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Price: US$56.46 + shipping
Description: Reprint. Sm. 4to. 320pp. Tipped in colour frontis., vignette title page, 19 tipped in colour plates, many other ills. and decorations. Light marginal browning, e.ps. lightly browned, original gilt lettered terracotta cloth with gilt illus. and black ruling to upper board, lightly soiled and rubbed, corners sl. bumped, sm. nick to upper joint, spine darkened and sl. bumped at head and tail. US$56
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. [ca. 1923]. Undated. Bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, with double ruled borders to the front board in black with image stamped in gilt to lower right corner. 20 colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Spine a bit sunned, cloth with light wear around the edges, a couple of light bumps and light wear to board corners. Endpapers foxed, ink gift inscription to flyleaf, with a split starting at the half-title, contents are clean and the binding is tight otherwise.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Laurence Housman. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Hodder and Stoughton Limited, Nottingham, 1923.
Price: US$205.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A delightful Boots edition retelling the tales of Arabian Nights, illustrated with colour plates by Dulac and presented in lovely decorative cloth. Containing such well-known tales as Ali Baba and the forty thieves, the story of the wicket half-brothers, the story of the magic horse, the fisherman and the genie, Sinbad the sailor, and Aladdin and the wonderful lamp, among others.Retold by Laurence Housman.With twenty gorgeous tipped-in illustrations in colour by Edmund Dulac; collated, complete.Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.With a gift inscription to Lilly dated Christmas 1931 In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; a little bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and cloth is a touch worn. Gift inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, binding remains generally tight, with the occasional slight strain; this is noticeable at page 8 in particular. Pages are just a touch age-toned to the edges. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$218.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Boots edition of the tales of Arabian Nights retold by Laurence Housman, illustrated with lovely colour plates by Edmund Dulac. The Boots edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and nineteen further plates in colour, all by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953). Collated, complete. Dulac was a notable illustrator, who also designed the postage stamps that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. This wonderfully illustrated edition of 'Stories from the Arabian Nights', also known as 'One Thousand and One Nights', contains a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales. These tales were first compiled in the Islamic Golden Age, and gained popularity in the western world. They tell the story of a vizier's daughter who weaves dramatic tales for a Sasanian king so that he won't have her executed. The tales that she recounts include 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', 'Sinbad the Sailor', and 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp'. Laurence Housman (1865-1959) was an English playwright and illustrator during the Victorian era. He gained significant literary success from works such as 'An Englishwoman's Love-Letters' and 'Victoria Regina'. Housman also contributed to the Suffrage movement in England by creating banners and propaganda through the 'Suffrage Atelier', which he founded, and writing in women's newspapers. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, fairly smart, with some marks to the boards and light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting to the first and last couple of pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Boots 'Cheap' Trade Edition [1923] Containing Twenty Mounted Color Plates from Three of Dulac's Best Books A Fine Copy in the Original Dust Jacket [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. HOUSMAN, Laurence. Stories From the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Houseman. With Drawing by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [ca. 1923]. Cheaper trade edition. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in; 247 x 191 mm). 319, [1] pp. Twenty color plates, including frontispiece mounted on cream paper with captions printed below. Publisher's brandy colored cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt and black with four thin black lines forming border at outer edge of front cover, spine lettered in gilt with Boots symbol in gilt at bottom, plain cream end-papers. Neat ink inscription on front free end-paper. In the original tan dust jacket with an illustration from the book pasted onto the front panel. A very fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An interesting early 'compilation' edition containing twenty Dulac color plates including fourteen from The Arabian Nights, two from Princess Badoura, and four from Sindbad the Sailor. Hughey 16y.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early reprint edition. 4to.(10 x 7.9 inches). Twenty full colour tipped in plates by Dulac. Finely bound recent half dark brown morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind and gilt, plus gilt lettering and centre decorations. Marbled paper on boards. A clean and attractively bound copy.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom