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Lot 57

Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023 7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$400 - 600
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$567
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Pogany, Willy] Kúnos, Ignácz [editor] Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., (1913). First American edition. 4to. (xii), (363), (1) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 15 colored plates, mounted on heavy gray paper, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's light brown pictorial cloth, stamped in black, ochre, and gray-blue; all edges trimmed, fore- and bottom edges foxed, a few pages unopened; illustrated endpapers; some foxing to prelims, and near edges throughout; from the library of Richard Manney and with his book-plate on verso of front free endpaper, old bookseller's ticket mounted above same; in full gray goatskin slip case, stamped in blind and in gilt, with green morocco spine label, and cloth chemise;

A near-fine copy of this beautifully designed and illustrated title, from the important rare book collection of Richard Manney, sold by Sotheby's, New York, in October of 1991.

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