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Price: US$861.06 + shipping
Description: 29 x 23,5 cm. (8), 113, (2) pages, with 10 tipped-in color plates, book decoration and original gilt picture buckram after Edmund Dulac. Spine slight sunned, a good copy. With the bookplate of Cecil E. Byas on upper pastedown. Prinzessin Badura. Eine Geschichte aus 1001 Nacht, neu erzählt von Laurence Housman, illustriert von Edmund Dulac. [kein Ort] Gedruckt bei der Edinburgh University Press von T. und A. Constable für Hodder und Stoughton. [nicht datiert, 1913]. 29 x 23,5 cm. (8), 113, (2) Seiten, mit 10 montierten Farbtafeln, Buchschmuck und original vergoldetem Bildrahmen nach Edmund Dulac. Nummer 33 von 750 Exemplaren, von Dulac signiert. Rücken leicht gebräunt, unterer Schnitt leicht bestossen, gutes Exemplar. Mit dem Exlibris von Cecil E. Byas auf dem vorderen Innendeckel. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Stader Kunst-Buch-Kabinett ILAB, Stade, Germany
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 750 numbered copies signed by Dulac. [8] 113 [3]pp. With 10 tipped-in color plates. Bound in decorative cloth. Unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1259.15 + shipping
Description: [Illustrated Folk Tales] FIRST DULAC EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[8] 113 [3]. With 10 mounted colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's white cloth with elaborate pale blue and gilt decoration to upper and spine, decorated framed margins to text block, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed notice for Dulac watercolour exhibition tucked in (Leicester Square Galleries, London, Nov.15th-24th Dec. 1913). Contents very clean, loose flyer a little spotted, binding tight and square, spine gently toned. A crisp, near fine copy. A special presentation of a single story from the vast 'Thousand Nights and a Night' corpus of Middle Eastern folk tales. Copy number 429 of 750, signed by Edmund Dulac.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1614.29 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 346 of 750 copies signed by the artist. A review in The Bookman stated that, "Scherazade's romance of Badoura, the beautiful Princess of China. supplies Edmund Dulac with a subject exactly suited to his gracious, exquisitely delicate art". The Athenaeum found in the tale "a rootlet of later Persian feminism". Hughey notes that Dulac "altered his style" for this book in order "to follow that of Chinese painting. The result is a very new, but mature style, most subtle in both design and colours. None of his work before or after was quite like it". A review in The Outlook stated "nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush than the picture of Badoura in the arms of Camaralzaman against a background so exquisite as to make one hold one's breath". Hughey 31. The Bookman, December 1913; The Outlook, 15 November 1913. Quarto. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and decorated with pictorial design blocked in gilt and green, pale green endpapers, top edge green. Colour frontispiece and nine coloured plates tipped in, with captioned tissue guards, all by Dulac. Extremities a little bumped, spine soiled, some slight browning; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: "So Exquisite as to Make One Hold One's Breath" [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. [ARABIAN NIGHTS]. Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., 1913]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies signed by Edmund Dulac (this being No. 252). Large quarto (11 3/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 287 x 226 mm.). [viii], 113, [1, printer's imprint], [2, blank] pp. Ten mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with tissue guards printed at top with the design from the title-page and descriptive letterpress in light olive ink. Title within fanciful line border and with design of two winged figures holding high an urn of flowers in light olive ink. Text within similar line border in light olive ink. Publisher's cream buckram pictorially stamped in pale green and gilt (with design from title-page embellished by two peacocks and additional lines) and lettered in gilt on front cover and decoratively stamped in pale green and gilt and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened, otherwise a near fine copy. With the original Leicester Galleries 1913 exhibition advertisement sheet laid in. Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights is a 1913 short story written by Laurence Housman and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Based on a tale from "One Thousand and One Nights", this beautifully-illustrated story is highly recommend for lovers of folklore and collectors of classic fairy tales. Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953) was a French-born British illustrator and stamp designer. He was born in Toulouse and studied law there, but later, realising that his true passion was illustration, studied art the École des Beaux-Arts. Having moved to London in the early 20th century, Dulac received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters in 1905. During the First World War, he illustrated relief books; and after the war, when children's books were in low demand, he began illustrating magazines. Other notable works containing Dulac's illustrations include: "The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales" (1910), "Stories from Hans Christian Andersen" (1911), and "The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe" (1912). Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage classic illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old. "Nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush than the picture of Badoura in the arms of Camaralzaman against a background so exquisite as to make one hold one's breath" (from the review in The Outlook, November 15, 1913, Supplement XIII, quoted in Hughey). Hughey 31.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2260.01 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 116 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Dulac's work rivalled Rackham's in popularity and was largely confined to deluxe editions. "Nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush than the picture of Badoura in the arms of Camaralzaman against a background so exquisite as to make one hold one's breath" (review in The Outlook, 15 Nov. 1913). Quarto. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and decorated with pictorial design blocked in gilt and green, pale green endpapers, top edge green. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco solander box. Colour frontispiece and 9 colour plates tipped in and with captioned tissue guards, by Dulac. Cloth a little finger-marked, else very bright, a little faint browning to free endpapers. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom