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Doughty, Charles Montagu. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Ltd. Editions Club, 1953.
Price: US$23.62 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Like New Inside and Outside. Clean and crisp pages w/no markings! You will be pleased. Excellent book! ( z1s214B ) Some very minor shelf wear on cover. ** Fast Shipping**
Seller: Cronus Books, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Description: pp. xxi, 453. Numerous red washed drawings by Edy Legrand, many full page. Map decorated title page and Frontis. Pictorial endpapers. All edges decorated brown. 4to. Original full decorated linen cloth binding. Spine slightly darkened. Original slip case. Hardbound. Nice copy. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W82 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #524 of 1500. VG. Light wear to boards. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 10.299999989494000 X 7.299999992554000 X 1.499999998470000 inches; 453 pages
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Xxi, 453 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Brown, Illustrated Endpapers. Reprint Of The Limited Editions Club Issue. Fine In Lightly Used Dust Jacket, Some Browning, In Slipcase With Some Wear And Browning.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Doughty, Charles Montagu. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Limited Editions Club,, 1953.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to hardcover volume in tan embossed boards with a flap cover. The flap spine does have some light toning. In near fine condition as some one made a thick acetate wrapper to fit the book. No foxing or marks. 117/1500 copies. Portfolio case also fine condition.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Doughty, Charles M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1953.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 4to, full cream cloth, lightly soiled, bound in Middle Eastern style,with the binding forming a closed case over the fore edge; illustrated in color throughout by Edy LeGrand. Small tear to top gutter of binding else very good.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
DOUGHTY, CHARLES M.. Travels In Arabia Deserta. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1953.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition Number 605/1500. Bound in lightly soiled cream colored cloth. Colotype illustrations by Edy Legrand and unsigned. From an edition of 1500 copies, this one being number 605. NF.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Quarto. Bound in tan linen with wallet like flap,illustrated covers, illustrated pastedowns and free end papers, map illustrated title paper and paper before, abridged and arranged by Edward Garnettm prefectory note by Mr. Garrett, introduction by T. E. Lawrence, number 559 of 1500 copies printed. Near fine, light foxing to spine.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
DOUGHTY, CHARLES M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1953.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Edy Legrand. Hardcover is slightly rubbed at the spine ends and corners, the spine is lightly browned, a portion of the back cover extends around to cover side foredge and front cover envelope-flap style with that side edge lightly browned, there is a cream colored cloth cover with brownish stamping on front and back covers and portion that extends around to front cover.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1953. A typical beautiful edition of Doughty's classic work from the Heritage Press, the "lower-cost cousin" of the Limited Editions Press. Natural linen cloth binding, with Islamic decorations, titling, and figure of an Arab and camel on the covers and spine. Decorations and titling are in maroon. A Fine copy of this First Edition Thus. Profusely illustrated throughout by Edy Legrand. Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Clean text; 453 pages, with Glossary; decorative endpapers. Present is a pristine copy of the "Sandglass," the newsletter that accompanied the publisher's issues. No dustjacke; present is the cardboard slipcase (one edge has split and has been repaired with linen tape). A worthy addition to anyone's library, and a great read. . First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edy Legrand. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$111.00 + shipping
Description: sm 4to [27 x 19 cm]; xxi, 455, [i] pp, colorfrontis map, numerous tinted plates & illustrations from drawings by Edy Legrand, pictorial endpapers, includes a copy of the LEC prospectus, four-pages, giving much interesting background, inserted loose. original pictorial cloth covers, natural linen stamped in brown, and Arabian-style enclosure flap, spine bit darkened, but a fine copy. First published in 1908, this is an attractive production of this classic, well-illustrated, and with an introduction by T. E. Lawrence and a preface by Edward Garnett. The illustrations are brush drawings by Edy Legrand, made along the same route as taken by Doughty. A picture of this book is available on request.
Seller: Horizon Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
DOUGHTY, Charles M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1953.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Abridged and arranged by Edward Garnett. Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Illustrations by Edy Legrand. Small 4to. Beige linen with brown lettering and pictorial stamping and wraparound closure flap. xxi, 455pp. Color map frontispiece, numerous small and full-page brown-ink illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Originally published in 1888, this LEC production of the popular travelogue is the 11th title in their 21st series. Bright and tight, done up in handsome two-column format. Rear colophon notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #650). Laid in is the appropriate LEC "Monthly Letter." NEWMAN 231.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
DOUGHTY, Charles M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1953.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition. 455pp. Pictorial natural linen stamped in brown with envelope-like flap. The text is abridged and arranged by Edward Garnett with a prefatory note by Mr. Garnett, a general introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Illustrated by Edy Legrand. Lightly soiled cloth, else near fine. One of twenty-five presentation copies with embossed stamp on limitation page. This is number "FDF" of fifteen hundred copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, natiral linen with wraparound flap. One of 1500 numbered copies, the entire edition. Some soil, else fine, issued without slipcase.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$284.74 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp. xxi, 455, [1]colophon. double-page map extending over title in red & blue. numerous text illus. (many full-page, incl. endleaves). original brown-stamped white linen, wallet flap (spine darkened, otherwise fine). Limited to 1500 numbered copies. Designed by George Macy, composed and printed on Curtis special paper by Irvin Silvers at the shop of the Garamond Press in Baltimore, set in linotype Cloister Old Style, illustrations drawn by Legrand on a pilgimage through Arabia and reproduced through collotype by Arthur Jaffe, NY, cover and calligraphic title page drawn by Jeanyee Wong, bound by Russell-Rutter Company, NY. LEC Quarto-Millenary 231.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada