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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: London, H.S. Nichols & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 2282238

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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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 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

Seller ID: 2271630

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal cosmetic wear. 1954 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.
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Selections from the Arabian Nights (International Collectors Library)

By: Burton, Sir Richard Burton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: International Collectors Library: 1968

Seller ID: 2300973

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front joint starting. 1968 Hard Cover. iv, 472 pp. Original green leatherette hardcover binding with gold lettering & design, gilt top page ridge, green ribbon marker. Sir Richard Burton's famous translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night with modernized spelling and punctuation. Illustrated by Steele Savage.
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Arabian Nights, Volume 1 (Signet Classics)

By: Burton, Sir Richard F.; Zipes, Jack

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Signet Classic: 1991

Seller ID: 2296217

ISBN: 0451525426

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine lightly creased. 1991 Mass Market Paperback. x, 595 pp. Adapted from Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation. Bawdy and exotic, Arabian Nights, features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformations, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced into the West in 1704, the stories of The Thousand and One Nights are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions. This modern edition, based on Richard F. Burton's...
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The Arabian Nights

By: Burton, Sir Richard Francis; Lowe, Orton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The John C. Winston Company: 1924

Seller ID: 2303260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Minor general wear. 1924 Hard Cover. xv, 257 pp. Orange boards. Sixty illustrations with colored plates by Adelaide H. Bolton. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Story of Sindbad the Sailor: The First Voyage - The Second Voyage of Sindbad - The Third Voyage of Sindbad - The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad - The Sixth Voyage of Sindbad- The Seventh and Last Voyage of Sindbad; The Merchant and the Genie; The Old Man and the Hind; The Old Man and the Two Black Dogs; The Story of the Fisherman; The Further Adventures of the Fisherman; The History of the Yo...
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The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their Writings

By: Erman, Adolf; Simpson, William K.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: 1966

Seller ID: 2288071

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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By: Keith, A. Berriedale

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2200494

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By: Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. / McLagan & Cumming:

Seller ID: 2164485

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Ink mark on front board, minor loss from spine head, ink owner stamp on endpapers. We have more books available by this author!. 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.
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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

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Image for Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Translated Into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald -- A Complete Reprint of the First Edition and the Combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix Containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Translated Into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald -- A Complete Reprint of the First Edition and the Combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix Containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes

By: Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward; Untermeyer, Louis

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Random House: 1947

Seller ID: 2294591

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reissue. Lacks slipcase. 1947 Hard Cover. xxii, 149 pp. 8vo. Beautiful color illustrations by Mahmoud Sayah, decorative margins. Edited with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. 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 ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word Rubaiyat, (derived from the Arabic root word ...
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Image for The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes.

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

By: Lane, Edward William

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Charles Knight and Co.: 1839

Seller ID: 2281494

Binding: Half-Leather

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...
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The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor

By: Mathers, E. Powys

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Heritage Press: 1949

Seller ID: 2196705

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Snow: A Novel

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

Price: $7.00

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

Seller ID: 2286821

ISBN: 0375706860

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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The Satanic Verses

By: Rushdie, Salman

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking: 1989

Seller ID: 2206163

ISBN: 0670825379

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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The Rubaiyat of Mirza-Mem'n

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

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Henry Olendorf Shepard: 1901

Seller ID: 2300634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned. 1901 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. 131 stanzas. 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 protected with captioned tissue guards, decorative borders throughout. Purple cloth with beveled edges, 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 langu...
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Translated from the Arabic. A New and Complete Edition. [The Thousand and One Nights]

By: [Lane, Edward]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: William P. Nimmo: 1870

Seller ID: 2303154

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1870 Hard Cover. 540 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Two-column format. Over 100 woodcuts from illustrations by S.J. Groves. Though no translator is credited, this is most likely an Edward Lane translation given the date -- Payne and Burton would not release their versions until the 1880s, and both changed the title from The Arabian Nights Entertainments to slightly different forms of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
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