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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Retold by Laurence Housman. 113 [1] pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with ten tipped-in color plates, each with printed tissue overleaf. Small folio, publisher's gilt-decorated white cloth; top edge stained green. First trade edition Some light foxing to a few of the tissue overleaves; small abrasion and erasure to the front free endpaper; rear pastedown a little foxed; tipped-in plates fine. The cloth is tanned at the spine and there is some splattered ink on parts of the lower right quadrant of the front cover, and dust-soiling to the rear cover.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$229.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated cream green & Gilt cover
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$249.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [1913]; crown 4to (25 x 19 cms); vi & 113 pages; with 10 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, each mounted on thick cream paper, and with a protective paper guard which also contains the caption to the illustration; hardback: original white cloth, with decoration in page green and gold to front cover and spine, lettering in gold, top edges stained green, bottom edges untrimmed, green endpapers with corner decoration; slight bubbling of cloth to lower cover, very slight bump to top corner of front cover, spine and page edges very slightly darkened, and a few very minor marks to covers; internally, there is an inscription on front endpaper, front free endpaper a litle browned, and a few spost of foxing to this endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. No wear to spine ends, all joints are sound. A very nice copy.
Seller: Andrew Johnson Books, Shipston-on-Stour, United Kingdom
Housman, Laurence. PRINCESS BADOURA. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$322.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1913. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green endpapers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly coloured plates. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine browned, bumped and worn with small nicks to cloth at either end. Corners worn. Covers grubby and marked. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown. A couple of hinges cracked but binding still firm. A little foxing and browning. Fingering to contents but generally clean. All plates present and in very good condition. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto; G+/no-DJ; tanned spine, gilt text; ornately illustrated cover has age toning, rubbing, bumping and fraying in corners and at spine head and tail, comes in protective plastic cover; textblock has edgewear, ex libris plates on front pastedown and endpaper, all text and plates clean; pp 113; FLP Collection. 1284947. Full-priced Rockville.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Housman, Laurence. PRINCESS BADOURA. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$395.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1913. Very good condition with no wrapper. White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green endpapers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly coloured plates. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine is browned. A little bumping to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some light page finger markings. All plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$672.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - No Date [1913], cream pictorial cloth with gilt decorations and titles, plates complete with descriptive guards, some spotting, Please see photos as part of condition report 1913 1st Edition (Thus) , PRINCESS BADOURA, A TALE FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS By Laurence Housman Laurence Housman (18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing. Illustrated By: Edmund Dulac Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; 22 October 1882 – 25 May 1953) was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. He then became a regular contributor to The Pall Mall Magazine, and joined the London Sketch Club, which introduced him to the foremost book and magazine illustrators of the day. Through these he began an association with the Leicester Galleries and Hodder & Stoughton; the gallery commissioned illustrations from Dulac which they sold in an annual exhibition, while publishing rights to the paintings were taken up by Hodder & Stoughton for reproduction in illustrated gift books, publishing one book a year. Books produced under this arrangement by Dulac include Stories from The Arabian Nights (1907) with 50 colour images; an edition of William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1908) with 40 colour illustrations; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909) with 20 colour images; The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910); Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (1911); The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1912) with 28 colour images and many monotone illustrations; and Princess Badoura (1913). Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Hodder & Stoughton, London quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages 113 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0002354 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$704.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A wonderfully-illustrated tale from the Arabian Nights, retold by the notable English playwright, writer and illustrator Laurence Housman. Illustrated throughout with ten beautiful tipped-in coloured plates by Edmund Dulac. Dulac was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Housman also wrote children's fairy tales such as 'A Farm in Fairyland' (1894) and fantasy stories with Christian undertones for adults, such as 'All-Fellows' (1896), 'The Cloak of Friendship' (1905), and 'Gods and Their Makers' (1897). In a decorative cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally, smart, with slight bumping and marks. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places. Pages are bright, though with some scattered spotting. Bookplate of Charles Ballantyne to front pastedown. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1913 1ed Princess Badoura Arabian Nights Dulac ART Illustrated Aladdin Housman 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. This charming printing of Princess Badoura is a famous story from Arabian Nights. Princess Badoura is famous for marrying Aladdin. This edition was translated and edited by Laurence Housman alongside impressive, full-page color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Item number: #15690 Price: $750 HOUSMAN, Laurence Princess Badoura. A tale from the Arabian Nights retold by Laurence Housman London : Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages [6], 113, [1] 10 plates Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure Size: ~10.25in X 7.75in (26cm x 19.5cm) 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! 15690 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1913 EXQUISITE 1ed Princess Badoura Arabian Nights Dulac ART Aladdin Housman 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. This charming printing of Princess Badoura is a famous story from Arabian Nights. Princess Badoura is famous for marrying Aladdin. This edition was translated and edited by Laurence Housman alongside 10 impressive, full-page color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Item number: #18759 Price: $750 HOUSMAN, Laurence Princess Badoura. A tale from the Arabian Nights retold by Laurence Housman London : Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o [8], 113, [1] o 10 color plates Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure o Decorative cloth Size: ~10.25in X 7.75in (26cm x 19.5cm) 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! 18759 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$754.82 + shipping
Description: PRINCESS BADOURA A TALE FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition thus, (1913), slight hint of scattered foxing to the fore edge, else a bright fine copy in the publishers original gold-gilt and lime green pictorial stamped off-white cloth with 10 tipped in full color, full page plates by Edmund Dulac in the somewhat worn glassine dust-wrapper. Housed in the publishers original box with full color pictorial lid with some tape repairs to the corners.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$855.08 + shipping
Description: 29 x 23,5 cm. (8), 113, (2) pages, with 10 tipped-in color plates, book decoration and original gilt picture buckram after Edmund Dulac. Spine slight sunned, a good copy. With the bookplate of Cecil E. Byas on upper pastedown. Prinzessin Badura. Eine Geschichte aus 1001 Nacht, neu erzählt von Laurence Housman, illustriert von Edmund Dulac. [kein Ort] Gedruckt bei der Edinburgh University Press von T. und A. Constable für Hodder und Stoughton. [nicht datiert, 1913]. 29 x 23,5 cm. (8), 113, (2) Seiten, mit 10 montierten Farbtafeln, Buchschmuck und original vergoldetem Bildrahmen nach Edmund Dulac. Nummer 33 von 750 Exemplaren, von Dulac signiert. Rücken leicht gebräunt, unterer Schnitt leicht bestossen, gutes Exemplar. Mit dem Exlibris von Cecil E. Byas auf dem vorderen Innendeckel. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Stader Kunst-Buch-Kabinett ILAB, Stade, Germany
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 750 numbered copies signed by Dulac. [8] 113 [3]pp. With 10 tipped-in color plates. Bound in decorative cloth. Unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1248.84 + shipping
Description: [Illustrated Folk Tales] FIRST DULAC EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[8] 113 [3]. With 10 mounted colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's white cloth with elaborate pale blue and gilt decoration to upper and spine, decorated framed margins to text block, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed notice for Dulac watercolour exhibition tucked in (Leicester Square Galleries, London, Nov.15th-24th Dec. 1913). Contents very clean, loose flyer a little spotted, binding tight and square, spine gently toned. A crisp, near fine copy. A special presentation of a single story from the vast 'Thousand Nights and a Night' corpus of Middle Eastern folk tales. Copy number 429 of 750, signed by Edmund Dulac.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 346 of 750 copies signed by the artist. A review in The Bookman stated that, "Scherazade's romance of Badoura, the beautiful Princess of China. supplies Edmund Dulac with a subject exactly suited to his gracious, exquisitely delicate art". The Athenaeum found in the tale "a rootlet of later Persian feminism". Hughey notes that Dulac "altered his style" for this book in order "to follow that of Chinese painting. The result is a very new, but mature style, most subtle in both design and colours. None of his work before or after was quite like it". A review in The Outlook stated "nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush than the picture of Badoura in the arms of Camaralzaman against a background so exquisite as to make one hold one's breath". Hughey 31. The Bookman, December 1913; The Outlook, 15 November 1913. Quarto. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and decorated with pictorial design blocked in gilt and green, pale green endpapers, top edge green. Colour frontispiece and nine coloured plates tipped in, with captioned tissue guards, all by Dulac. Extremities a little bumped, spine soiled, some slight browning; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: "So Exquisite as to Make One Hold One's Breath" [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. [ARABIAN NIGHTS]. Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., 1913]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies signed by Edmund Dulac (this being No. 252). Large quarto (11 3/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 287 x 226 mm.). [viii], 113, [1, printer's imprint], [2, blank] pp. Ten mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with tissue guards printed at top with the design from the title-page and descriptive letterpress in light olive ink. Title within fanciful line border and with design of two winged figures holding high an urn of flowers in light olive ink. Text within similar line border in light olive ink. Publisher's cream buckram pictorially stamped in pale green and gilt (with design from title-page embellished by two peacocks and additional lines) and lettered in gilt on front cover and decoratively stamped in pale green and gilt and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened, otherwise a near fine copy. With the original Leicester Galleries 1913 exhibition advertisement sheet laid in. Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights is a 1913 short story written by Laurence Housman and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Based on a tale from "One Thousand and One Nights", this beautifully-illustrated story is highly recommend for lovers of folklore and collectors of classic fairy tales. Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953) was a French-born British illustrator and stamp designer. He was born in Toulouse and studied law there, but later, realising that his true passion was illustration, studied art the École des Beaux-Arts. Having moved to London in the early 20th century, Dulac received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters in 1905. During the First World War, he illustrated relief books; and after the war, when children's books were in low demand, he began illustrating magazines. Other notable works containing Dulac's illustrations include: "The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales" (1910), "Stories from Hans Christian Andersen" (1911), and "The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe" (1912). Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage classic illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old. "Nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush than the picture of Badoura in the arms of Camaralzaman against a background so exquisite as to make one hold one's breath" (from the review in The Outlook, November 15, 1913, Supplement XIII, quoted in Hughey). Hughey 31.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2241.51 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 116 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Dulac's work rivalled Rackham's in popularity and was largely confined to deluxe editions. "Nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush than the picture of Badoura in the arms of Camaralzaman against a background so exquisite as to make one hold one's breath" (review in The Outlook, 15 Nov. 1913). Quarto. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and decorated with pictorial design blocked in gilt and green, pale green endpapers, top edge green. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco solander box. Colour frontispiece and 9 colour plates tipped in and with captioned tissue guards, by Dulac. Cloth a little finger-marked, else very bright, a little faint browning to free endpapers. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom