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HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN 1937 Random House Baldridge Pictorial Cloth 1st Ed DJ Rare For Sale
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HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN 1937 Random House Baldridge Pictorial Cloth 1st Ed DJ Rare:
$75.00
- Detailed Description:
- Core Info:Author:James Morier.Illustrator:Cyrus Leroy Baldridge.Publisher:Random House, NY.Date:1937 (MCMXXXVII).Edition:First Edition Thus (True First Printing).
- Collector’s Grade Specimen:An investment-quality \"Double-Pictorial\" survivor. This copy features the rarePictorial Cloth bindingbeneath a high-grade,unclipped $3.50 dust jacket. Finding both the jacket and the underlying lithographed boards in this vibrant, unfaded state is a significant rarity.
- Key Features:
- Artistic Milestone:Features28 full-page, multi-color lithographic platesand over 100 integrated drawings/vignettes.
- Orientalist Masterpiece:Based on the artist\'s actual 1930s travels through Persia and Baghdad to ensure authentic costume and architectural detail.
- Production:Large-format quarto with high-fidelity color reproduction on heavy, archival-quality paper.
- Item Condition:
- Exterior:Near Fine / Fine.The pictorial cloth boards are exceptionally bright; the blue spine block is bold and the white lettering is crisp.
- Dust Jacket:Very Good+ / Near Fine.Unclipped with the original$3.50 price. The colors remain remarkably vivid. Shows only minor age-consistent edge wear and light surface wrinkling; now stabilized in aremovable Mylar sleeve.
- Interior:Pristine.The text block and all 28 color plates are clean, white, and free from foxing, finger-marks, or ghosting. The binding is remarkably tight and square. No previous owner names or markings.
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