Buy this book on-line MOORE, C. J - Retold by: : One Thousand and One NightsSCOTLAND.EDINBURGH.FLORIS BOOKS,2009. ISBN 9780863156007.
UK,slim Qrto HB,1st edn thus.[Originally and first published as 'Die schonsten Murchen aus 1001 Nacht' by Esslinger Verlag J.F. Schreiber (Germany) in 2006. This English version first published by this publisher,2009.] FINE-.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued? Bright, crisp,clean,glazed,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Olga Dugina, illustrated glazed boards,with brown+black lettering to front,b/w to spine/backstrip and black to rear; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top edge with a few tiny,minor abrasions and rear board with some scoring/indents.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered,publisher's original pictorial coloured glazed boards with immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB,1st edn thus,7-87pp [paginated] includes 4 separate stories and how her story ended,colour pictorial headpieces, profuse part+full-page,muted full-colour illustrations (similar in style and effect of US illustrator Maxfield Parrish) - all by Olga Dugina throughout the text and the book, plus [unpaginated] half-title page with colour vignette to its reverse,title page also with a small colour vignette to its reverse too,vignetted contents list/ table: Sheherazade,Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Tale of the Ox and the Ass,The Horse of Ebony and how Sheherazade story ended.
Sheherazade,the king's beautiful wife,was due to be executed at dawn - unless she could convince the king to change his mind.That night she told him a wonderful story which,as dawn came,she left unfinished. "Will you let me live to finish the tale?" she asked."Of course," said the king."I must know what happens next." Night after night,Sheherazade told story after story,always leaving the last one incomplete.And so for one thousand and one nights,she remained alive . . .
Olga Dugina born Moscow,Sept 5,1964. Educated/studied Krasnopresnenskaya Art School,Moscow (1977-1981) and Moscow Academic Art School (1984-88).An illustrator since 1989 and lives and works in Germany from that date too.Since 1989 has worked on several projects with Andrej Dugin (her husband) for German publisher Esslinger Verlag J.F. Schreiber.Since 2002,she teaches art at Stuttgart Art School During 2002-03 she was the concept artist for Warner Bros film 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.Previous work includes 4 illustrated books - The Fine Round Cake,The Dragon Feathers,The Little Brave Tailor and this title,and also Madonna's The Adventures of Abdi.
She has won French,German,Austrian awards and also the Bologna Book Fair Award UNICEF.She has also exhibited in Italy, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
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