Arabian Nights Tipped-in Color Plate Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1907
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"When having brought into submission all the rest of my race."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"When having brought into submission all the rest of my race."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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Features djinn appearing from jar.
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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Features woman next to fruit tree and white peacock.
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"The ship struck upon a rock."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"He arrived within sight of a palace of shining marble."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"Thereupon the damsel upset the pan into the fire."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"No sooner had the monarch seen them, so strange of form and so brilliant and diverse in hue."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"All this time the Princess had been watching the combat from the roof of the palace."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"At so arrogant a claim the courtiers burst into loud laughter."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"Having transformed himself by disguise."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"Recalling the fisherman by a swift messenger."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"Greater still was the exultation of a greedy nature like that of Cassim's."
. Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Dulac, Edmund. Unbound.
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"Began to heap upon me terms of the most violent and shameful abuse."
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped.
xiii, 599 pp. Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in.....
Washington, D.C. Mage Publishers, 2004. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Front cover lightly faded.
507 pp. Translated by Dick Davis. Inspiration for 1976 television series. “God forbid, I've fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator's life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family.....
New York: Harper, 2019. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
337 pp. "Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this powerful debut - a heart-wrenching story of.....
New York: Random House, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket.
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte.....
New York and London: White and Allen, 1889. Hard Cover.
U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Board corners rubbed.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper.
xvi, 188 pp. Records the personal history of the Lebanese poet and painter, vividly recreating his personality and philosophy.