The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: Volume IX by Burton, Richard - 1907

London and New York: The Burton Club. VG-. 1907. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited edition. This volume is #343 of 1000 sets printed for private subscribers of the The Burton Club. Bound in gray cloth with a paper t itle label on the spine. Black & white plates. Top edge gilt. A VG- co py. The spine is heavily darkened from dust soiling. and the paper tit le label is faded and has tiny edge chips. Tiny bumps to the book's co rners. Dusting to the covers. Former owner's book plate on front endpa per. Some unopened page edges are starting to fray. Contents clean, ti ght. Volume Five only. .

The Arabian Nights Entertainments: 1962 Heritage Club 3 volume set in individual solid black slipcases. Complete Burton Translation with the Complete Burton Notes. Red foliage on black boards with gilt lettering on white spines. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Pastedown glue has yellowed along front and rear hinges. The sale price accomodates 90% of the shipping cost for these 3 vols. Notes and index in vol 6 only.

Norwalk CT: The Easton Press, 1994. Collector's Edition. leather. near fine/no jacket. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 " Seventeen Volume set complete. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights. "Bound in Genuine Leather". all edges gilt. raised bands. ornate gilt and black cover design. blank Easton Press unused bookplate laid in. slight marring to gilt page edges on some volumes. shipping will be extra for this large and heavy set. Priority and international shipping will be costly.

London: H. S. Nichols, Ltd., 1897, 1897. 12 vols., 10-5/16" x 6-7/8", translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton, reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers, Illustrated with a Series of Seventy-one Original Illustrations Reproduced From the Original Pictures in Oils Specially Painted by Albert Letchford, bound in the publisher's deluxe binding of 1/2 dark blue morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, "Kamashastra Edition" gilt to the foot of the spines, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut as issued, internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, no previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplates, spines slightly sunned otherwise A VERY GOOD SET. (For a discussion of the "Illustrated Library Edition" according to Penzer's designation (see p. 117-122 of the bibliography.) Penzer makes no mention of this binding in his bibliography. This edition conforms to the "Illustrated… Read More