Description
First edition, first printing of A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture by Terry Ramsaye, with the scarce slipcase.
Octavo, [2 volumes], lxx, [2], 400pp; 401-868pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spines with decorative gilt image on front covers. The first printing, with no additional printings mentioned. Top edges gilt, untrimmed fore edges. Both volumes have frontispiece portraits with tissue covers and complete with 103 illustrations. Solid binding, clean text block. Light sunning to both spines, a few points of wear to cloth covers. Previous owners’ bookplate on the front free endpaper of both volumes. Housed in the publisher’s scarce slipcase, notable wear to boards, delicate hinges, shelf wear to all panels.
An attractive example of this classic work on the early history of the motion picture industry.
