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![Image for The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]](/assets/images/product/2282238.jpg "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]")
By: Burton, R.F. [Richard Francis]; Smithers, Leonard C.
Price: $1,500.00 $1,200.00
Publisher: H.S. Nichols & Co.: 1894
Seller ID: 2282238
First Smithers edition, also called the Library Edition (Penzler p. 117-123). Minor cosmetic wear, ink name on front endpaper of each volume, front hinge of first volume just beginning to weaken. 1894 Hard Cover. Complete in twelve volumes, a reissue of the 1885 Benares edition (which was printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only), edited by Leonard C. Smithers. 8vo. According to the preface, In Lady Burton's edition, which was a reprint of the firs... View more info
![Image for The Arabian Nights Entertainments and the Notes Upon Them [Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne]](/assets/images/product/2271630.jpg "The Arabian Nights Entertainments and the Notes Upon Them [Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne]")
By: Burton, Richard; Torrens, Henry; Lane, Edward; Payne, John
Price: $45.00 $36.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1954
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2271630
Minimal cosmetic wear. 1954 Full-Leather. xi, [3], 674, plus unpaginated notes section. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Comprises several versions of translation and includes illustrations by Arthur Szyk. View more info
![Image for The Arabian Nights Entertainments and the Notes Upon Them [Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne] (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)](/assets/images/product/2280927.jpg "The Arabian Nights Entertainments and the Notes Upon Them [Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne] (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)")
By: Burton, Richard; Torrens, Henry; Lane, Edward; Payne, John
Price: $45.00 $36.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1981
Seller ID: 2280927
A couple very faint scuffs to gilt edges, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1981 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [3], 674, plus unpaginated notes section. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Comprises several versions of translation and includes illustrations by Arthur Szyk. View more info
By: Erman, Adolf; Simpson, William K.
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: 1966
Seller ID: 2288071
Spine lightly toned, two light red marks on page base. 1966 Trade Paperback. lxxii, 318, 10 pp. CONTENTS: Periodical Abbreviations; Introduction to the Torchbook Edition: The Study of Egyptian Literature, 1925-1965; Selective Bibliography, 1925-1965; Translator's Preface; Author's Preface; Outline of Egyptian History; By Way of Introduction: The Development of the Literature - The Learned Scribes - Singers and Story-Tellers - The Forms of the Poetry - Writing and Books -... View more info
By: Gibran, Kahlil
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1969
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2150816
83rd printing. Highlighting in text, ink gift note dated January 1970 on front endpaper, jacket toned. Good. 1969 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 96 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt titles & decorations. Includes illustrations by author. Gibran's famous inspirational collection of verse, which gained acceptance in the counter-culture movement, and made Gibran one of the best-selling poets of all time. View more info
By: Gibran, Kahlil; Ghareeb, Andrew; Young, Barbara
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1981
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2020924
28th printing. Includes original jacket. Jacket price clipped.Very Good. 1981 Hard Cover. 77 pp. A collection of prose poems by the author of The Prophet. View more info
By: Gibran, Kahlil; Nahmad, H.M.
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1980
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2020929
20th printing. Includes original jacket. Jacket price clipped.Very Good. 1980 Hard Cover. 139 pp. Four fictional parables by the author of The Prophet. View more info
By: Hosseini, Khaled
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: Riverhead Books: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2202201
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 372 pp. It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating, re... View more info
By: Hosseini, Khaled
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Riverhead Books: 2003
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2202203
2nd printing. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 324 pp. Author's first novel. “I sat on a bench near a willow tree and watched a pair of kites soaring in the sky. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an afterthought, ‘There is a way to be good again.’” Now in paperback, one of the year’s international literary sensations -- a shattering story ... View more info
By: Hosseini, Khaled
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: Riverhead Books: 2008
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2282512
Lightly rubbed, one page creased. 2008 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ul... View more info
Price: $12.00 $9.60
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1961
Seller ID: 2200494
Pages toned, ink stamp to title page.Large sections missing from top and bottom edges of jacket spine, ink notation to jacket front, jacket edges rubbed. 1961 Hard Cover. xxxvi, 575 pp. ...this work covers the field of Classical Sanskrit Literature, as opposed to the Vedic Literature, the epics and the Puranas. The book is divided into three parts: Part I is general, and covers the Language; Part II, Belles-Lettres and Poetics; and Part III, Scientific Literature.Keyword... View more info
By: Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. / McLagan & Cumming, Edinburgh:
Seller ID: 2164485
Ink mark on front board, minor loss from spine head, ink owner stamp on endpapers. Unpaginated. Limp suede, gilt titles & decorations. Color plates by Willy Pogany tipped in. An attractive edition of Khayyam's classic work, with decorative script and borders. View more info
By: Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company:
Seller ID: 2283729
Spine and top edge faded, rear endpaper removed. We have more books available by this author!. 171, [5] pp. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with 12 mounted color plates (some of which are rather risque), numerous smaller mounted half-tone illustrations, and decorations by Willy Pogany. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which ther... View more info
By: Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator)
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: E.W. Porter Company, Publishers: 1897
Seller ID: 2202019
Hinges repaired, edge wear. ink gift note on front endpaper. 1897 Half-Leather. 93 pp. Half-leather, marbled boards, maroon leather spine & corners, gilt titles & leaf design, gilt top page ridge, deckled fore-edge. Includes: To Omar Khayyam by Andrew Lang; Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia by Edward Fitzgerald; Rubaiyat: Text of First Edition (1859); Text of Fourth Edition (1879); Quatrains Printed in Second Edition Only (1868); Notes. View more info
Price: $350.00 $280.00
Publisher: Charles Knight and Co.: 1839
Seller ID: 2281494
Front board of first volume loose, splits beginning at spine heads along joints of other two volumes. An attractive set that could be beautiful with some minor restoration. 1839 Half-Leather. Complete in three volumes. xxxii, [2], 618, [4]; xii, 643, [3]; xii, 763, [3] pp. 4to. Original red morocco spine and corners, marbled boards and endpapers, red edges. Illustrations with wood engravings from original designs by William Harvey throughout. One Thousand and One Nights ... View more info
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Heritage Press: 1949
Seller ID: 2196705
Includes slipcase. Sandglass number 11m laid in. Light edge wear to slipcase. 1949 Hard Cover. These tales of Sindbad of among the most beloved of all the Arabian Nights' stories. View more info
By: Pamuk, Orhan; Freely, Maureen (Translator)
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Vintage International / Random House, Inc.: 2005
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2286821
Reissue. Crease to spine. 2005 Trade Paperback. xii, 463 pp. Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism – these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn... View more info
![Image for Oriental Tales 15 Volume Set: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Now First Completely Done into English Prose and Verse, from the Original Arabic, in Nine Volumes [with] Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) Editions of the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night Not Occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work, Now First Done into English, in Three Volumes [with] Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp and Other Stories: Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp; Zein ul Asnam and the King of the Jinn: Two Stories Done into English from the Recently Discovered Arabic Text [with] Persian Letters: With Introduction and Notes, Now Completely Done into English, from the Original by Montesquieu, in One Volume [with] A Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour (Tartarian Tales) [Arabian Nights' Entertainment]](/assets/images/product/2276243.jpg "Oriental Tales 15 Volume Set: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Now First Completely Done into English Prose and Verse, from the Original Arabic, in Nine Volumes [with] Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) Editions of the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night Not Occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work, Now First Done into English, in Three Volumes [with] Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp and Other Stories: Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp; Zein ul Asnam and the King of the Jinn: Two Stories Done into English from the Recently Discovered Arabic Text [with] Persian Letters: With Introduction and Notes, Now Completely Done into English, from the Original by Montesquieu, in One Volume [with] A Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour (Tartarian Tales) [Arabian Nights' Entertainment]")
By: Payne, John; Montesquieu; Smithers, Leonard C.
Price: $350.00 $280.00
Publisher: Printed for Subscribers Only by The Athenaeum Publishing Co.: 1901
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2276243
First thus. Limited edition, #106 of 500 sets printed on laid paper and sold exclusively to subscribers. Minor loss from a couple spine labels, light stain to spine head of final volume, front hinge of first, eighth, and ninth volumes just beginning to weaken. 1901 Hard Cover. Complete in fifteen hardcover volumes. Original red cloth with paper spine labels. Comprising John Payne's complete translation from the original Arabic of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One N... View more info
By: Rushdie, Salman
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: Viking: 1989
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2206163
Reprint. Faintly rubbed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of... View more info
By: [Khayyam, Omar]; Mirza-mem'n (Zimmerman, John Stevens)
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Henry Olendorf Shepard, Chicago: 1901
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 1803576
Second edition. No jacket. Front hinge loosening, ink name on front endpaper, spine faded. 1901 Hard Cover. 131 stanzas, unpaginated. A collection of verse, most of which has been paraphrased from McCarthy's prose translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Published pseudonymously under the name 'Mirza-Mem'n' - the author's real name was John Stevens Zimmerman. Engravings and decorative borders throughout. Purple cloth, gilt titles. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the titl... View more info
