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Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night -- vol. 3
by Burton, Richard Francis, translator
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
S.l.: Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers Only, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vol. 3 only: xiii, [3], 304 p., frontispiece and 4 leaves of plates; 25 cm. Publisher's off-white cloth with printed paper spine title. Top page edges gilt. Title page printed in red and black. A few pages are unopened. No date of publication; the Foreword is dated 1887. This is number 723 of a limited edition of 1,000 numbered sets. Contents: The Tale of Zayn al-Asnam -- Alaeddin; or, The wonderful Lamp -- Adventures of Khudadad and His Brothers -- History of the caliph's Night Adventure -- Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves -- Story of Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad -- Adventures of Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peribanu -- Tale of the Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette -- Appendix: Variants and Analogues by W. A. Clouston. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is soiled; spine label is rubbed; pages and plates are clean and tight.
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- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007679
- Title
- Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night -- vol. 3
- Author
- Burton, Richard Francis, translator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers Only
- Place of Publication
- S.l.
- Date Published
- 1887
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Cloth
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