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New York / London.: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1933. First published in 1909 with a few additional Parrish plates.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Volume has suffered water damage to top and right-side edges. NO staining to text or color plates, only to page border edges. NO odor. NO mildew staining. Front cover scuffed. Gold spine stamped titles dulled, readable. Parrish, Maxfield (Illustrated by). 1 339 p. Includes illustrations. Preface by Wiggin, 1909. 9 Color plates. 10 stories. Cover full-color plate w/black titles, a likely Parrish; 2-color endpapers unknown illustrator: seascape rocks, tree, banners. Stories were translated over time from Arabic to French to English near 1704. They came from the collection then of M. Galland, numbering 264 "bewildering, unparalleled stories" (Wiggin preface). She notes of the 10 tales herein, nothing has been eliminated nor altered save repetitions in some of the originals from Muslim Arab storytellers. The Maxfield Parrish paintings used… Read More

Charles Scribners Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Charles Scribners Sons; New York, 1939. Hardcover. Later but Early Printing. A Very Good, black cloth binding with color paper illustration on front board and gilt lettering on spine, top text block edge stained orange, deckle fore-edge, some age toning to pages, bit of rubbing to board and spine edges, few uncut pages, ink handwritten year top front endpaper, in a Very Good, glassine with paper flaps, large tear to rear panel, chipped top and bottom spine, 2-inch tear top front panel, bit of creasing to flaps, Dust wrapper. A nice and clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 339pp., color illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

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! .

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. deluxe limited. hardcover. fine. First Deluxe edition. 1/150 not numbered copies. Fine. In glassine paper, piece at top of spine missing. With gilt top edge & satin marker ribbon. Color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, in publisher's slipcase.