HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN by Morier, james - first edition , 1937, oversize

New York: Random House, 1937 Many brightly colored ilustrations by Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge. Pictorial buckram cloth with great pictorial. Exceptional artwork. A beautifully done volume. 403pp. 10 3/4" x 7 1/2". Spine toned. Clean. Tight. no jacket. Very good condition..

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1895. Book. Illus. by Millar, H.R. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Maroon blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Edges scuffed, corners fraying. Backstrip is faded. Page edges rough cut and yellowing. Page edges must have gotten damp as there is a bit of maroon staining on some pages. Nice tight copy..

New York: Random House, 1937. Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Cover has a few spots but is generally clean and bright. Hinges are strong, and interior, while browning a bit with age, is clean and bright, striking color illustrations. VG/no DJ..

New York: Random House, 1937 Illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge with many brightly colored illustrations. Beautiful - exceptional artwork. Pictorial buckram cloth in bright condition with great pictorial. 403pp. 4to. 10 3/4"x 7 1/2". Beautifully done volume. Tight and clean. no jacket. Very good condition..

New York: Random House, 1937. Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Cover is bright and clean with slight stain at edge of front, hinges strong, and interior almost like new. VG+/no DJ..

New York, NY: Random House, 1937. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 403pp, 1937. Random House, 1st edition thus. Cloth hardcover, no dustjacket. Covers and spine with color illustration. Illustrated with color plates. A nice copy..

New York: Random House, 1937. Hardcover. James Justinian Morier, (born c.1780, Smyrna, Tur. - died March 19, 1849, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.), English diplomat and writer whose fame depends on The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a picaresque romance of Persian life that long influenced English ideas of Persia; its Persian translation (1905) led to the development of the modern Persian novel of social criticism. The first of a series of novels written by Morier after he retired, Hajji Baba drew on the knowledge of Persia and its people that he had acquired on the British embassy staff at Tehr n (1809–15)". (Britannica). This volume is near fine in a very good dust jacket. The publisher's illustrated cloth binding is bright and clean with trivial wear confined to the corners. The contents are clean and tight, slightly age-toned toward the page edges, but with no spotting. There is a single previous owner's name inked on the ffep. The dust jacket illustration mirrors that of the binding.… Read More

random house, first edition , 1937, oversize hardcover. near fine in very good -fine dust jacket , some chipping along the top edge of the spine and front, name written inside

random house, first edition , oversize hardcover. 1937, fine book in a very good -fine dust jacket , small corner chips, edge slits, b/w and color illustrations by baldridge

Stone and Kimball, 1895. Hardcover. Collectible; Very good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895. VOLUME I ONLY. English Classics series, edited by W. E. Henley. Hardcover, no dust jacket, in gilt decorated cloth, head of spine chipped badly, spine cover dark. Corners rubbed with some loss, light fray. Prior owner's name on front pastedown; small pencil mark front free endpaper. Pages 29-32 repaired with tape, text still legible. Gilt top edge; panels a little scraped, bottom edges. Sm 8vo. 242pp.