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New York: Brentano's. Limited edition. Cloth. Fair. Edmund Dulac. Limited edition of 675, of which this is 417. Folio, 150 pp., bound in cloth with decorated paper boards. Spine attached on one side only, board tips and edges rubbed through, PLATES MISSING. A good copy for reading.
Kingdom of the Pearl, The by DULAC, Edmund; ROSENTHAL, Léonard
by DULAC, Edmund; ROSENTHAL, Léonard
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Kingdom of the Pearl, The
by DULAC, Edmund; ROSENTHAL, Léonard
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New York: Brentano's, 1925. One of 100 Copies Signed by Edmund Dulac
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[DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. ROSENTHAL, Léonard. The Kingdom of the Pearl. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. New York: Brentano's [n.d., 1925].
American deluxe limited edition (first published with Dulac illustrations in French in 1920 with title: Au Royaume de la Perle). One of 100 copies numbered and signed by the artist (this copy being No. 48), out of a total edition of 775 copies "for sale in the United States of America"). Large quarto (11 15/16 x 9 5/8 inches; 303 x 243 mm.). [12], 150, [1], [1, printer's imprint] pp. Ten mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards.
Original quarter vellum over cream paper boards. Front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative endpapers. A fine copy in the original printed dust jacket. From the renowned collection of Estelle Doheny, with her neat leather book-plate on front paste-down.
"Au Royaume de la Perle was first published in Paris (by Payot) in 1919 without benefit of the Dulac illustrations which the author Mr. Rosenthal so eagerly sought. But when, in 1920, Dulac found time to produce 10 pictures, Mr. Rosenthal not only purchased the water colours, but had another publisher, Piazza of Paris, publish a 1,500-copy new edition of his ‘Perle' book with the Dulac illustrations. Also Dulac reveals in a reply to a Mr. Carroll of Massachusetts who hoped to buy one of the ‘Pearl' illustrations that Mr. Rosenthal also purchased the copyright to the 10 pictures. However Mr. Rosenthal did allow his book with Dulac pictures and in English translation to be published in England by The Nisbet Publishing House...The English edition, although praised by The Times Literary critic as Dulac ‘at his best' and ‘fantastically Persian,' was not a commercial success. In order to make use of the 775 sheets remaining from 1,550 printed for the English edition, arrangements were made in 1925 to market an edition through Brentano's, booksellers in New York...The ‘Pearl' pictures indeed display a ripening of a Dulac style first seen in Sindbad the Sailor, employed in some of his Fairy Book pictures and developed fully in The Tanglewood Tales. It is a Persian miniature style, but made quite his own...His plates, truly genius, do much to bring a fanciful touch to the otherwise stark exposition of a treatise on pearls" (Hughey).
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In the Original Printed Dust Jacket
[DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. ROSENTHAL, Léonard. The Kingdom of the Pearl. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. New York: Brentano's [n.d., 1925].
American deluxe limited edition (first published with Dulac illustrations in French in 1920 with title: Au Royaume de la Perle). One of 100 copies numbered and signed by the artist (this copy being No. 48), out of a total edition of 775 copies "for sale in the United States of America"). Large quarto (11 15/16 x 9 5/8 inches; 303 x 243 mm.). [12], 150, [1], [1, printer's imprint] pp. Ten mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards.
Original quarter vellum over cream paper boards. Front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative endpapers. A fine copy in the original printed dust jacket. From the renowned collection of Estelle Doheny, with her neat leather book-plate on front paste-down.
"Au Royaume de la Perle was first published in Paris (by Payot) in 1919 without benefit of the Dulac illustrations which the author Mr. Rosenthal so eagerly sought. But when, in 1920, Dulac found time to produce 10 pictures, Mr. Rosenthal not only purchased the water colours, but had another publisher, Piazza of Paris, publish a 1,500-copy new edition of his ‘Perle' book with the Dulac illustrations. Also Dulac reveals in a reply to a Mr. Carroll of Massachusetts who hoped to buy one of the ‘Pearl' illustrations that Mr. Rosenthal also purchased the copyright to the 10 pictures. However Mr. Rosenthal did allow his book with Dulac pictures and in English translation to be published in England by The Nisbet Publishing House...The English edition, although praised by The Times Literary critic as Dulac ‘at his best' and ‘fantastically Persian,' was not a commercial success. In order to make use of the 775 sheets remaining from 1,550 printed for the English edition, arrangements were made in 1925 to market an edition through Brentano's, booksellers in New York...The ‘Pearl' pictures indeed display a ripening of a Dulac style first seen in Sindbad the Sailor, employed in some of his Fairy Book pictures and developed fully in The Tanglewood Tales. It is a Persian miniature style, but made quite his own...His plates, truly genius, do much to bring a fanciful touch to the otherwise stark exposition of a treatise on pearls" (Hughey).
Hughey 54d.
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THE KINGDOM OF THE PEARL. Limited Edition
by Rosenthal, Leonard. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac
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Nisbet & Co, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Copy #594 of only 675 numbered copies issued. 10 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. A Very Good copy in the original white cloth over grey boards printed in silver, with paper label on the front cover, spine stampe in gilt (some smudging and light wear to cloth; boards rubbed at corners, pen note on the back of the cloth near the spine (see image)). A scarce work on Pearls, beautifully illustrated by Dulac.
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Brentano's, 1/1/1921. Hardcover. Good. Limited edition, no. 23 of 675 copies. Publisher's 1/4 white cloth of black and silver pictorial boards. 150 pages, 10 leaves of mounted color illustration plates; 30 cm. Top edge gilt. Light shelf wear. Bump on cover edge. Hughey 54e; Sinkakas 5559. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Kingdom of the Pearl, The
by Rosenthal, Leonard/Edmund Dulac
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New York: Brentano's, 1921. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 151 pages. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Top edge gilt. Gilt title on white cloth spine, front cover with sea motif in silver over gray paper. Title on pastedown in upper right corner of front cover. Hand numbered #93 of 675 copies. Features 10 full color tipped-in plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Cover corners with light/moderate rubbing. Hinges intact but tender. Nice copy. Record # 612389
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The Kingdom of the Pearl
by Leonard Rosenthal; Edmund Dulac [illus.]
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New York: Brentano's, 1925. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Brentano's, [1925]. First U.S. Trade Edition, printed in a run of 675 copies, of which this is #312. Quarto. 151 pp. 10 color plates by Dulac, mounted on white art paper, framed with gray-green lines, with tissue guards printed at top with black letterpress. Dust jacket of tan paper printed in lavender with geometric seaweed design. Half white cloth with grey papered boards, stamped in silver with design of stylized waves and sea shells, spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt; geometric seaweed endpapers. Dust jacket chipped with several short closed tears and rubbed along edges with some unfortunate dampstaining along spine, and a longer 5" tear to front joint starting at bottom edge. Large dampstain to bottom quarter of back board extending up along fore-edge, with some runs and ripples to paper and outward bowing toward fore-edge. Boards otherwise lightly edgeworn with exposure to bottom edge near corners. Binding is sound. Bookseller…
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The Kingdom Of The Pearl
by Rosenthal, Leonard, Illustrated By Edmund Dulac
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London Uk: Nisbet, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12 1/4" Tall. 151 Pp. First Edition, #152 Of 675 Copies For The Uk, Bound In Quarter Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt, Over Illustrated Boards With Printed Paper Label, Printed On Thick, High Quality Paper. Color Plates Tipped In. All Gilt Still Brilliant. Very Good, Wear To Boards With Fraying At Edges, Some Browning To Spine Cloth. Binding Tight, Decorated Endpapers Immaculate, Very Nice Illustrated Engraved Bookplate Of E. Howard Paget, 1926. Quite Scarce.
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The Kingdom of the Pearl, illustrated by Edmund Dulac
by Rosenthal, Leonard; Edmund Dulac, illustrations
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New York: Brentano's, 1920. Hardcover. Near Fine/fair. American issue, no date but c. 1920, no. 387 of 675 copies, quarto, white cloth-backed pictorial gray boards in pictorial dust jacket, gilt titled on spine, pearl-gray endpapers, 151 pp, 10 mounted plates by Dulac. Book is nearly fine, very bright and crisp, owner's bookplate on both front and rear flyleaves, name sticker on front pastedown, lightest rubbing to corners, spine particularly bright and white, dust jacket fair to good only, with only 25 percent of spine paper left, some light edge chipping to front and rear panels of jacket.
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THE KINGDOM OF THE PEARL
by Rosenthal, Léonard; Dulac, Edmund [Illustrator]
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London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd, [1925]. Limited edition #88/675. Hardcover. Quarto, 150 page. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's quarter white cloth over gray paper boards with gilt titling to spine. Front board stamped in silver with a design of stylized waves and sea shells with white paper label bearing gray titling. Bumping to head and tail of spine and to corners. Bound with grey pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Ten color plates tipped in with printed tissue guards, includes frontispiece, in excellent condition. Mild foxing throughout. "Of this edition 675 copies have been printed for sale in the British Empire, of which this is no. 88." DC Consignment. Shelved in Case 14. 1262171. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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The Kingdom of the Pearl.
by DULAC, Edmund (illus.); ROSENTHAL, Léonard
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New York: Brentano's,, [1925]. Limited US edition, number 559 of 675 copies. Léonard Rosenthal was a famed Parisian jeweller who personally commissioned Dulac's illustrations; they first appeared in a French edition in 1920. As noted by Dulac's bibliographer, "[Dulac's] plates, truly genius, do much to bring a fanciful touch to the otherwise stark exposition of a treatise on pearls... There is whimsy, too, in the personalities imparted to the various species of marine life that are worked into the designs. Dulac had always enjoyed ornamenting the total book in which his plates appeared, producing end papers, title page designs, covers, etc. But here he outdid himself." Large quarto. Original quarter cloth and grey boards, spine lettered and with pictorial decoration in gilt, front cover with pictorial decoration and printed label, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and nine colour plates with printed tissue-guards. Corners and lower extremities worn, occasional light…
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The Kingdom of the Pearl.
by ROSENTHAL, Leonard. DULAC, Edmund (illus.)
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New York:: Brentano's,, n.d.. No. 644 of 675 copies.. original vellum-backed decorated boards in dust jacket.. Slightest of bumping at head and tail of spine, otherwise a bright, fresh copy in dust jacket with a few neat tissue repairs at folds; a chip, 1-1/2" deep, at the head of the spine, and a tanned and creased backstrip.. Folio,. With tipped-in color illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
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