Arabian Nights Translated by Richard Burton (11 results)

Condition: Fine. Like new condition with light scratches to the dust jacket. The content is in new condition.

Paperback. 's Reprint Edition. CL-603, almost near fine, (COLLECTION OF 10 STORIES), paperback,

VIII, 600 p.,16 p of plates. 28 cm. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Símil piel editorial con sobrecubierta. Profusamente ilustrado Muy buen estado. IMPORTANTE. Lea Nuestras Condiciones de Venta y Gastos de Envío.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited edition, #1160 of 1500 copies. Small surface tear on base panel of one slipcase. Boards of volume one lightly soiled. Gilt on spine of all volumes lightly rubbed. 1954 Hard Cover. Four volume set in two slipcases: The First Volume; Notes for the First Volume; The Second Volume: Notes for the Second Volume. Sixty-five of the famous stories collectively known as 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments' or 'A Thousand and One Nights'. The Richard Burton translation, with notes by Henry Torrens, Edward Lane, and John Payne, and color illustrations from paintings by Arthur Szyk.  "One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment."  "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 - 20 October 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages."  "Arthur Szyk (Poland, 1894 - New Canaan, Connecticut, September 13, 1951) was a Polish-born American artist, famous for his anti-Axis political illustrations, caricatures, and cartoons during World War II, as well as his illustrations for magazine and newspaper articles and books; including an illustrated Haggadah of Pesach, the Szyk Hagaddah, cited by The Times as "worthy to be placed among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has ever produced". His illustrations took the form of medieval miniaturists and illuminated manuscripts, which gave them a very distinctive style. Szyk dedicated his work to democracy and freedom, and end to political injustice and human suffering, saying of his work, "Art is not my aim, it is my means", and "I am but a Jew praying in art.

First Easton Press Edition. Illustrated and decorated on full-page plates in colours by Arthur Szyk Thick Quarto, bound in the publisher's original blue-black leather, the covers fully gilt in an all-over design, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, the compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt, silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. [xii, [2], 674, [261 Notes] pp. A pristine copy, as mint, a bit of mellowing to the edges of the end-leaves. A HANDSOME ILLUSTRATED COPY OF A LITERARY MASTERPIECE. The text is from Burton's 1885 first edition faithfully followed. Grouped at the end of the text are Captain Sir Richard' Burton's explanatory annotations, which are necessary for the proper enjoyment of this remarkable translation. Additionally, the extensive "Notes" section of the work contains contributions by Torrens, Lane and Payne, each expert in the field.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Not dated but perhaps about 1920. (This is NOT a limited edition). Black leatherette lettered and decorated in gold (1-10) and silver (Supplemntal 1-6). All books approach Fine. NOT AVAILABLE OVERSEAS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hard Cover. Limited/Numbered. Approximately 6 1/2" X 10". SEVENTEEN VOLUMES IN ALL. Bassorah Edition. No date. Limited to 1000 numbered sets, of which this is number 852. Pages are clean, but yellowing. Covers are clean, with minor edgewear. Spines are a bit grubby, particuarly on paper titles. Bindings are fine on the interior but some are breaking along cover hinge. THe complete titles are : The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of The Nights. (And) Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory by Richard F. Burton.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1886 Arabian 1001 Nights Illustrated Ali Baba Aladdin Burton Arab Erotica 6v "A loss that can be repaired by money is not of such very great importance." The Arabian Nights During the Golden Age of Islam in South and West Asia, a collection of tales and stories was gathered and called "Osne Thousand and One Arabian Nights". It was first translated into French by Antoine Galland in 1704-17 and helped establish a positive attitude toward Islam in the Western world. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. The stories told in this collection introduce some of the most well-known characters of literature including Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad the Sailor. The famous Richard Burton translation was one of the only unabridged English translations done in the 19th-century. It gained its popularity through Burton's use of sexual imagery and his adding extensive and descriptive footnotes about Oriental sexual practices. At the time of publication, there were strict laws on obscenity in written material, and this edition was often considered pornographic. Even though Burton's language was called 'archaic' and 'over-sexualized,' it was still popular amongst subscribers and the general public alike. In 1886, Burton's wife published an edition of her husband's "Arabian Nights" a fine six-volume set! Item number: #27088 Price: $950 BURTON, Richard Francis The book of the thousand nights and a night a plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments; translated and annotated London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages; 6 volumes o Each volume separately paginated o Portrait frontispieces in Vols. 1 and 2 Provenance: Armorial bookplate Dudley Hervey o Dudley Francis Amelius Hervey CMG (18491911) was a British colonial administrative service officer. He held numerous offices and fulfilled a variety of roles, including chief clerk and interpreter to the Lieutenant-Governor of Penang; accompanied HMS Algerine to Sumatra to inquire into various cases of piracy; senior clerk in the Supreme Court, Singapore, clerk in bankruptcy and acting magistrate; Resident Councilor at Malacca; Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Straits Settlements. He was temporarily in charge of the State of Sungei Ujong in 1884 and the Negri Sembilan States from 1883 to 1886, in addition to his duties as Resident Councilor. Language: English Binding: Hardcover; secure o Original cream cloth Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15cm) VERY rare and desirable edition with auction records and price comparisons at upwards of $3,000 Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 27088 Photos available upon request.

The Library Edition. Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only. Complete in 12 volumes; large octavo, (27 x 18 x 56cm). Frontispiece portrait and photogravure illustrations with titled tissue guards. Publisher's original red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, green buckram boards, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Some spotting to edges of text block. Very minor handling but no significant condition issues to bindings; clean and fresh, not rubbed or dulled, joints and headcaps strong. A superior set in the publisher's handsome leather binding. 'The reader has here. the most complete English edition of The Nights that can ever be published.'.

The Manuscript Edition, number 50 of 150 sets; the original manuscript present here comprises an autograph letter signed from Burton to writer and friend James Hain Friswell, the dedicatee of Burton's Stone Talk (1865), "a bitter satire. enumerating many of the crimes which England has committed" (Penzer, p. 77); Friswell helped to see the book through the press. A sparkling set of this very handsome edition. Letter in full: 34 Upper Montague Place, Montague Square August 25/[18]64 My Dear Sir Please let me know when and where I can pick you up tomorrow en route for the club [possibly either the Savage or Cannibal clubs]. I have just returned from rustication [Burton returned from the Kingdom of Dahomey, West Africa, in August 1864]. In haste believe me yours sincerely Richard F. Burton Hain Friswell Esq The Burton Club reprints were based on the edition put out by the so-called Burton Society of Denver, Colorado, in 1900-01, "the first and by far the best reprint of the original unexpurgated edition of the Nights" (Penzer). For that edition, each page of the original edition of 1885-8 was photographed "from the negatives of which zincos [zincograph plates] were prepared, and electros [electrograph plates] from these latter were used for the printing" (ibid.). Penzer goes on to explain that the zincograph plates were sold by the Burton Society to the Burton Club around 1903-4. "The Arabian Nights had been an important part of Burton's life for decades. In 1882 he began translating it in earnest. Although there were other translations of the Nights in English, Burton's was distinguished by his retention of the sexual content of the original Arabic versions, while his extensive footnotes drew on a lifetime of travel and research. Unable to get an acceptable offer from a publisher, he decided to print it himself, a venture that must have seemed more speculative than any of his searches for gold. He and Isabel announced a limited subscription of 1000 copies, hoping for 500 responses; to their surprise, they received 2000, but kept their word and accepted only 1000. At last Burton's literary efforts were rewarded with financial success, as he got 16,000 guineas from an outlay of 6000. Despite its deliberately archaic style, The book of the thousand nights and a night. has become the pre-eminent English translation of the Middle Eastern classic. It is the keystone of Burton's literary reputation" (ODNB). Sets retaining the original "manuscript" are certainly rare; that which appeared at Christie's in 1995 had had the manuscript removed; the only other set in auction records, apparently retaining the MS, appeared in 1928. See Penzer p. 126 et seq. (for Burton Club editions). 16 vols, large octavo. Photogravure frontispieces and plates after Letchford, Lalauze, Batten, Gavarni, and others, including frontispiece portrait in vol. I in two states (coloured and uncoloured) after the portrait by Sir Frederick Leighton, captioned tissue guards. Original green morocco, spines lettered in gilt, richly gilt in spine compartments within raised bands, elaborate arabesque gilt design to covers incorporating Burton's name in Arabic, gilt concentric rules to turn-ins, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Very light rubbing at extremities and toning to endpapers, front free endpaper of Vol. II of Supplemental Nights superficially cracked. An excellent, bright, square set, the gilt bright, and contents clean and partly unopened.