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1997rif. 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
1997rif. 85803University of Washington Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 56 pages; 23 illustrations. -- with a bonus offer--; "Aesop's Fables" combines 23 timeless morality tales with striking black ink drawings by the revered artist Jacob Lawrence. This new edition completely redesigned and typeset adds five illustrations Lawrence prepared for the original edition but which were not included in it. Aesop's fables are often ungentle tales with profound and instructive morals. Lawrence's bold and expressive pen-and-ink illustrations reflect both the charm and the severity of the fables themselves. The wisdom and depth of this collection will reach all who read it from child to adult. . 1997. 0295976411 . University of Washington Press hardcover
1924rif. 365994New York: John Martin's Book House 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A children's book attractively printed in black and orange. Illustrated by George L. Carlson and W. Fletcher White. First edition no statement of later printings. Mounted paper label on front cover with surface wear especially at the edges thus very good lacking the scarce dust jacket. With a few small stray pen marks in the text. John Martin's Book House hardcover
1985rif. 102885Holt Rinehart and Winston 1985. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. SIGNED by author on title page. The best copy currently being offered online. Clean tight and bright pictorial boards. Dust jacket is preserved in an archival grade Mylar sleeve. GIFT QUALITY COPY! Ships from the U.S. can ship int'l. TRACKING INCLUDED ON ALL DOMESTIC AND PARTICIPATING INT'L DESTINATIONS. Other titles available in this and other like series. Please inquire. We would be happy to pull and list items upon request. 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE ON ALL PURCHASES.TRUST AN EXPERIENCED DEALER WITH 30 YEARS IN THE CHILDREN'S BOOK TRADE! Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston hardcover
1929rif. 2082702114909669Kindai-sha 1929. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 570p Plate size: 20cm Kindai-sha paperback
1912rif. 180752London: William Heinemann 1912. Signed copy one of 520 finely bound with pictorial title block to front First Rackham edition signed limited issue and first edition of this translation; number 1191 of 1450 copies signed by the artist. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form which is after all the basic device of the morality is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality" Gettings pp. 83-84. Quarto 277 x 229 mm. With 13 tipped in colour plates as issued captioned tissue guards and 5 black and white illustrations. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in reddish-brown morocco spine lettered and decorated gilt raised bands pictorial title block to front board gilt twin rule to turn-ins gilt dark green endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. A few leaves slightly browned and the occasional minor blemish. An excellent copy finely bound. Riall p. 111. Fred Gettings Arthur Rackham 1976. hardcover
1912rif. 00001047London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1912. xxix 223 1 pages plus color frontispiece and 12 full-page color plates. Original publisher's bluish-green cloth lettered in black with color plate mounted on front cover. 20.5 x 16 cm. Wear to the spine ends and corners with a tiny tear to the tail of the spine; dime-sized stain on the front cover at the hinge. Moderate and mostly marginal foxing throughout with more widespread foxing on a dozen or so pages especially at the front and rear of the volume. Thus good only although a solid volume. Some of the color plates show very faint marginal toning and two have a marginal smudge but the images are unblemished and all printed tissue guards are present. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION using the same sheets as the English edition with a variant binding. The English trade edition was bound in green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt with no illustration. William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
1912rif. 187472London: William Heinemann 1912. Fables and fairy tales Signed limited edition number 379 of 1450 copies signed by the artist. It is also the first edition of this translation by Vernon Jones. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form which is after all the basic device of the morality is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality" Gettings pp. 83-84. Quarto. Frontispiece and 12 plates all in colour and tipped to brown art paper with tissue guards captioned in brown as issued 19 full-page black and white illustrations line drawings in the text. Original white cloth spine and front cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Bookplate of Cecily Mary Severne 1889-1981. Spine toned light soiling to cloth endpapers browned occasional foxing. A very good copy. Riall p. 111. Fred Gettings Arthur Rackham 1976. hardcover
rif. 06684London: William Heineman 1912. Where Ancient Fable Meets Arthur Rackham's Enchanted Imagination The Signed Limited Edition of Aesop's Fables 1912 RACKHAM Arthur. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. Limited to 1450 numbered copies signed by the artist this being copy no. 1103. Large quarto 11 7/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 291 x 227 mm. xxix 1blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates mounted on heavy brown paper with captioned tissue guards and fifty-three black and white text drawings. Publisher's white buckram front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened otherwise a very fine copy the gilt bright and fresh. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. The 1st century AD philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then too he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana Book V:14. Lattimore and Haskell pp. 38-9. Riall p. 111. London: William Heineman, 1912 unknown
rif. 06285London: William Heinemann 1912. Arthur Rackham Illustrates Aesop's Fables First Trade Edition RACKHAM Arthur. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. First trade edition. Small square octavo 8 x 5 7/8 inches; 202 x 149 mm. xxix 1 blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates including frontispiece with captioned tissue guards fifty-three black and white drawings of which nineteen are full page. Publisher's green cloth front cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt lower cover with publisher's blind stamp pictorial end-papers printed in green top edge stained green. Spine slightly darkened extremities of cloth slightly rubbed inner hinges cracked but sound. A good copy only. "In Aesop's Fables 1912.Rackham's primary intention was to amuse but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea the pompous gentleman who scoldsd the drowning boy the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" Hudson Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work p. 94. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. The 1st century AD philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then too he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana Book V:14. Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39; Riall p. 111. London: William Heinemann, 1912 unknown
1912rif. 104155William Heinemann. London. 1912. William Heinemann. 1912. First edition trade. Hardback. No DW. Green cloth decorated in gilt spine slightly knocked extremities lightly rubbed. Coloured frontis. plus 12 coloured plates all with captioned tissue guards. 5 plates in b/w and numerous illustrations to text. Endpapers browned gift inscription to blank of prelims. Generally a very clean and sound copy of this lovely edition. hardcover
2003rif. Q-0794504094Usborne Pub Ltd 2003-12-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Usborne Pub Ltd paperback
1988Nine of Aesop's fables delightfully illustrated with 5 pop-ups and pull tabs. Includes : The Hare & the Tortoise, The Lion and the Mouse, The Shepherd and his Sheep, The Crow and the Pitcher,The Dog and his Meat, The Jackdaw and the Peacocks, The Wolf and the Crane, The Bear and the Beehives, The Fox and the Grape. Unpaginated. Crisp, tight , bright copy, in full working order .[NO copies found in WorldCat] Book
1993(Picture Puffins Series) Nine of Aesop's fables delightfully illustrated . The text is based on the translations of Boris Artzybasheff and Robert L'Estrange.26p.Tight , bright copy.! Book
1914rif. 010480London / Philadelphia: Raphael Tuck & Sons / David McKay 1914 140 pgs 4 pgs of ads. Blue cloth ruled & titled in gilt light wear and fraying to extremities spine darkened and stained binding shaken occasional finger soil previous owner's bookplate. An uncommon edition of Aesop's Fables illustrated with 12 color plates other artwork in line by Edwin Noble. . First American Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edwin Noble. Large 8vo. Raphael Tuck & Sons / David McKay hardcover books
rif. 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
1933rif. 9026593New York: Limited Editions Cub 1933. Hardcover. fine. Samuel Croxall's translation with a bibliographical note by Victor Scholderer. With forty six Florentine woodcuts reproduced from a rare sixteenth century Aesop in the library of Wilfred Merton and redrawn by Rogers. One of 1500 numbered copies designed by Bruce Rogers and signed by him printed by John Johnson at the University Press Oxford.Bound in quarter vellum and marbled paper boards. Slipcase worn at the edges. Former owner's bookplate. Publisher's informational postcard laid in. Limited Editions Cub hardcover books
1912rif. 180219011London: William Heinemann 1912. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Deluxe limited edition; copy #540 of 1450 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's buckram cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled darkened at spine lightly toned and with light staining to edge of rear cover. Dark stain to gutter at top margin of roughly the first third of pages stain to bottom for edge margin to last several leaves and endsheet. Thirteen full-color plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards all present. William Heinemann hardcover books
rif. 06629London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd 1936. The Fox and the Crow - Gooden's Masterpiece of Modern Book Illustration A Signed Limited Aesop in Vellum Finely Printed at Cambridge GOODEN Stephen illustrator. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange Kt. with plates & decorations by Stephen Gooden. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1936. Limited to 525 numbered copies this being No. 266 signed by Stephen Gooden. Small folio 10 x 7 inches; 254 x 178 mm. 311 1 limitation pp. Finely printed letterpress by Cambridge University Press under Walter Lewis. Copper plates engraved by A. Alexander & Sons London. Illustrated with twelve superb copper-engraved plates including a vignette title-page with original tissue guard. Publisher's full cream vellum covers ruled and decorated in gilt upper cover with central gilt fox spine with five shallow bands decorated and lettered in gilt marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Housed in the original pink/gray mottled paper-covered slipcase printed spine label with matching serial number in ink. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. This 1936 Harrap Aesop stands among the great illustrated books of the interwar period - a harmonious collaboration of classical text elegant typography and masterful copper engraving. Stephen Gooden one of the finest British engravers of his generation brings to Aesop a line that is precise yet lively classical yet modern and perfectly suited to the moral clarity and wit of the fables Gooden's animals - foxes crows lions and asses - are rendered with quiet authority and restrained humor avoiding caricature in favor of timeless archetype. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1936 unknown books
1997rif. 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
rif. 06684London: William Heineman 1912. Where Ancient Fable Meets Arthur Rackham's Enchanted Imagination The Signed Limited Edition of Aesop's Fables 1912 RACKHAM Arthur. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. Limited to 1450 numbered copies signed by the artist this being copy no. 1103. Large quarto 11 7/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 291 x 227 mm. xxix 1blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates mounted on heavy brown paper with captioned tissue guards and fifty-three black and white text drawings. Publisher's white buckram front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened otherwise a very fine copy the gilt bright and fresh. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. The 1st century AD philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then too he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana Book V:14. Lattimore and Haskell pp. 38-9. Riall p. 111. London: William Heineman, 1912 unknown books
rif. 06285London: William Heinemann 1912. Arthur Rackham Illustrates Aesop's Fables First Trade Edition RACKHAM Arthur. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. First trade edition. Small square octavo 8 x 5 7/8 inches; 202 x 149 mm. xxix 1 blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates including frontispiece with captioned tissue guards fifty-three black and white drawings of which nineteen are full page. Publisher's green cloth front cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt lower cover with publisher's blind stamp pictorial end-papers printed in green top edge stained green. Spine slightly darkened extremities of cloth slightly rubbed inner hinges cracked but sound. A good copy only. "In Aesop's Fables 1912.Rackham's primary intention was to amuse but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea the pompous gentleman who scoldsd the drowning boy the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" Hudson Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work p. 94. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. The 1st century AD philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then too he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana Book V:14. Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39; Riall p. 111. London: William Heinemann, 1912 unknown books
1979rif. 195462Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Red leather decorative boards. xii 130 pages : illustrations. illustrations by Robert Lawson. Easton Press hardcover books
1867rif. 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
1933rif. 13723AESOP'S FABLES SAMUEL CROXALL'S TRANSLATION WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY VICTOR SCHOLDERER AND NUMEROUS FACSIMILES OF FLORENTINE WOODCUTS Limited Editions Club 1933 first edition thus a tight vg copy with t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt. Profusely illustrated. 1/1500 copies SIGNED by designer Bruce Rogers. Limited Editions Club unknown books
