Description
Signed limited edition of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp by Arthur Ransome, with illustrations by T. Mackenzie. In the publisher’s original dust jacket!
Folio, [unpaginated]. Cream buckram, title in gilt on spine. Front cover embellished with gilt trim, title, and silhouette. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, touch of wear to corners, a near fine piece. In the scarce matching dust jacket, title and illustration in gilt on front panel. A few small losses and short closed tears to top edge, a very good example. Complete with twelve full-color plates mounted to heavy cardstock, including frontispiece.
(Hammond, Ransome A19a)
One of 250 signed copies, this one numbered 150. Signed by the illustrator, T. Mackenzie, on the limitation page.
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp by Arthur Ransome is a retelling of the classic Middle Eastern folktale from One Thousand and One Nights.