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New York: Portland House 871pp. Light wear, soiling.. Paperback. VG-.

UsedGood. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing There are stains or residue on the cover The dust jacket is missing. Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

New York: Portland House, 1978. Paperback. pp. 871. 8vo. General shelfwear, black marker inscription to inside front cover; very good.

NY: Modern Library, 1959. dj w/lite unclipped price, in mylar; navy c w/gilt spine titles ; 823 clen, unmarked pages+publisher's listngs; #201 in series. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

NY: Modern Library, 1959. dj w/llite wear & rubbing, unclipped price, in mylar; 823 clean, unmarked pages + catalog; solid blue binding w/embossed runner on front, gilt spine titles; Rockwell Kent end papers; (#201 in series). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1962. Book. Good+. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, cloth spine over decorative paper covered boards, in publisher's black slipcase. 1334 pages. Introduction. Illustrated with numerous line drawing by Valenti Angelo. Volumes I and II (bound as one) of the plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments made and annotated by Richard F. Burton. Includes Heritage Sandglass, which is somewhat toned and cropped at fore-edge, though with no loss to text. Circa 1962. No previous ownership marks. White cloth spine is toned to tan, albeit lettering and decorations unaffected. Else book is clean, square, and unmarked. Original cardboard slipcase in excellent condition. Good+ in a fine slipcase. .

The Burton Club (n/d circa mid 1880's). This Volume Only, super octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

The Burton Club (n/d circa mid 1880's). This Volume Only, super octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

The Burton Club (n/d circa mid 1880's). This Volume Only, super octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Six volumes in three books. Spines are tight and interiors are clean and unmarked. Only very light shelf-wear. Beautiful Heritage edition with pictorial boards and fantastic decorations and illustrations by Angelo. Fiction.

Burton Club, 1965. Silver titles on deep blue cloth. Five of the seven-volume set. Fresh, clean and unmarked.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

Burton Club, 1965. Gilt titles on deep blue cloth. Fresh, clean and unmarked.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

Limited Editions Club, NY, 1934, #357 of 1500 copies, signed by illustrator in Volume 6. Six Volumes, 8vos., 1/4-leather, 3975pp., leather powdery, spine caps chipped, a couple of cracked inner hinges, contents G $

London: The Burton Club. Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bagdad Edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 957. Publisher's full light green cloth, paper labels on spines, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. nd (c. 1900). Illustrated with numerous tissue-protected half-tone plates, including frontispiece in each volume. . Spines moderately worn, labels worn and soiled; all ten volumes unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD.. B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

USA: The Burton Club All vols. between 260 and 473 pages. All vols. lightly rubbed with light foxing on several edges; small stain bottom edge vol. 9. Footnotes & appendix. All vols. in plastic protective Djs.. Hb. VG/No Dj Issued..

Burton Club 17 Volumes published in a limited edition by the Burton Society, circa 1906, this is number 289 out of 1000 issued, someone has chosen to enhance the first series by inserting illustrations from other editions of the Arabian Nights, some in colour most by Virginia Francis Sterrett but some others I can't identify but would appear to be another edition of the nights Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: The Burton Club. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bassorah Edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 942. Publisher's full beige cloth, paper labels on spines, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. nd (c. 1903). Illustrated with numerous tissue-protected half-tone plates, including color frontispiece in each volume. Includes the seven volume supplement and Index. Lacking only Volume One. "A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertaainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden… Read More

London.: H.S. Nichols and Co., 1894.. Original publisher's black cloth with large gilt Islamic motif and title in Arabic (Alf Layla wa Layla) to front covers, gilt calligraphic Arabic titles to rear covers, vignettes and English titles gilt to spines, cream glazed endpapers, t.e.g.. 12 vols. Large 8vo. (257 x 174 mm).. Half-title, frontispiece with Arabic quotations verso and printed title in red and black to each vol., 'Editor's Note', reproduction of the title in red and black of the Kamashastra Edition, leaf with black-bordered dedication to 'John Frederick Steinhauser, contents and 'The Translator's Preface' to vol. 1 and Burton's text translated from the Arabic; publisher's slip inserted between endpapers of each vol. A beautiful set of Sir Richard Burton's translation of Alf Layla wa Layla, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, a closer translation of the Arabic title of Alf Layla wa Layla than 'The Thousand and One Nights' is narrated by… Read More

London: H.S. Nichols, 1897. Twelve volumes in the original box - Volume One - xxxii, 416pp; Volume Two - viii, 431pp, [1]; Volume Three - x, 444pp; Volume Four - x, 420pp; Volume Five - viii, 400pp; Volume Six - [10], 408pp; Volume Seven - viii, 406pp; Volume Eight - xii, 424pp; Volume Nine - xiii, [1], 444pp; Volume Ten - xix, [1], 479pp, [1]; Volume Eleven - ix, [1], 495pp, [1] and Volume Twelve - xxiv, 399pp, [1]. Publishers half morocco and cloth, raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered directly to second panel, translator and volume to fourth, arabic script to first and sixth panels with knot work tool to third and fifth, t.e.g., marbled endpapers in original box. Spines very slightly faded, some spines very slightly discoloured, some light foxing to edges of text block. Internally some light foxing to endpapers and occasionally to text, but generally clean. Housed in the publishers original drop front box, or 'casket' (somewhat faded with minor repairs and with a replacement… Read More