avec serpente. Tranche en-tête dorée. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Vintage collection of 10 of the most beloved tales from the original "1001 Nights" told by Scheherezade.Orig. published in 1909, this is a later printing from 1936, in 339 pages, with a Preface by Editor Kate Douglas Wiggin (herself a famous illustrator), & 12 marvelous Full-Color, Full-Page glossy illustrations by Maxfield Parrish throughout the text. ALL plates are present & all but one (p. 306, Sindbad's third voyage) are virtually flawless: clear & richly hued with white margins. The Sindbad plate stuck to the opposite page, & has some paper residue adhering. With black cloth over boards, lettered in gilt to spine, & a Parrish paper pastedown to front board, this hardcover small 4to book is in Near Fine condition! Exceptionally clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy white with a whisper of tanning, else unmarked. Very mild rubbing to spine tips & all corners, with very slight fraying to bottom outer corner of front board. A few slightly rubbed spots to rear board. A beauty! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have here! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gift inscription on the second front free endpaper. Gutters starting, as is typical, but tight binding, nevertheless. Spine lettering clear. , but slightly faded. Some edgewear to the corners and top and bottom of spine - see image. ; First Edition copy with sharp full-color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish - all with noted tissue guards. Top-edge gilt, slightly dusty. Scarce copy in this First Edition at this price. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 339 pages
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition with Maxfield Parrish illustrations, super octavo, black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine and full color pastedown on front cover, gilded top edge and deckled other edges. Collection of 12 Middle Eastern folk tales with 12 color plates by Parrish. Very good, light shelf wear and wear to pastedown.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Arabian Nights - Their Best-Known Tales. Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Printed in New York City by Charles Scribners Sons. 1909, 339 pp, 9.5 x 7.25, 8vo, hardcover cloth binding. In good condition, with minor rubbing and wear to boards and cover illustration. Hinges remain in good condition and text block is bound well. No dust jacket. Light marginalia at front. Includes occasional full-page color illustrations by Parrish throughout. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce 1st Scribners printing and edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and her sister, Nora Smith. Includes illustrations by influential American artist Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966).
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1909 printing. First printing of the 1909 Scribner's edition with Parrish illustrations. Same date title and copyright page and statement "Published October, 1909." Foreword dated August 1909. Black cloth book with color pastedown to cover; some fraying to caps (mostly bottom) and mild wear to pastedown. Top edge gilt. Binding sound. No foxing, no finger smudges--textblock is clean and pages do not show handling creases. All twelve color plates present complete with tissue guards, color on the plates bright. There is a stamp to on the free front endpaper stating "No longer the property of / Seattle Public Library." No other writing, marks, etc. noted. There is an occasional margin tear and some pages seem to have been cut open rather roughly. For the most part this is minor, but on two pages, 209-210 and 211-212, a good bit of the top corner has been torn away and it does slightly affect the text--six words total (or parts of them). Otherwise tight, clean, bright pages. Please see photos.
Seller: Barbara Mader - Children's Books, University Place, WA, U.S.A.