THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: THEIR BEST-KNOWN TALES
Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin; Nora A. Smith. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish.
Stock no. 1816549
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1930. Good condition.

Black cloth, gilt title to spine and large pictorial onlay to front. Pictorial endpapers. 9 colour plates. xii and 339 pages. Boards a little marked & rubbed at corners. Rear spine edge starting to split. '19 Nov 1953' rubber stamped in ink to front endpaper. Name & class in ink to first blank page. Foxing throughout and a general grubby appearance of contents. All plates present. Last few pages of book were untrimmed and have been opened carelessly with loss to vertical margins (text not affected).

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STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1816497
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st thus 1938. Almost very good condition.

Hodder & Stoughton's Colour Books. Contents are four stories: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Story of the Magic Horse; Sinbad the Sailor; and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Grey cloth with red titles and vignettes to front cover and spine. Grey endpapers. 12 colour plates. 222 pages. Spine browned, boards marked. Inscription in ink in belongs to box. Foxing to contents. A musty odour present. All plates present.

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TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
No author listed. Illustrated by A.E. Jackson.
Stock no. 2127181
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1941. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Light brown cloth with black titles and pictorial onlay of a scene in Aladdin to front. Pictorial endpapers. 48 colour plates. Stories included are: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; Sinbad the Sailor; Aladdin: or the Wonderful Lamp; The Sleeper Awakened; The Enchanted Horse; and The Talkative Barber. Some browning to spine. A few marks to covers. Large inscription to verso of frontis. Pencil and pencil colour inscription to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is torn and chipped, with a large piece of loss to bottom edge of front panel; other smaller pieces of loss to corners. Wrapper is also creased and worn. Numbers written in colour to front flap. All plates present.

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STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2126736
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1941. Almost very good condition.

Hodder & Stoughton's Colour Books. Contents are four stories: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Story of the Magic Horse; Sinbad the Sailor; and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Grey cloth with red titles and vignettes to front cover and spine. Grey endpapers. 12 colour plates. 222 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Vertical crease to rear cover. Some grubby marks and browning to covers. Inscriptions in ink to prelims. Some foxing throughout; heaviest to endpapers and outer page edges. All plates present.

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STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1317441
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st thus 1938. Very good condition.

Hodder & Stoughton's Colour Books. Contents are four stories: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Story of the Magic Horse; Sinbad the Sailor; and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Grey cloth with red titles and vignettes to front cover and spine. Grey endpapers. 12 colour plates. 222 pages. Spine and corners bumped, spine foxed. Covers slightly grubby with a couple of small dents to edge of rear cover and a small rubbed patch to top of front cover. Name plate to front pastedown. Inscription in pencil to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to contents. Faint smell of tobacco(?) to contents.

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STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2123545
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Boots the Chemists. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Brown cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover. 20 beautiful tipped-in colour plates. 319 pages. Published for Boots The Chemist. Some light wear to cover corners and edges. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. All plates present. Wrapper is unevenly faded with large tears and chips; a little loss; creased with a few splash marks.

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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
No author listed. Illustrated by Edward J. Detmold.
Stock no. 1609202
Published by Folio Society. 2007. Very good condition.

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. White cloth, gilt titles and decoration. Colour plates. Spine darkened, a little rubbing to covers. Corner creasing to a couple of pages but otherwise contents are near fine. Contained in red slipcase which has several indentation marks to one panel.

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SINBAD THE SAILOR
No author listed.
Stock no. 1507216
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Slightly better than good condition.

One chapter for each of his seven voyages. Red cloth covers with green and black titles and pictorial onlay. 8.5 x 6.5". 4 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 62 pages plus 1 page book list. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Some uneven darkening to covers and spine, slight wear to edge of onlay, light pen marks to rear cover. Endpapers browned. A few grubby marks and a little browning/foxing to contents. All plates present, text of page opposite is visible in borders of plates.

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STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1507211
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Boots the Chemists. circa 1930. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover. 20 beautiful tipped-in colour plates. 319 pages. Published for Boots The Chemist. Spine and corners bumped and worn. A few small marks to covers. Damage to front pastedown where writing has been erased, name in ink alongside. Pale orange stains to front and rear endpaper. Foxing and some light browning, mainly to endpapers, prelims and page edges. Contents generally clean. All plates present, erased pencil writing to mount of one plate.

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PRINCESS BADOURA
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2119790
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green endpapers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly coloured plates. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine is browned. A little bumping to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some light page finger markings. All plates present.

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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
No author listed. Illustrated by A.E. Jackson.
Stock no. 1505115
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd.. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Green cloth spine, pictorial boards. 24 colour plates. The Sunshine Series. Top of spine bumped. Slight wear to corners. Front endpaper is MISSING. Browning to rear endpapers and half-title page. A couple of hinges starting to crack. Heavy foxing to page edges otherwise contents generally clean. All plates present. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with a few small tears. Area of loss from rear edge of spine, tape stuck over loss on verso. Slightly grubby.

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ALADDIN AND PUSS IN BOOTS
No author listed. Illustrated by Eugenie Richards.
Stock no. 1315012
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Two stories in one volume. Tall format (15 x 8.5"). Brown cloth with pictorial onlay and gilt title to front. Black endpapers. Full-page colour and b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers are a little grubby, scratch marks to onlay and mark along front edge of spine. Joints cracked. Name in ink to title-page. Page browning and grubby fingermarks to page margins throughout. Some small margin tears.

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