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The Book of the 1000 Nights & a Night. R. Burton, 1899

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The Book of the 1000 Nights & a Night. R. Burton, 1899

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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights.

Translated by Richard F. Burton.

Privately Published by Burton Society, Denver, CO, 1899 for Society Private Subscribers Only.

Nine volumes (1-9) decorated and lettered in gold, four volumes (1, 4, 5, 6) titled Supplemental Nights, in silver.

First edition thus, limited to 1000 sets for private circulation among the members of the Burton Society. Reissue of 1885 Kamashastra Society edition with the same cover design.

Frontispiece decoration in each volume, black & white illustrations throughout. Publishers original black cloth decorated & lettered in gold and silver. Weinberg Family Ex Libris on the endpapers.

Estate of Hyman & Marjorie Weinberg.

Shipping is based on weight of 40 lbs. Domestic Insured USPS Media rate of $40 within the contiguous US. International rate determined by destination.

Condition

VG+ set. Light fading to the spine. Covers lettering is somewhat rubbed, a little wear to spines heads & tales. Interior is clean and crisp, the majority of pages uncut. Clean unmarked set.

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