Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from The Arabian Nights
by Edmund Dulac
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-317: The Easton Press. Very Good. 2000. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. 2000. 222 pgs. Illustrated wtih color frontispiece portrait and color illustrations. Bound in full leather with raised bands to the spine ends. Decorated gilt stamped boards and spine with all edges gilt. Silk moiree endsheets with silk bookmark sewn into the binding. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Light foxing present on some of the page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In the time of Harun-er-Rashid there was, in Baghdad, a rich merchant named Sinbad the Sailor, the source of whose wealth was a mystery. It seemed to be inexhaustible. For long seasons he kept open house, and his entertainments were the most magnificent of all save only those of Er-Rashid himself. All that riches could buy seemed at his disposal, and he lavished the good things of this life upon his guests. Pages, slaves and attendants there were in great number; his garden was spacious and beautiful, and his house was filled with every costly luxury. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65228
- Title
- Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from The Arabian Nights
- Author
- Edmund Dulac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- E-317
- Date Published
- 2000
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