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Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 50 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, 9.5 x 7", gilt-dec cloth, 133pp + illustrations, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, frontis and half-title detached (but present), pp toned and used with scattered finger soiling, textblock cracking, but illustrations appear to be nice and bright.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo. Brick colored cloth with cover text in Arabic motif. Binding complete and together but with front cover and spine separated from text block, rear cover holding binding to text block. Front flyleaf missing, half title page and guarded frontispiece still attached to front cover, title page with foxing and separated from text block. V to XII holding by threads, XIII to XVI separated from text block. An ink stain on front cover has migrated to lower inside corner of bottom of text block from page 1 through 65. All 50 Dulac illustrations are bound in at the back of the book. All mounted to heavy stock and have captioned tissue guards. All in excellent condition. The Illustrations page list page numbers even though these are all in back. The book is complete and is worthy of a restoration. 133 pages of text followed by 50 colored plates. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Laurence Housman. Stories From The Arabian Nights. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardbound, no dust jacket. 1st edition thus with Edmund Dulac illustrations. Complete with all 50 color tipped illustrations. Cracked at front inner hinge with end paper & first few pages preceding title page laid in, otherwise good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Housman, Laurence. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: English sheets. Sm 4to, brown cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, 50 color plates tipped in on cartridge paper with captions on tissue guards. Covers worn and lettering completely rubbed from spine, front end-papers split but hinge sound, internally tight and clean, text on heavy paper age-toned. Dulac's brilliant illustrations have made this book rank as his most important.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Housman Laurence. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 133 pages/Preface/Contents/Illustrations/All illustrations(50) accounted for. A romantic inscription is on the flyleaf page.
Seller: Empire Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Red cloth over boards. Handsome gold decorative stamping on front cover and spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1907. 133 pages, with 50 color plates. In good condition. Covers have some light fading, a bit of speckled marking on back cover, but overall are quite clean. Creasing to cloth on spine, a bit of shelf-wear at head and foot. Stamping remains bright and clean. Front gutter is cracked through, and front cover feels a bit shaken from binding -- otherwise binding is secure, no loose pages and back cover firmly attached. Includes color frontispiece of Scheharazade. Pages are free of marks or tears throughout. Color plates are clean and bright. A well preserved book with beautiful illustrations, in good condition overall.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Description: A Hard Backed copy with No Dust Jacket in Very Good condition. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Decorated with Middle Eastern Motif's in gilt and blue to both front and spine. Boards slightly rubbed. There are fifty (50) fine coloured drawings by Edmund Dulac, partly pasted on grey card and all protected by captioned tissue guards. Not Inscribed, but having a private library stamp to inside front boards. The frontispiece has become loose.
Seller: Rhos Point Books, Conwy, United Kingdom
Price: US$654.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the title-page imprint added for America but with the same sheets that were printed in England by Butler and Tanner and used for the first English issue. With 50 fine tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. The plates tipped to heavy green-gray stock, each with a captioned tissue-guard. 4to, original rust-colored cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper cover in Arabian motif. 133 pp. text + 50 tipped in plates on heavy mounting paper. A good and honest copy, the plates are all pristine and very fine, though a few of the mounting pages have a small bump at the edge, the text is quite clean, the text-block is solid though slightly shaken, the binding is still quite attractive though with a bit of age and some light edge wear on occasion, still handsome and well preserved and a very decent copy of this fine book, beautifully illustrated. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND DULAC. Here we find a collection of stories from the ARABIAN NIGHTS superbly illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The original Persian fairy tales of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "The Fisherman and the Genie," and several others are colorfully rendered on tipped-in plates. Dulacs affinity for oriental design becomes apparent in these exquisite, almost jewel-like images. We find the profound influence of oriental art and especially Persian miniatures in this group of exotic paintings. Intricate colors and patterns are juxtaposed to create lyrical scenes and bring the characters such as Morgiana and the Queen of the Ebony Isles to life on the page. The artist achieved intense effects in shading and atmosphere in his nocturne scenes such as "The Lady Advanced to Meet Him." As we turn the pages, we feel drawn into a mysterious world of exotic moods and clandestine encounters. "The Arabian Nights gave Dulac an opportunity to indulge in his nocturnes; the the softness of the gleam of moonlight on stone, or on shadowy figures, and his use of ultramarine, indigo and Prussian blue, mingled with purples and violets, brought to the illustrations the calm and mystery of Eastern nights."-Colin White "Leicester Galleries displayed the Dulac watercolors for THE ARABIAN NIGHTS in the autumn of 1907, at the same time the book was (originally) released. With unanimous praise the book was received by the critics and every picture sold even before the exhibition was opened to the general public. In light of this overwhelming success, Leicester Galleries promptly signed a contract with Dulac for one book a year, the subject to be chosen jointly between them and in consultation with Hodder & Stoughton."-Susan Meyer. The modern reader can only be grateful that such an arrangement was made, as we shall always have the body of extraordinary illustrations that ensued.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.