The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales
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Overview:
- Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora A. Smith
- Year: 1909
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Price: $2.50
- Pages: xii+339+[24]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- Notes: From copyright page:
- "Copyright, 1909, by Charles Scribner's Sons"
- "Published October, 1909"
- Interior art includes 12 full color plates from drawings in colors by Maxfield Parrish (the 1923 edition has fewer per Worldcat) and Full color plates are not numbered. They are the "+[24]" in the page count (counting front and back of each inserted plate). Illustrations listed on pp.xi-xii by story and caption
- Illustrated endpapers are colored in gold spot color on a black and white illustration (both front and back are the same image)
- Title page is colored in medium blue spot color on a black and white illustration
- The Library of Congress has online copies in their digital rare books collection which can be accessed via links from LCCN.
- HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) (catalog record) provides full view of three copies, two with original cover
- Price from advertisement by the publisher N-Y Tribune 1909-10-23 p8 "Charles Scribner's Sons Publish To-day"; "Twelve[sic] of these famous stories have been fascinatingly retold ..."
- -- HDL e-copy shows 10 stories with two illustrations each for Prince Agib and Sinbad