Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
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Overview:
- Title: Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
- Author: uncredited
- Year: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 9780141395036
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Price: £25.00
- Pages: xliii+447
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
- Notes:
- Fourth printing from number line, no publication date provided for this printing.
- Translated from the Arabic by Malcolm C. Lyons.
- Cover only has "The First English Translation of a Medieval Arab Fantasy Collection".
- Original Arabic story contents are of unknown date (estimated between the 10th and 16th centuries) and unknown authorship, and English translations (dated 2014) are not provided with their original Arabic titles.
- Interior art on the front endpapers also appears reversed on the back endpapers.
- All stories are preceded with numbers as "Tale One" to "Tale Eighteen".
- Robert Irwin is credited for 'Introduction', 'Further Reading' and 'Glossary' on the copyright page only.
- Publication has a white page-marker.
- Also priced $30.00 and C$34.95, on barcoded price sticker only, attached to lower left of the back cover.