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Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1898. No Edition Remarks. 424 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and designs. Ex Libris plate of Author Marie Louise Egerton Castle to front pastedown. Gilded text block edges. Black and white illustrated plates. Minor thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. Not particularly visible to text block edges or pastedowns, much heavier to free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew (ed.). The Arabian Nights Entertainments.. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1898.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: xvi, 424 [6, ads] pp. Illustrated throughout by Henry Justice Ford. 8vo, publisher's bright blue gilt decorated cloth; a.e.g. First US edition. Slightly over-opened at pp. 128-129 and 192-193; still, tight and sound. A bright nearly unworn copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
LANG, Andrew, ed. The Arabian Nights Entertainments. Longmans, New York, 1898.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with 66 black & white plates by Henry Justice Ford. 424 pages. Thick 12mo, original ornate gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth, all edges gilt. New York, London & Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. First edition thus. A few pages with minor staining at bottom margin, else a fine bright copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lang, Andrew (ed.). THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. Longmans, Green: London, 1898.
Price: US$454.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by H.J. Ford, 7.25 x 4.5", 424pp, aeg, recently bound in polished black leather, gilt lettering, one panel of original cloth gilt dec cover bound inside, marbled endpapers and minor foxing else in nice condition. FIRST LANG EDITION, WITH WONDEFUL FOREDGE PAINTING OF A SITTING FIGURE WATCHING ANOTHER BATTLING A GIGANTIC BIRD (some ink of painting bleeding into margins).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1898 1ed Arabian Nights Andrew Lang Fairy Tales Illustrated Ali Baba Aladdin A loss that can be repaired by money is not of such very great importance. The Arabian Nights During the Golden Age of Islam in South and West Asia, a collection of tales and stories was gathered and called One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. It was first translated into French by Antoine Galland in 1704-17 and helped establish a positive attitude toward Islam in the Western world. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. This charming printing of Arabian Nights features the famous stories, such as Ali Baba and Aladdin, edited by Andrew Lang. Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to the field of anthropology, who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. These are shortened versions of the tales of The Arabian Nights translated from Gal land, alongside numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Item number: #15368 Price: $599 LANG, Andrew The Arabian Nights Entertainments. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. London; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages xvi, 424, [6] 67 illustrations 34 full-page plates 33 in-text Language: English Binding: Leather; tight & secure Size: ~7.25in X 5in (18cm x 12.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 15368 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Arabian Nights Entertainments. London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Large Paper edition. Limited to 75 copies this being #74. Selected and edited by An drew Lang, 424pp. Frontispiece and 32 engraved plates plus smaller illustrations in the text, by H J Ford. Page edges untrimmed and a little browned. Bookplate on front endpaper. Original paper covered boards with cream spine. Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to the field of anthropology, who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. These are shortened versions of the tales of The Arabian Nights translated from Gal land; according to the introduction he omits pieces only suitable for Arabs and old gentlemen. Henry Justice Ford was a British illustrator best known for illustrating Langs books. Ships from U.A.E.
Seller: EQTNA, Leicester, United Kingdom