Contes Arabes Modernes

by Guillaume Spitta-Bey, Ed

$175 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Leide; Paris: E. J. Brill; Maisonneuve & Cie, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, 2 , 224, 2 pp. Original 3/4 morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Collection of 12 remarkable Arabic folk tales compiled and translated by Guillaume Spitta-Bey. Some rubbing with sporadic abrasion along edges of binding. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front cover. Upper

• Binding: Leather

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