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SINDBAD THE SAILOR & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights.
by DULAC, Edmund (illustrator).:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
(London), Hodder & Stoughton, (1914).. FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS (1914), 4to, approximately 285 x 220 mm, 11¼ x 8¾, 23 mounted coloured plates with captioned guards, buff illustrations and decorations to title page, buff decorated borders to all pages. In original publisher's tan cloth, blue floral decoration, large gilt illustration to upper cover, gilt decoration and lettering to upper cover and spine, floral pattern endpapers, 223 pages. Slightest wear to head and tail of spine, spine just very slightly darkened, spine gilt bright, no inscriptions, half-title and blank verso of final page lightly foxed, a pale fox spot on about 6 text pages, tiny pale stain to lower corner of plate mount page 176 and to top corner of tissue guard at same page (see image 5), tiny pale stain to upper- and fore-edge of text pages 171-184, light brown staining to fore-edge of plate mount page 184 (see image 5), tiny stain to fore-edge of plate mount at page 192, all plates perfect, no corner creases. A very good bright tight copy. See Hughey 35a. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46950
- Title
- SINDBAD THE SAILOR & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights.
- Author
- DULAC, Edmund (illustrator).:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- (London), Hodder & Stoughton, (1914).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Edmund Dulac illustrated books children's books colour illustrated books Arabian Nights
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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