Parrish, Maxfield. (1870 - 1966) [Wiggin, Kate Douglas. & Smith, Nora A. (Editors). "The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales". New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 1919.
Quarto. 9 1/4 in. x 7 in. Black cloth-covered boards with 8 in. x 6 1/2 in. front pastedown image by Maxfield Parrish to front board. Decorated three-color endpapers, also by Parrish and with twelve stunning, full-page color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Contains: 1) The Talking Bird, The Singing Tree and The Golden Water; 2) The Story of The Fisherman and The Genie; 3) The History of The Young King of The Black Isles; 4) The Story of Gulnare of The Sea; 5) The Story of Aladdin; or The Wonderful Lamp; 6) The Story of Prince Agib; 7) The Story of The City of Brass; 8) The Story of Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves; 9) The History of Codadad and His Brothers; 10) The Story of Sinbad The Voyager. Discoloration and wear to spine; small area of staining to the right edge of a few early page, otherwise fine throughout, and with inscription to half title in an unknown hand to the poet Frank Bidart "For Frank - with lots of love, Alice / 12 Sept 1978...from the attic of my past."
From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.
Parrish, Maxfield. (1870 - 1966) [Wiggin, Kate Douglas. & Smith, Nora A. (Editors). "The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales". New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 1919.
Quarto. 9 1/4 in. x 7 in. Black cloth-covered boards with 8 in. x 6 1/2 in. front pastedown image by Maxfield Parrish to front board. Decorated three-color endpapers, also by Parrish and with twelve stunning, full-page color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Contains: 1) The Talking Bird, The Singing Tree and The Golden Water; 2) The Story of The Fisherman and The Genie; 3) The History of The Young King of The Black Isles; 4) The Story of Gulnare of The Sea; 5) The Story of Aladdin; or The Wonderful Lamp; 6) The Story of Prince Agib; 7) The Story of The City of Brass; 8) The Story of Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves; 9) The History of Codadad and His Brothers; 10) The Story of Sinbad The Voyager. Discoloration and wear to spine; small area of staining to the right edge of a few early page, otherwise fine throughout, and with inscription to half title in an unknown hand to the poet Frank Bidart "For Frank - with lots of love, Alice / 12 Sept 1978...from the attic of my past."
From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.