The Koran: Selected Suras. Translated from the Arabic…

Jeffrey, Arthur (translator); Valenti Angelo (decorator). The Koran: Selected Suras. Translated from the Arabic… New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. First edition thus. Octavo. 232pp. Tan buckram decorated in red & blue. Overlapping fore-edge flap with gilt title label. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell box with gilt fore-edge label. Title page within a red & blue decorative border with gilt highlights. Each text leaf within a decorative red & blue border. Marginal notes printed in blue. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363) decorated and hand illuminated by Valenti Angelo and signed by him on the limitation leaf. Text in English. Clamshell box is sound but with occasional fraying and a bit of separation at some joints. very good to near fine. Hardcover. (50581) $75