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Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Color Illustrations; This book is in Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and wear, along with paper loss, mostly to the corners and edges. The front cover has splotches of rubbing as well. The front paper label is in clean, bright condition. The spine paper label has edge wear, and several spots of rubbing and chipping. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is one spot of discoloration to the bottom edge of the half title page. All text pages have decorated edges. Illustrated with 23 tipped in plates with captioned tissue guards. "The first known reference to the Nights is a 9th-century fragment. It is next mentioned in 947 by al-Mas? Udi in a discussion of legendary stories from Iran, India, and Greece, as the Persian Hazar afsana, "A Thousand Tales, " "called by the people A Thousand Nights. " In 987 Ibn al-Nadim adds that Abu Abdus al-Jahshiyari began a collection of 1,000 popular Arabic, Iranian, Greek, and other tales but died (942) when only 480 were written. It is clear that the expressions "A Thousand Tales" and "A Thousand and One " were intended merely to indicate a large number and were taken literally only later, when stories were added to make up the number." "Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 May 25, 1953) 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 at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. "
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$496.08 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto; no date [1914], First Dulac illustrated edition; trade issue. Publisher's brown cloth, extensively decorated in green and gilt to spine and upper, including gilt titles in faux-Arabic script, good condition with some wear at spine ends; excellent decorated end papers on both sides; Toning to edges, with some light spotting to first and final leaves. inside excellent , pp.[2] 222 [2]. With 23 colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each mounted with captioned tissue guards.a beautiful copy of this remarkable book.
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, trade issue. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] 222 [2]. With 23 stunning colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each mounted with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's brown cloth, extensively decorated in green and gilt to spine and upper, including gilt titles in faux-Arabic script. Brown endpapers with blue floral design. Faint traces of an ink ownership to half-title. Toning to edges, with some light spotting to first and final leaves. Gentle repairs to rear hinge, and some minor insect or damp damage to lower corner of rear fly-leaf. Light rubbing to boards, with some professional repairs to joints, head, and tail of spine. Very good. Dulac's colour plate illustrations capture perfectly the exotic narratives of the folk hero known as Sinbad the Sailor. Each page is beautifully ornamented with floral and geometric panelling. Truly a delightful and absorbing work.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in blue and gilt, tan and blue decorated end-papers. Minimal foxing to half-title otherwise a near fine copy. Twenty-three color plates mounted on cream stock with decorative border, captioned tissue guards. "In some of the pictures for this book Dulac continues with the Chinese style developed for Princess Badoura the year before. In others, he reduces the scale and adds a richness of detail to create an effect similar to that seen in Persian and Indian miniature art. The pictures are generally serious but Dulac's ever-present humor creeps in" (Hughey). Hughey 35a.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Dulac, Edmund (illustrator). Sinbad the Sailor. Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
Price: US$4040.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 222pp. n.d. (1914) Signed limited edition. Signed 'Edmund Dulac' and numbered 64 of 500. A beautiful copy. 23 colour plates including frontispiece plate - all tissue guarded - with titles to tissues. Gilt embossed front board and spine. Upper edge gilt - other fore-edges uncut. Both ties detached but present. Light bump to one corner of front board. A couple of light soil marks to front board. Horizontal crease mark running parallel to the spine - 1.5cm from the head of the spine - probably a bump. Some foxing - mostly light to extreme margins of some leaves - the most prominent ones. A very well preserved copy of a beautiful and scarce book.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Dulac, Edmund. Sinbad the Sailor. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Edmund Dulac. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL Vellum Cloth from the publisher. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The boards have minor discoloration and light wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A sharp copy SIGNED by Dulac. We buy SIGNED Dulac First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.