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By: Burton, Sir Richard Francis
Price: $12.00
Publisher: The John C. Winston Company: 1920
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2116536
Text pages toned (plates not affected). No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 1920 Hard Cover. xi, 256 pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece & plates, and black & white illustrations, by Adelaide H. Bolton. A selection of stories from the collection of Middle Eastern folklore and literature known as One Thousand and One Nights. View more info
By: Burton, Sir Richard Francis
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Children's Classics: 1986
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2267142
First thus. Smudge on page base, ink name on front endpaper. 1986 Hard Cover. xv, 298, [1] pp. An illustrated collection of twenty-six stories from the Arabian Nights, including those of Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin, and lesser known characters. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations by Rene Bull throughout. View more info
By: Gibran, Kahlil
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Borzoi Books: 1931
Seller ID: 2119151
Borzoi edition, stated year 1931. Edge wear and rubbing to jacket.Good. We have more books available by this author!. 40 pp. Gibran's powerful poetry and drawings evoke from humans the deepest impulses of our hearts and minds. View more info
By: Gibran, Kahlil
Price: $10.00
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: $9.00
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: $9.00
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
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
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
Price: $75.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1996
Seller ID: 2268774
From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name in black ink on front flyleaf. 1996 Full-Leather. 113, [7] pp. Full blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A story from the famous work The Arabian Nights, which consisted of numerous stories originally translated into English by Sir Richard Burton. This edition is retold by Laurence Housman, with color illustrations by Edmund Dula... View more info
By: Imber, Naphtali Herz; Kabakoff, Jacob (Editor)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Herzl Press / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 1985
Seller ID: 1832815
Spine faded, lightly rubbed & toned. 1985 Hard Cover. 338 pp. A collection of writings by the Jewish poet who composed the lyrics to the Israeli national anthem. View more info
Price: $12.00
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
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By: Khayam, Abolfat' H Ghia'th-e-Din Ebrahim [Khayyam, Omar]
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Tahrir Iran Co. 'Kashani Bros.', Teheran: 1955
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2021406
Includes original jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with minor tears.Good. 1955 Hard Cover. lvi, 306 pp. English, French, German, and original Arabic text. Color plates throughout. An interesting Iranian edition of Omar Khayyam's classic Rubaiyat. View more info
By: Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward
Price: $35.00
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 (Translator)
Price: $30.00
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: $5.00
Publisher: Reader's Digest: 1991
Seller ID: 2267897
Insert laid in. An exceptional copy. 1991 Hard Cover. The famous tale of a young woman who must tell interesting stories to avoid execution. View more info
Price: $15.00
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: Rushdie, Salman
Price: $8.00
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: $45.00
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
