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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Smith, Nora Archibald [editors]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, royal octavo bound in black cloth lettered in gold on spine and with large color pictorial paste-down on front cover. 339 pages, with a single page of publisher's ads appended. Illustrated with 9 full page color plates by Maxfield Parrish. Early reprint of this title, still containing nine plates [the first edition by Scribner, published in 1909, contained twelve, this number continually whittled down until finally in the 1940's only six remained]. Previous owner's name reconditely located on rear free end-paper. Black cloth shows moderate mottling and front paste-down darkened from age soiling/dust. Spine lettering dulled but still quite readable. A sound, tight copy, hinges strong, interior unmarked and all color plates collated and in fine condition. A near very good copy of a nice vintage edition of this children's classic, edited by two famous children's book authors and illumed by the most famous book illustrator of the early twentieth century. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019124
- Title
- The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Smith, Nora Archibald [editors]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Children's Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens Books;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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