The Arabian Nights Their Best-Known Tales
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas and Nora A Smith (Editors)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Weare,, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scriber's Sons. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1919. Reprint. Hardcover. A clean, solid copy in black cloth with a fully intact front cover pastedown illustrated by Parrish. Previous owner's bookplate. Gilt spinal titles. Endpapers, Illustrated title page and 12 additional color illustrations by Parrish all intact and unmarred. Black cloth as two perforations at spine gutter one front near top and one pinhole sized at bottom rear. Modest wear to cloth finish and edges. A terrific copy overall compete and not robbed of its illustrations! .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boomer's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13987
- Title
- The Arabian Nights Their Best-Known Tales
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas and Nora A Smith (Editors)
- Illustrator
- Maxfield Parrish
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Charles Scriber's Sons
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Maxfield Parrish illustrated books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antique Children's Books;
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About the Seller
Boomer's Books
Biblio member since 2003
Weare,, New Hampshire
About Boomer's Books
Boomer's Books has an open shop in Weare, NH (weekends only). We accept Mastercard, Visa, American Express & Discover. We specialize in Military History, New England, Mysteries, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Religion, Literature, Signed Books & Proofs and Items of unusual interest.
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- Gilt
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- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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