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The Arabian Nights
by Orton Lowe, Introduction
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€23.49€16.44
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Company, 1924 The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, PA.1924. Hardcover. Reprint edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O bookplate on the FFFP verso. Book Condition: Very Good; light wear to head, tail, tips and spine shoulders from shelving. No DJ. Orange cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine; paste on color picture on front board with white lettering. Red Oriental pictorial endpapers. Color frontispiece and sixty pen and ink illustrations with three other color plates. Internal hinges are sound and not split or cracked. This edition contains 24 stories from the original One Thousand and One Nights that tell of a wonderful realm of enchantment and Oriental magic where almost anything is likely to happen. A beautiful clean children's book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009194
- Title
- The Arabian Nights
- Author
- Orton Lowe, Introduction
- Illustrator
- Adeline H. Bolton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1924
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Arabia, Richard Burton, Arabian Nights, The Arabian Nights, Middle East, fables, tales, Shahrazad, King Shahrizar, Children' stories, fiction, flying carpets, Aladin's Lamp, Arabs, Palaces,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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