Richard F. Burton. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Burton Club, London, 1885.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This limited edition book ( number 895 0 of a thousand printed for the Burton Club of private Subscribers is Volume IX. The full title of the volume is : Plain and Literal translation of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction and explanatory Notes on the Manners and customs of Moslem men and a terminal essay Upon the History of the Nights. Note: this is the Shammar Edition.
Seller: Cerulean Day, Newtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine hardcover in black cloth boards with gilt-decorative front panel and gilt spinal lettering. Volume 4 only (of a 16 volume set). Translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton. Index, 307pp.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ]1st limited edition printing, sets printed for subscribers; no date given (circa 1903?) clean, unmarked pages/index, some uncut pages; black w/gilt decorations/titles; top edges heavy gilt. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of The Nights. [Translated and Annotated] by Richard F. Burton. Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers only.COMPLETE SET OF 10 VOL. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES
Seller: Shadetree Rare Books, Chatham, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This set is missing volume I and also volume V. It was limited to a printing of 1,000 of which this is number 667. The book has been bound in a light brown cloth with a title paper on the top of the spine. There is very little corner bumping and slight edge wear. Text has yellowed with age but there is very little foxing. Gilt on the top edge of the text block is still bright. Illustrations protective tissues appear complete. An owners name and personal library stamp is located on the front end paper, otherwise unmarked. Hinges and spine binding are quite solid. Very little rubbing or wear on the boards. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Covers clean with light edgewear. a few have front inside hinges cracked. text clean / bindings good. frontis in each w/ tissue. Printed for subscribers only. nice bookplate inside covers dated 1903. Good-Very Good / rust color cloth covers with paper spine label.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Description: ca. 5500 pp., Burton, Richard F. Facsimile reprint of the original 1885 edition. Complete in 10 vols plus 6 Supplement vols. Bound in black paper (simulated cloth surface) over board, with gilt titles and decoration. Supplement volumes have silver titling. Red top edge. Shipping assessed according to destination. Fine.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Price: US$845.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Offering consists of 17 volumes ( 1 - 10 The Thousand Nights and a Night and 11-17 The Supplemental Nights) of the Shammar Edition Limited to one thousand numbered sets of which this is Number340. Beige cloth covered boards have paste-on labels at head of spine, top edges gilt and other edges rough cut and glassine protected plates. Fo bookplates in all vol. Each vol. weighs approx. 2lb.and shipping will be more expensive. Bookseller's Inventory # 225792.
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
Price: US$1215.08 + shipping
Description: Bound in attractive blue half morocco by Bayntun, spines decorated with characters from the stories, and light blue cloth boards. Gilt top edges. 16 ex 17 volumes. Lacks Volume One of Supplements volumes. Each size approx 9.25 x 6.5 inches. In very good conditions. Spines very lightly sunned. One spine very light scuff, another volume has small mark centre of spine (Vol V Supplement.) A few very light minor marks to boards. Volume I small inscription on front endpaper. Each volume on first blank page has a few pencil notes relating to stories. Inside a few pages uncut. Else generally very clean & tight. Illustrated Benares Edition with many b&w illustrations. Hand numbered; 777 / 1000.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Limited Edition, numbered 313 of 1,000 numbered sets. Seventeen volumes. "A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments." Includes ten volumes of the Arabian Nights and 7 Volumes of the Supplemental Nights. Black and white frontispiece illustrations and illustrations throughout, by French and English artists including Lethford, Lalauze, and others. Richard F. Burton was an English writer, translator, explorer, poet, soldier, spy, linguist, and diplomat, known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa and his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. This version was one of the earliest unabridged translations of the popular Arabian Nights stories and is the most popular, considered "the most complete version of texts relating to the Arabian nights available in English," though it has also been criticized for its "archaic language and extravagant idiom" and "obsessive focus on sexuality." Tall octavos, original light gray cloth with printed paper spine labels, gilt top edge, original endpapers. All volumes are Very Good, some foxing to spines and spine labels of some volumes, some pages roughly opened.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2444.62 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 1,000 numbered sets, of which this is no. 616. Good to very good copies in the original cloth. Title-printed spine labels, slightly edge-worn. Varying degrees of wear and fraying to the spine bands. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical description: 17 v. : fronts., plates. ; 24 cm. 15 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$2644.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 1,000 numbered sets, of which this is no. 616. Good to very good copies in the original cloth. Title-printed spine labels, slightly edge-worn. Varying degrees of wear and fraying to the spine bands. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical description: 17 v. : fronts., plates. ; 24 cm. 15 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3898.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original black cloth with gilt and silver decorations, bookplates of William Hall Baron Wavertree, and John Hely-Hutchinson, Chippenham Lodge, Ely, head of a few spines rubbed, head of Volume 1 neatly repaired, Volume 5 neat repair to spine, Volume 10 neatly re-backed retaining original spine, Supplemental Nights Volume 6 neatly re-backed retaining original spine, small neat repairs to two other volumes, including the Supplemental Nights, Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, Benares, first edition, 1885-88. First edition of Burton's translation. It remains the only translation of the complete Nights, Burton's magnum opus and the pre-eminent English translation of the Middle Eastern classic. Richard Burton travelled to Mecca, explored the African Great Lakes and shocked his readers with his candid travel accounts; he was one of the foremost linguists of his time, and also an explorer, poet, translator, ethnologist, and archaeologist, among other things. ‘The Thousand Nights and a Night’ is probably the most famous of all his many works. This translation reflected his encyclopaedic knowledge of Arabic language, sexual practices and life: "it reveals a profound acquaintance with the vocabulary and customs of the Muslims, with their classical idiom," [Encl. Brit.] as well as colloquialisms, philosophy, modes of thought and intimate details. The first edition was published in 1885-88 and reissued by the Burton Club shortly thereafter. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment is "a collection of ancient Persian-Indian-Arabian tales, originally in Arabic, arranged in its present form about 1450, probably in Cairo. The collection is also known as A Thousand and One Nights. Although the stories are distinct in plot, they are unified by Scheherazade, the supposed teller; she postpones her execution by telling her husband Schahriah, a story night after night, without revealing the climax until the following session. Sir Richard Burton’s monumental version was issued only to subscribers by the Kamashastra Society of Benares in 1885-86. Among the more recent editions is [one] by Powys Mathers" (Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia). The most popular stories include "Aladdin," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "Sinbad the Sailor." "Burton arrived at Bombay in October 1842 and was posted to Baroda, about 400 kilometres to the north, where he spent much of his time perfecting his knowledge of Hindustani and Arabic." (R. J. Howgego). Bibliographic references: Cf. Howgego III, B98 (p. 146, first ed. 1885-88). #34716.
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
Price: US$27843.01 + shipping
Description: 16mo. 4 pp. on bifolium with United Services Club embossed letterhead. In custom quarter morocco folder. To Colonel Montgomery, referencing the success of the "Arabian Nights": "[.] To my great astonishment The Nights has hit the public taste: it has of later years been so stuffed with goody-goody, namby-pamby Maria-Matilda that it wants 'strong meat' and by Jove it has got it. We had the pleasure of seeing my good friend Thayer here and I (unhappily) forgot to put his name down for the Athenaeum Club - London without a club is like a park without games. We are both living well under influence of beef and port (wine) and shudder at the lean flesh pots of Trieste (veal) [.]". - Burton published his famous translation of the "Arabian Nights" ("The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night") in a private printing for the Kama Shashtra Society in 1885. The private publication, by subscription only, was necessary to avoid Victorian obscenity strictures. - Reinforcement at fold, a little smudging to signatures.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria