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  "full": "\n**MANUEL KOMROFF, ed. ORIENTAL ROMANCES. 1930–1935. (ML 55)**  \n\n#### 196. First printing (1930)  \n\n[within double rules] ORIENTAL | ROMANCES | [rule] | EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | MANUEL KOMROFF | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–ix [x], 1–306 [307–310]. [1–10]16  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A6; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1930, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1930 | [short double rule]; v CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–ix INTRODUCTION signed p. ix: Manuel Komroff. | *New York, December,* 1929.; [x] blank; 1–306 text; [307–310] ML list. (*Spring 1930*)  \n\n*Contents:* The Three Deceitful Women – Adventures of Pramati – Baar Danesh or Garden of Knowledge – Lessons in Love – The Three Haschich Eaters – Utpalavarna – Adventures of Mitragupta – The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto – The Kazi of Ghazni and the Merchant’s Wife – All for a Pansa – How Hind Revenged Herself – The Wisdom of Visakha – The Vampire’s Stories – The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki – The Princess Zelica – Marriage of Avantisundari – How Yunus the Scribe Sold His Slave-Girl – The Faithful Wife of the King’s Attendant – The Lovers Who Died of Love – The Forty-seven Ronins – The Old Pair of Slippers – The Envious Vazir.  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in moderate yellowish green (136) and black on brilliant yellow (87) paper depicting a couple with parasol crossing a curved footbridge with pagoda in background; borders in moderate yellowish green, lettering in black and moderate yellowish green. Signed: [Irving] Politzer. (*Spring 1930*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Published May 1930. *WR* not found. First (and probably only) printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued fall 1935.  \n\nKomroff began working on *Oriental Romances* in 1926 when he made a trip to London and acquired the source books from which he planned to select the contents (Komroff to Cerf, 15 September 1926). A note in the RH archives indicates that 8,421 copies were bound, so the first printing consisted of at least that many copies.  \n\n#### ***Fall***  \n\n",
  "id": "196",
  "year": "1930",
  "label": "MANUEL KOMROFF, ed. ORIENTAL ROMANCES. 1930–1935. (ML 55)",
  "author": "MANUEL KOMROFF, ed",
  "title": "ORIENTAL ROMANCES.",
  "date": "1930–1935.",
  "something": "ML 55",
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      "id": "196",
      "title": "First printing (1930)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] ORIENTAL | ROMANCES | [rule] | EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | MANUEL KOMROFF | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–ix [x], 1–306 [307–310]. [1–10]16  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A6; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1930, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1930 | [short double rule]; v CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–ix INTRODUCTION signed p. ix: Manuel Komroff. | *New York, December,* 1929.; [x] blank; 1–306 text; [307–310] ML list. (*Spring 1930*)  \n\n*Contents:* The Three Deceitful Women – Adventures of Pramati – Baar Danesh or Garden of Knowledge – Lessons in Love – The Three Haschich Eaters – Utpalavarna – Adventures of Mitragupta – The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto – The Kazi of Ghazni and the Merchant’s Wife – All for a Pansa – How Hind Revenged Herself – The Wisdom of Visakha – The Vampire’s Stories – The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki – The Princess Zelica – Marriage of Avantisundari – How Yunus the Scribe Sold His Slave-Girl – The Faithful Wife of the King’s Attendant – The Lovers Who Died of Love – The Forty-seven Ronins – The Old Pair of Slippers – The Envious Vazir.  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in moderate yellowish green (136) and black on brilliant yellow (87) paper depicting a couple with parasol crossing a curved footbridge with pagoda in background; borders in moderate yellowish green, lettering in black and moderate yellowish green. Signed: [Irving] Politzer. (*Spring 1930*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Published May 1930. *WR* not found. First (and probably only) printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued fall 1935.  \n\nKomroff began working on *Oriental Romances* in 1926 when he made a trip to London and acquired the source books from which he planned to select the contents (Komroff to Cerf, 15 September 1926). A note in the RH archives indicates that 8,421 copies were bound, so the first printing consisted of at least that many copies.  \n\n"
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