2014réf. UAESFIN00carjPenguin 2014. Good. Aesop. Fine Life for a Country Mouse. Detwiler Susan. NY: Penguin 2014. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with soiling creasing and abrasions. Adhesive residue on rear cover. Penguin paperback books
1968réf. 011257Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1968 Pictorial boards with light shelf wear child's name on endpaper pages slightly age-toned. A retelling of the well-known fable with adorable color artwork by Vivienne Blake. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Vivienne Blake. Square 8vo. Rand McNally & Company unknown books
réf. CS00574Hurst & Company. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Morocco flexi-boards with gilt titles 12mo 253 pages illustrated throughout; foxing to edges of text block pages are clean and binding is sound. A handsome vintage edition of a classic 0 Hurst & Company hardcover books
1964réf. 011009New York: Clarkson N. Potter 1964 Pictorial boards with some shelf wear; matching dust jacket with edge wear and tiny closed tears small losses stain to center of spine panel original price intact $2.95. Comic modernizations of familiar fables illustrated in line by Roy McKie who was best known for illustrating a few Dr. Seuss books. Stated First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. Illus. by Roy McKie. 8vo. Clarkson N. Potter unknown books
1969réf. 231756New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corp 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 62nd. Very good plus Hardcover has gold stamping with some rubbing no dust jacket. Fables retold by Joseph Jacobs. P.F. Collier & Son Corp hardcover books
1929réf. 44667Chicago: Albert Whitman 1929. Third printing. Dash Joseph Eugene. 8vo pp. 254. Illustrated in black and orange by Joseph Eugene Dash. Red cloth with paper illustration on front and gilt lettering.Corners and ends of spine little scuffed or worn o/w a VG tight copy. Albert Whitman unknown books
1989réf. 72836NY:: Orchard Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0531057747 . First American printing. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Orchard Books, hardcover books
1991réf. 007377New York: Morrow Junior Books 1991 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with wear to extremities original price intact. Aesop's fables retold in verse with marvelous color artwork by Rayevsky. First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Robert Rayevsky. 4to. Morrow Junior Books hardcover books
1979réf. 195462Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Red leather decorative boards. xii 130 pages : illustrations. illustrations by Robert Lawson. Easton Press hardcover books
1971réf. 75037NY:: Seabury Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0816430705 . Second printing. Near fine in a near fine one short closed edge tear both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket. . Seabury Press, hardcover books
1867réf. 1407543New York: Fowler and Wells 1867. The people's edition. Hardcover. Octavo vii 72 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown without print. Boards in brown cloth gold print mitred edges; tattering to spine caps and corners slight damp stains on front panel toning to spine peripheral toning. Text block has gilt edges; name in ink and pencil on front endpapers cracked front hinge spine break at page 22 age toning to paper. Illustrated: b&w drawings. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1407543. FP New Rockville Stock. Fowler and Wells hardcover books
1979réf. 010430Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1979. Collector's Edition. Full-Leather. Very Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo.130pp. Beautiful Unread First "Collector's Edition" one of Easton's "100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Bound in full leather with titles and decoration stamped in gilt on both boards and spine. All edges gilt. Silk bookmark. Square tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price. Easton Press unknown books
réf. 306952Claremont Saunders Press 1953. First edition. Thin 8vo. Frontispiece portrait drawing by Paul Swan; 20 full-page drawings pictorial endpapers and jacket illustration by Phyllis Bailey. Dust jacket few nicks slight rubbing. Very good. 137 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Metrical reworking of the familiar fables. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. Presentation copy signed and inscribed on verso of half-title page by Riley to Jeanie Dulin: "To Jeanie Dulin as compound . . . on her charming book I haven't kept so long Alice C.D. Riley." Laid in loose is a transmittal typed letter signed by Riley Pasadena June 16 1955. Printed by the P - B Press Inc. Pomona California. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Claremont, Saunders Press, 1953. hardcover books
1997réf. 010195Seattle WA: University of Washington Press 1997 Hard cover in dust jacket. Originally published in 1970 an edition published in 1997 with additional artwork by Lawrence. . Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Jacob Lawrence. 4to. University of Washington Press hardcover books
réf. 23025London: Warne And Co Nd. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth spine and illustrated boards lettered in red and black. Very good. 152 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. With 80 original illustrations and colored engraved frontispiece and vignette. Rubbing to extremities. National Nursery Library. Warne And Co hardcover books
1884réf. 213868Boston MA: D. Lothrop & Co 1884. Hardcover. Good-. Red/orange boarts with gilt and black text black printed illustration on cover. Textblock fully gilt. 111 Unnumbered pages. Bw illustrations. Illustrated by E. H. Garrett F. H. Lungren F. Childe Hassam George Foster Barnes M. J. Sweeney Contents: The cats at law -- The ants and the grasshopper -- The maid and the milkpail -- The town mouse and the country mouse -- The donkey and the lion's skin -- The larks and the farmer -- The hare and the tortoise -- The fox and the stork -- The shepherd boy and the wolf -- The lion and the mouse -- The fox and the crow -- The frogs who wished a king. D. Lothrop & Co hardcover books
1997réf. 52913Seattle: University of Washington Press 1997. Fine in near fine jacket. First edition thus re-issued with five new images of this beautifully illustrated take on Aesop's classic fables featuring stunning pen-and-ink illustrations by Lawrence "one of America's most celebrated artists." This book was originally published in 1970 and fell out of print before being redesigned for this new edition which features five additional illustrations by Lawrence. 10'' x 8''. Original black cloth stamping to front board lettered in red to spine. In original pictorial jacket. Grey endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 56 pages. Jacket with touch of edgewear and rubbing faintest toning to top edge of front panel. Interior fresh and bright. University of Washington Press unknown books
1998réf. 89496London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1998. Hardcover. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 152 pages . Folio Society, hardcover books
1919réf. 6902Chicago: Rand McNally 1919. First edition. Good. 31 cm; 112 pages. Color illustrations by Milo Winter. In original cloth with title illustration mounted on upper board. Covers generally quite good with some fraying at spine ends and corners and a 15mm drop of pigment on the upper board obscuring a bit of the illustration. Background of mounted illustration faded to tan. Contents rather good for a children's book without marks or blemishes. The paper stock is slightly tanned darker toward the edges. One hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop. Rand McNally hardcover books
1864réf. 8464Boston. T.O.H.P. Burnham. 1864. Bound in blind embossed gilt titled cloth. Thick 12mo 5.5" x 7". Illustrated with 198 woodcuts en texte. Spine well sunned covers mildly sunned and rubbed. Headpiece chipped. Ink inscription to ffep. Light water staining to bottom corners throughout very seldom reaching text block. Volume presents slight lean. Several signatures slightly shaken but very firm. A Good crisp bright copy. T.O.H.P. Burnham. hardcover books
1998réf. 600010London: Folio Society 1998. Hardcover. Fine condition in a fine slipcase. Decorative Cloth. 152 pp. with 23 color plates plus text illustrations. In handsome slipcase. Folio Society hardcover books
1988réf. 12395Mount Vernon NY: A. Colish Inc 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Dan Kelm. Bumped corners else tight bright and unmarred; near fine. 4to. xi 52pp 2. One on an edition of 1500 copies unnumbered printed in Centaur and Narrow Bembo type on specially made Strathmore Pastelle paper by A. Colish. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. Introduction by Kit Currie. Over twenty illustrations taken from woodcuts in a fifteenth-century copy of Aesop's Fables. Attractively bound in rose paste-paper patterned boards with gilt spine label. A. Colish, Inc hardcover books
1883réf. D2341London: Macmillan and Co. 1883. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorially stamped cloth; illustrated throughout. Cloth frayed or chipped at corners spine tips and here and there along joints; crack in the gutter at pp. 40-41 with binding just a bit shaken. Still a good reading copy with charming illustrations and details. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1798réf. 1407258London: Printed for C. Dilly . et al. 1798. Sixteenth edition carefully revised and improved. Hardcover. 12mo xxiv 329 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is brown without print. Boards in brown leather; worn spine caps and corners torn hinges toning. Text block has cracked hinges light amount of occasional foxing creasing to corners of final pages tear to rear flyleaf. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and text engravings. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #4. 1407258. FP New Rockville Stock. Printed for C. Dilly ... [et al.] hardcover books
1972réf. 7786Mill Valley CA: Sunflower Press 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight bright and unmarred. Printed paper boards. 33x29mm. 14pp. Numbered limited edition this being 22 of 75. Sunflower Press hardcover books
