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Published by Colonial Press, NY, 1900
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: vg. viii 457 pages; glossy b/w frontis of Mohammed & 3 other plates with tissue guards; many pages unopened; text clean, address label inside front cover; binding solid; top edge gilt; 9.25" tall; light shelf wear to edges of burgundy cover; gilt lettering & decor on spine. Hardcover.
Published by The Colonial Press, New York, 1900
Seller: THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA, SANDY, UT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: VG-. Revised Edition. Octavo. Forest green cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on both the spine and the front board, and a shiny gilt frame on the front board. Book has quite a bit of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the outside corners. Light rubbing around the outside edges. Light facial rub on the base of the spine and on the lower part of the rear board. Cream colored endpapers. Previous owner's book plate stamp on the front endpaper. Different previous owner's name written on the upper edge of the front endpaper. Binding is still straight and tight. Cream colored pages are all clean and crisp, but have a light watermark on the lower 1 1/2" - more easily discernable from the waviness of the pages than from the darkness of the markings. Top edge of the textblock is gilt and shiny. No dust jacket.
Published by The Colonial Press, London, England, 1900
Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Thus. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1900, Revised Edition Stated, GOOD+/GOOD, AS-IS, NOJACKET, 467 pgs, Beige Brown Tweed Cloth Stain on Front Sunning, Titled on Spine with Label with Gilt Lettering, Interior NICE tight clean light Wear , FOX, rough cuTpages edges by Publ., .B/W Sepia Frontispiece Designed by Isa Mohammed, of Taj-Mahal Built by Emperor Shah Jehan as a Mausoleum for Empress, Mumtazi Mahal, who Died in Giving Birth to Princess Jehanava in Year 1630 in India.
Published by The Colonial Press, London New York, 1900
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 302 pp./149 pp. Stated: "Revised Edition". Two volumes in one, separately paginated, each with a Fine Photogravure frontispiece and Fine tissue guard, Vol. II also having an additional Photogravure Illustration: "Page from an Arabic Story-Book". Volume One: "Comprising "The Analects of Confucius" [Translated by William Jennings]; "The Shii-King" [Translated by James Legge]; "The Sayings of Mencius" [Translated by James Legge]; "The Sorrows of Han" [Translated by John Francis Davis]; and "The Travels of Fa-Hien [Translated by James Legge]"; Volume Two Comprising "The Romance of Antar" [Translated by Etienne Delecluse and Epiphanius Wilson]; Arabian Poetry" [Translated by J.D. Carlyle]; Arabian Nights" ["Selected Tales edited by Andrew Lang"]. NO jacket. Blue-green cloth with brilliant gilt lettering and linear elements on front cover; gilt lettering on spine diminished (still eminently readable); top edge gilt [teg]; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut. Wear across spine ends with slight fraying; edge of gutter on rear cover browned with apparent rubbing away of surface cloth and similar 1/4" spot on front cover gutter edge (NO tearing or fraying); some apparent liquid splotches at lower cover corners (surface color diminished to light blue; NO warping of cloth); spine sunned to light black from blue-green; minor sunning around perimeters of cover (diminished blue-green, not blackened): Describes worse than it is, but there you have it. Tight binding (NO cracks); Essentially sharp corners with micro-hint of inward curls at lower corners; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Remarkably well-preserved text for a Classic more than 100 years-old. The way to read such a Classic. From Amazon: "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it . . ./ Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public.".