Stories from the Arabian Nights; Retold by Laurence Housman
New York: George H. Doran Company [1923], 1923. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], ix-xxiii, [3], 27-237, [3] pp. Red cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with fifteen full-page color illustrations by Edmund Dulac, mounted on the leaves. Each plate has a corresponding page with a full-page illustration on the recto. Hughey 16z, aa, bb. The first trade edition in English of Dulac's illustrated edition appeared in 1907. Doran reissued Housman's book in the twenties. The book is the first edition of Doran's reissue in America, the jacket is a later issue jacket with the price of $3.50 on the front flap (as advertised in the publisher's ads on the flaps, book was originally issued at $2.50). A beautiful illustrated edition of stories from the Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #000010526
A small sticker on the recto of the rear flyleaf; jacket shows fading to its edges.
Price: $250.00