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London, New York, Toronto:: Hodder and Stoughton,, [1911].. Ink notation on front pastedown; endsheets and final leaf of text tanned and a little brittle; spine darkened with light use at extremities; tight and sound.. With drawings by Edmund Dulac.. Retold by Laurence Houseman.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with discolouration to rear board. Corners bumped. Sporadic foxing and occasional light marking. [1935]. Reprint. Blue hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 251pp. 28 laid-in colour plates. .

1911, 6 x 8.5 inches approx, hardback in green cloth board covers with pasted image and art nouveau decor, unpaginated, includes six stories - Ali Baba & The 40 Thieves, Wicked Half-Brothers, Princess of Deryabar, The Magic Horse, The Fisherman & The Genie, and The King of The Ebony Isles, illus. 24 colour plates by Edmund Dulac | this copy is intact and useable, showing heavy general wear as usual for a volume of the kind; cloth is splitting at edges of spine (should be visible in image); foxing to text block edges; back endpapers are split across hinge, exposing webbing; free of name, notes etc; NB all plates confirmed present and in clean condition; some other copies mention tissue guards with titles, but there are no guards in this volume and titles are printed on blank pages preceding plates | in summary, a tired and now rather fragile but still attractive copy | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Large octavo. 237 pp. 16 color plates. Printed dust jacket. Red cloth stamped in black. Brazier endpapers. Dust jacket shows some very shallow chipping at extremities with some general rubbing. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. [Hughey 16z, aa, bb].

George H. Doran Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. c. 1923. Non-Book. ; Black cloth cover is frayed and bumped at corners with wear to spine caps and edges but clean and in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are slightly toned with sparse modest thumbing but very good. Complete with 16 tipped-in color plates. ; 0 pages .

Hodder and Stoughton. Used - Very Good. 1907. Gilt-titled cloth, large octavo, 133 pp. + 50 full color, tipped-in plates. Spine sunned. Corners slightly bumped. Binding somewhat worn, but sound. Front hinge starting, but holding. Overall, very good. (Subject: Literature.)

London & New York: Hodder and Stoughton and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First edition, with the title-page imprint added for America but with the same sheets that were printed in England by Butler and Tanner and used for the first English issue. With 50 fine tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. The plates tipped to heavy green-gray stock, each with a captioned tissue-guard. 4to, original rust-colored cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper cover in Arabian motif. 133 pp. text + 50 tipped in plates on heavy mounting paper. A good and honest copy, the plates are all pristine and very fine, though a few of the mounting pages have a small bump at the edge, the text is quite clean, the text-block is solid though slightly shaken, the binding is still quite attractive though with a bit of age and some light edge wear on occasion, still handsome and well preserved and a very decent copy of this fine book, beautifully illustrated. BEAUTIFULLY… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1914]. Pictures which preserve to a marvel the Persian feeling" (Times Literary Supplement) First Dulac trade edition, first impression. There was also a deluxe edition of 500 signed copies bound in vellum. Hughey notes that "the Sindbad pictures... stand almost as a hallmark of one very persistent technique among his ever-evolving styles". "The exotic stories he illustrated struck a new chord in Dulac. They allowed him to enlarge his skill at caricature, and at the same time to sharpen his miniaturist's technique and to develop his lyrical sense of tone and composition. The sources he turned to were Japanese prints, which he had studied in his youth, with their flat colour and asymmetry, and the high detail and colour of Indian and Persian miniatures" (ODNB). Quarto. Original pictorial tan cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt with elaborate blue and gilt design, floral patterned brown endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 22 coloured plates mounted on paper with… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Some darkening to vellum covers, commensurate with age. Silk ribbon marker detached but loosely laid-in. Contents clean and tight. Teg - remaining edges uncut. [1909]. Limited Edition [179/500]. Cream hardback vellum cover with gilt decoration. 300mm x 240mm (12" x 9"). 222pp. 23 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .