Buy this book on-line ALDERSON, BRIAN: : THE ARABIAN NIGHTS OR TALES TOLD BY SHEHEREZADE DURING A THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHTLONDON.VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD.,1992. ISBN 9780575042513.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn. [Rendered into English by Brian Alderson, and illustrated by Michael Foreman.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Michael Foreman,illustrated dw/dj panels, with gilt coloured lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate blue+white decorated endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 191pp [paginated] includes a blue+white with gilt decoration vignetted invocation/dedication (to ALLAH) with full-colour ilustartion to reverse,profuse collection of tales/stories,part,full and double-page colour pictorial artwork illustrations,all by Michael Foreman, throughout the book and the text; plus [unpaginated] half-title with full-colour frntis to reverse,title page,contents list/table.
Sheherezade,beautiful and talented daughter of the Shah's Wazir,is determined to put an end to the cruelty of her ruler. For the Shah has vowed to take a new bride every night,and behead her come the morning.Destined for the same gruesome fate,Sheherezade devises a beguiling plan and,on her wedding night,she begins to weave her tantalizing stories - tales that will bewitch her husband for a thousand and one nights. . . 'The Arabian Nights' is a classic collection of popular stories from Arabia,India and Persia.They recreate a fabulous and fanciful world of sorcerers,sages and Jinnis,but also of ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations.In this selection Brian Alderson strips the stories of their archaic prose and,in the best tradition of European folk tales,reveals an intimate and colloquial version of the tales.It is a classic retelling which includes the most famous and delightful of Sheherezade's enduring stories: 'Sinbad the Sailor','Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' and 'Aladdin'.Faithful to their Eastern origins,the author presents them in a form ideally suited for reading aloud. Michael Foreman's stunning illustrations and embellishments retain all the excitement and mysticism of the original tales.They capture the essence of the east and blend perfectly with the text in a sumptuous book of stories as vivid as they were over a thousand and one years ago.
Michael Foreman,born Pakefield,Suffolk, 1938.Studied at Lowestoft School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.Lecturer at St Martin's School of Art (1963-65),the London College of Printing (1967/8),the Royal College of Art (1968-70) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1972). Art Director of Playboy magazine,Chicago (1965) and the King Magazine,London (1966).Painter,etcher,illustrator and writer of children's books.His illustrative work is distinctive: he often works in colour or halftone,creating luminous effects with veils of thinly diluted pigment over delicate pencil outlines; in his etched illustrations,he uses soft ground techniques to achieve subtle tonal graduations.His imagery, ostensibly decorative,humorous or with a sometimes child-like appearance,often has menacing or bizarre overtones.
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