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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: THEIR BEST KNOWN TALES
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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: THEIR BEST KNOWN TALES

by Wiggin, Kate Douglas and Nora A. Smith (Editors) and Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Maxfield Parrish. Quarto. 9 1/4 in. x 7 in. Black cloth-covered boards with 8 in. x 6 1/2 in.front pastedown image by Maxfield Parrish to front board. One lightly bumped corner, else bright and tight. Decorated three-color endpapers, also by Parrish. Previous owner's name in ink, spanning across both front endpapers. With nine, stunning, full-page color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Dustjacket shows several light stain spots, general edgewear, several closed tears, and a quarter-inch chip from top of (dustjacket) spine. P. Contains: 1) The Talking Bird, The Singing Tree and The Golden Water; 2) The Story of The Fisherman and The Genie; 3) The History of The Young King of The Black Isles; 4) The Story of Gulnare of The Sea; 5) The Story of Aladdin; or The Wonderful Lamp; 6) The Story of Prince Agib; 7) The Story of The City of Brass; 8) The Story of Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves; 9) The History of Codadad and… Read More
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FABLES CHOISIES, MISES EN VERS (4 Volumes, Complete); (4 tomes, Complet)
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FABLES CHOISIES, MISES EN VERS (4 Volumes, Complete); (4 tomes, Complet)

by De La Fontaine, J.

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A. Bouillon: Aux Depens De La Societe Typographique, 1776. Leather-bound. Fair. IN FRENCH. Francais. Octavos. Tree calf with gilt-roll border to both boards. NOTE: Considerable scuffing, wear, rubbing to extremities, bent corners, flaking and cracking to surface leather on spines. Front board of Volume I detaching, (but still attached). For all this, the set is still solidly bound. Marbling to all edges. Red stone marbled endpapers with deep blue veining. Elaborate ex-libris affixed to each pastedown endpaper: "Ex-Libris de M.elle Charlotte Warren." 250 separate fables, in verse and 248 lovely, intricate engravings throughout the four volumes. The set belonged to Charlotte Augusta Greenough (Tooker?) Warren (1885 - 1957) "...Charlotte was a director of the Redwood Library. She devoted herself to finding and returning books that had been brought from England in 1747 for the library's first collection. Her own interest was in French books and manuscripts, and she built one of the most extensive… Read More
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