New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1964. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1964. Stated First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. "First American Edition 1964" stated on copyright page, in clean original unclipped jacket. Clean light beige buckram cloth boards with red decoration and gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (slight dust-speckling to deckled page edges). Clean red endpapers, with previous owner bookplate on front free endpaper. 271 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (6.00 on front inside flap), unchipped, no tears, some fading to spine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The classic Arabian treatise on physical love, Translated by Sir Richard F. Burton and Edited with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Alan Hull Walton..

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Bookseller: Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 018834
Title: The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi
Author: Burton, Sir Richard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: Stated First American Edition.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1964
Keywords: EROTIC LITERATURE EROTICA ARABIAN CLASSIC PHYSICAL LOVE SIR RICHARD F. BURTON

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