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

Publisher: H.S. Nichols & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 2282238

Condition: Near Fine

First Smithers edition, also called the Library Edition (Penzer 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 first ten volumes only of the original issue, it was thought advisable to omit no fewer than 215 pages; in this edition, which com... View more info

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

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1954

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2271630

Condition: Near Fine

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

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

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2280927

Condition: Near Fine

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

The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their Writings

By: Erman, Adolf; Simpson, William K.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: 1966

Seller ID: 2288071

Condition: Very Good

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 - Our Understanding of Egyptian Texts; From the Oldest Poetry: From the Pyramid Texts - To the Crowns - Morning Hymns - Narrat... View more info

The Prophet

By: Gibran, Kahlil

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1969

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2150816

Condition: Good

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

Prose Poems

By: Gibran, Kahlil; Ghareeb, Andrew; Young, Barbara

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1981

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2020924

Condition: Very Good

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

Spirits Rebellious

By: Gibran, Kahlil; Nahmad, H.M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1980

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2020929

Condition: Very Good

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

A Thousand Splendid Suns

By: Hosseini, Khaled

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: 2008

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2282512

ISBN: 159448385X

Condition: Good

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 ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Ho... View more info

A History of Sanskrit Literature

By: Keith, A. Berriedale

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2200494

Condition: Good

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.Keywords: HISTORY SANSKRIT LITERATURE LANGUAGE REFERENCE LITERARY CRITICISM View more info

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By: Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. / McLagan & Cumming, Edinburgh:

Seller ID: 2164485

Condition: Very Good

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

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse

By: Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company:

Seller ID: 2283729

Condition: Very Good

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 there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1123), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ru... View more info

The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copius Notes.

By: Lane, Edward William

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Charles Knight and Co.: 1839

Seller ID: 2281494

Condition: Good

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 (Arabic: Kitab 'alf layla wa-layla; Persian: Hezar-o yek šab) is a collection of folk tales and other stories. It is often k... View more info

The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor

By: Mathers, E. Powys

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Heritage Press: 1949

Seller ID: 2196705

Condition: Very Good

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

Snow: A Novel

By: Pamuk, Orhan; Freely, Maureen (Translator)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Vintage International / Random House, Inc.: 2005

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2286821

ISBN: 0375706860

Condition: Good

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 by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himse... View more info

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

Publisher: Printed for Subscribers Only by The Athenaeum Publishing Co.: 1901

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 2276243

Condition: Very Good

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 Night, often referred to as The Arabian Nights or Arabian Nights' Entertainment, which were collected stories purportedly told... View more info

The Satanic Verses

By: Rushdie, Salman

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking: 1989

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2206163

Condition: Very Good

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 what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the i... View more info

The Rubaiyat of Mirza-Mem'n

By: [Khayyam, Omar]; Mirza-mem'n (Zimmerman, John Stevens)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Henry Olendorf Shepard, Chicago: 1901

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 1803576

Condition: Good

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 title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of w... View more info