1928 Eastern Love: Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saikaku Ebara and Songs of the Geishas; Ninety Short Tales of Love and Women from the Arabic; The Loves of Dasin and Musa-Ag-Amastan from the Tamashek and Camel-Boy Rhythms from the Arabic

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition

Comprising three volumes bound into one, as issued.

Volume VII, VIII and IX of this limited edition series of Oriental folk tales, 'Eastern Love', which was printed in a total of 1,000 copies.

Unknown copy number, as this information is found to Vol I. 

In the original full crushed morocco in an Art Deco style, with decorative tooling. 

Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, and eleven hand-coloured plates by Hester Sainsbury. Collated, complete. 

Each volume offers a delightful collection of Eastern and Oriental folk tales: 

Vol VII: Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saikaku Ebara and Songs of the Geishas
Vol VIII: Ninety Short Tales of Love and Women from the Arabic 
Vol IX: The Loves of Dasin and Musa-Ag-Amastan from the Tamashek and Camel-Boy Rhythms from the Arabic

Translated by Edward Powys Mathers, an English translator, poet and compiler of cryptic crosswords for The Observer under the pseudonym "Torquemada" from 1926 until his death.