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| POLO, MARCO The Travels of Marco Polo New York, Orion Press. 1958. Ill.: Design by Martin Krampen. First Edition. xx, 356pp, 25 illustrations in full color from a 14th century manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. 8vo/22cm. Pictorial blue cloth gilt, light edgeware, in protected lightly edgeworn and soiled dj, internally fine. The text is based on the Marsden-Wright translation as used in the Everyman's edition published in New York by E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. and in London by J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. Marco Polo (1254-1324) was probably the most famous Westerner who ever travelled the Silk Road. USD 19.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.75 | £UK 11.5 | JP¥ 1677] Book number: 003480 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| POLO, MARCO The Travels of Marco Polo The Venetian. Translated and Edited by William Marsden; Re-edited by Thomas Wright Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1948. Ill.: Jon Corbino. [vi], 344pp, endpaper map, 14 color plates from paintings by Corbino, many black and white text drawings. 8vo/22cm. Backed in tan cloth gilt, front board elaborately decorated iin black and gold on red field, light rubbing, internally fine. Overall VG+. Marco Polo (1254-1324) was a Venetian trader and explorer and together with his father and uncle was one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 003498 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| POLO, MARCO The Travels of Marco Polo. Edited with Introduction by Manuel Komroff. Garden City, Garden City Publishing Co. Inc. Ill.: Witold Gordon. N.d.(ca.1930?) Deluxe Edition based on Horace Liveright copyright edition of 1930. xxxiii, 370pp, thirty two 2-color woodcut illustrations by Witold Gordon, index. Tall 8vo/24cm. Grey cloth with gilt decorated spine, slightly rubbed at head of spine, small dark smudge at tail, blind stamp seal on front board, in protected but chipped dj, illustrated end papers, internally clean, tight and very good+.VG/G-. Marco Polo, one of the great travellers of all time, lived from approximately 1254 to 1324 A.D. Manuel Komroff (1890-1974) was a prolific American writer and editor with more than fifty titles to his credit in the Library of Congress, several relating to Marco Polo. Witold Gordon (c.1885?-1968) was well known for his illustrations which appeared in major magazines like Vanity Fair, Vogue and the New Yorker (for which he did eight covers in the 1940s). He also did murals for Rockefeller Center and the 1940 New York World's Fair. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 1942] Book number: 003500 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. |
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