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Price: US$122.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unpaginated. Gilt decorated green cloth with tipped on colour illustration to front board with elaborate gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing and slight wear to the joints, corners and spine ends and a few marks to rear board. Boards are minorly warped, with yellowing to the prelims, ink name to half-title, occasional spots. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 50 tipped-in and tissue-guarded plates bound in at rear, plates complete. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Rust-colored cloth stamped in gilt and navy blue. 50 color tipped in plates. Binding worn with some splits and corners turned, front hinge split but holding, light soiling, only a very good copy
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Forty-nine, of the fifty called for, tipped in color plates are present and in excellent condition. No statement of printing. Brief gift inscription (in pencil, from 1918) on front free endpaper, page edges throughout the text block are heavily darkened (except for the plate pages), else good in reddish brown, decorated cloth covered boards. No dust jacket.; 133 pages B000W6POEE
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$252.26 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136. With 49 colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, mounted on grey card and collected at rear, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth, titled and decorated in gilt and dark grey to spine and upper. A large black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf, not dated. Quite heavy spotting to title page and facing leaves, otherwise clean, gently toned text. Toning and some minor staining to edges. Cloth quite heavily rubbed and toned, showing various marks and bumps. Good. Featuring the following stories: The Fisherman and the Genie; The King of the Ebony Isles; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Magic Horse; The Wicked Half-Brothers; The Princess of Deryabar.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$263.50 + shipping
Description: Good copy bound in the original gilt decorated cloth. Boards stained with new endpapers. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the libraries of A. Crawford and W. McFal with their bookplate. Physical description; 133 pages ; colour plates. Subjects; Arabian Nights. Children's stories. Illustrations. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1907. Printed November 1907. With 50 wonderful illustrations by Edmud Dulac. 5 ribbed Red leather binding with gold decor. Binding worn at spine / front board, showing cardboard chip instead of leather (dog). Moderate general wear. 50 plates + 133 pages. 6099
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$277.26 + shipping
Description: Good copy bound in the original gilt decorated cloth. Boards stained with new endpapers. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the libraries of A. Crawford and W. McFal with their bookplate. Physical description; 133 pages ; colour plates. Subjects; Arabian Nights. Children's stories. Illustrations. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$355.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Trade Edition. Publishers Cloth Gilt. Complete With Fifty Colour Plates With Captioned Tissue Guards (Frontispiece and Forty Nine Plates Bound at Rear). A Very Good Book. Slight Soiling and A Few Marks to Boards. Slight Rubbing and Wear to Edges. Binding Firm and Intact. Plates Fine and Uncreased. Text Generally Clean and Fresh With Just Slight Spotting. No Inscriptions. PBFA Member. We Welcome Direct Contact With Our Customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books If You Require Any Further Information or Images.
Seller: Neil Ewart, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Housman, Laurence (retold by). Stories from The Arabian Nights. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1907.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange cloth with gilt and black decorations light rubbing to extremities, minor wrinkle to spine cloth. Front hinge cracked but tightly bound, mild foxing to endpapers. Page 122 "she and her companion arrived at the city of Harran" has torn tissue guard. With fifty tipped-in Edmund Dulac plates with tissue guards, a handsome second edition copy. ; MCF04433; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 132 pp
Seller: McCormick Books, Hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Housman, Laurence & Dulac, Edmund. STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Description: STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, Hodder & Stoughton (ca. 1907), first edition thus with these illustrations, some wear to corner tips and spine extremities, else a good to very good copy with all the gold-gilt lettering & pictorial illustration on both the spine and front covere in tact. All 50 magnificent full color tipped-in plates present with the page mount of plate 34 cropped. (The plate itself is of course undamaged).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
. Stories from The Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman.. London Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.
Price: US$453.59 + shipping
Description: Kl.4°, Front. u. 49 Farbtaf. von Edmund Dulac, XVI, 133 S., 1 Bl., Tafeln, 1 Bl., Olwd., Rvg., goldgepr. Titel u. Deckelvign. Rücken fachmännisch restauriert, Einband stellenw. berieb./bestoss., Buchblock stellenw. angeplatzt, min. fingerfl. + + + Achtung: Für unsere Kunden in Deutschland erfolgt der Versand in der Regel verzollt vierzehntäglich ab Deutschland. + Bankverbindung in Deutschland vorhanden. + Bitte fragen Sie uns an. Danke + + +
Seller: Antiquariat Viarius, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Price: US$471.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Encuadernacion original en tela marron y oro algo restaurada en bordes.
Seller: LIBRERIA CLIO, HUMANES DE MOHERNANDO, GUAD, Spain
HOUSMAN (Lawrence).. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1907.
Price: US$517.45 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Retold by Laurence Housman. with Drawings by Edmund Dulac. Frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted with captioned tissue guards. Second Trade Edition. 4to. [253 x 190 x 40 mm]. xvi, 133 pp. Bound in the publisher's original terracotta cloth, the front cover and spine blocked in gilt and black, plain endleaves and edges. [ebc8017]. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. A very good copy. First published in October 1907, this second edition is dated November 1907. There was also a limted signed edition of 350 copies.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$582.13 + 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
Laurence Housman. Stories From The Arabian Nights. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1907.
Price: US$582.13 + shipping
Description: A very smart, beautifully illustrated edition of these stories from the famous 'Arabian Nights'. Compiled and edited by Laurence Housman, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Collated, complete with fifty tipped in colour plates by noted French-born, English naturalised magazine illustrator and stamp designer. Dulac studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. All plates retain their tissue guards.Laurence Housman has retold the classic tales to this work, he was also a noted illustrator and writer during the Victorian era.The front hinge is starting in this copy, as is very common with this large work.With the plates bound to the rear, as called for.A very bright copy of these famous tales. Illustrated by an important figure during the Golden Age of illustration. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of spine as well as to the extremities. Front hinge is slightly strained but firm after tissue guard to frontispiece. Tissue guard is torn. Tape repair to the front hinge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Scattered spots to the fore-edge and to the endpapers. Otherwise, just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, 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.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 133p quarto, illustrated with 50 tipped in color plates. A fine copy bound in 3/4 brown calf and marbled boards. Tipped into the front fly leaf on Edmund Dulac's stationary "with compliments Edmund Dulac"
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
HOUSMAN (Laurence).. Stories from the Arabian Nights.. HODDER AND STOUGHTON PUBLISHER, London, 1907.
Price: US$1084.63 + shipping
Description: Retold by Laurence Housman. With drawings by Edmond DULAC. London, Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, 1907, demi-maroquin bleu pétrole à coins, dos estampé à trois nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin caramel, plats toilés bleu, tranches dorées, xvi pp. dont titre et frontispice, 134 pages de texte, 49 feuillets d'illustrations contrecollées en couleurs. Bien complet des 50 feuillets d'illustration. Contient six contes des Mille et Une Nuits. Les Mille et Une Nuits est un recueil de contes initiatiques, destinés à l'origine à l'éducation des souverains en Perse. Autour du récit-cadre qui reste stable (l'histoire de Shéhérazade) le texte est enrichi de nombreuses variantes depuis le VIIIe siècle. Il est traduit en anglais à la fin du XIXe, et très tôt illustré. Edmond DULAC (1882-1953) se forme aux Beaux-arts de Toulouse dirigés par Jean-Paul LAURENS ses débuts difficiles dans la peinture l'amènent à se tourner vers l'illustration et à partir pour l'Angleterre en 1905. Il obtient la nationalité britannique en 1912. Son travail sur les soeurs BRONTE lui vaut un contrat avec la Leicester Gallery de Londres qui lui commandent des illustrations pour Les Mille et Unes Nuits : les éditeurs Hodder & Stoughton lui font signer un contrat d'exclusivité. Stories of the Arabian Nights est la première collaboration de DULAC et HODDER & STOUGHTON, qui a lancé sa carrière. La reliure d'époque présente un dos un peu insolé et une petite tache claire sur la couverture. Livres
Seller: Librairie Chretien, PARIS, France
Housman, Laurence & Edmund Dulac. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Hodder & Stoughton, E-007, 1907.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 4to. Hodder and Stoughton, London. No Date. (1907). Xvi + 133, illustrated with frontispiece and 49 tipped-in coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards. Bound in decorated red cloth boards with gilt and green titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards have some light shelfwear present. Light offsetting present to the title page. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This fantastic volume contains English-language retellings of stories from "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. E-007; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 133 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Laurence Housman. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1907.
Price: US$1228.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1907 First edition, first issue. With 50 fine tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac each with a captioned tissue-guard. Original rust-colored cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black/blue on the spine and upper cover in Arabian motif. 133 pp. Slight age related wear to the spine/edges. Inscription pinned in to front page ' Fred & Nellie with love from Alice'. Some foxing/discolouration. More pictures available on request.
Seller: Berry Books, Sudbury, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$1293.62 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with 50 colour plates. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136 plus plates. Publisher's original russet cloth pictorially stamped in blue and gilt. Original printed brown dust-wrapper with colour plate illustration laid down to upper. Contents clean, no names. Minor toning to edges. Fragile jacket with a few chips/edge tears, toned to extremities, larger chips to head of spine, browned to same. This is the version with the plates mounted on cream card and interspersed throughout the text; another exists with plated on grey card collected at the rear. Rare in jacket (no other copy of this issue at the time of writing).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to. [2], v-xvi, 1-133, [3] pp. Half later red morocco over the original orange cloth boards with gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the front board, spine in six compartments with gilt rules and lettering; all edges grey. Rebound without the half-title page. Title page printed in orange and black with an orange drawing. Illustrated with 50 mounted color plates (on grey paper) with printed tissue guards, plates done by the incomparable Edmund Dulac. All plates except for the frontispiece gathered at the end of the volume. Hughey 16a. Hughey refers to this book as Dulac's most important, and references a review that states "those fifty colour illustrations . will soon be the talk of the literary and artistic world". According to Hughey, The New York Times called this work "indescribably quaint and bewitching". A sharp copy of an Anglicanized version of the Arabian Nights, with the words on the page brought to life by Dulac's artistry. A touch foxed at the edges of the pageblock, six leaves with their bottom margin trimmed but no loss to the text or pagination.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the Large Paper Issue with the plates interspersed throughout the text. With the full complement of all 50 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. Large 4to, in the publishers original rust-colored cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in beautiful Arabian style in gilt and dark blue on the spine and upper cover. With the original dustjacket upper cover tipped inside. xvi, 133 pp. A beautiful copy, unusually well preserved and fine, the plates pristine and perfect, the text fresh, the cloth bright, a bit of breakage at the join of the free-fly and pastedown. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND DULAC. Here we find a collection of stories from the ARABIAN NIGHTS superbly illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Dulac's illustrations conjure the mysterious atmosphere of the oriental text and transport the reader to a lyrical world of grace and beauty. Dulacs affinity for oriental design becomes apparent in the exquisite, almost jewel-like images; there is 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 as in, Supposing Me Asleep and Aladdin in the Cave. Stark simplicity is felt in the interstices between graceful lines and brilliant colors as in The Lady Bedr-el-Budur and Princess Badoura. 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 mysterious 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 STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS is especially important in understanding Dulacs creative growth as it is believed that here, for the first time, he imposed an inner order and self-discipline. The success of the work was astonishing for its time and overshadowed other publication events for some time thereafter. "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. Dulac treated each picture with a seriousness that brought him great praise, showing that he, like any fine easel painter could accomplish great art, even for use in the book arts. The book sealed his reputation and set him permanently on the long course of success he would enjoy throughout his career. This lovely edition of STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, liltingly illustrated by Dulac, will be a cherished addition to any library.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Stories from The Arabian Nights", retold by Laurence Housman and ill. by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907 Large Paper issue edition, with 50 mounted colour illustrations (with captioned tissue-guards), original pictorial orange cloth gilt, dust jacket (lined to verso with thick brown paper), mounted colour illustration to upper panel, spine lightly toned. The Large Paper edition is a larger format than the regular 1907 Dulac edition, in very uncommon, especially with its original dustwrapper.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands