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Best.-Nr. DADAX1503069990CREATESPACE 2015-06-09. Large Print. paperback. New. 8.50x0.45x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. CREATESPACE paperback
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1984Best.-Nr. Q-0026890224Atheneum 1984-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Atheneum hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 3131711Meisenheim/Glan: Anton Hain 1961. 51, (1) Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
Best.-Nr. 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
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Best.-Nr. 110884Baldwin Cradock and Joy. London. 1823. Baldwin Cradock and Joy. 1823. Second edition. Small slim 8vo hardback. iv 127pp. Engraved frontis. displaying Aesop's trial with the animals including a large elephant. 70 detailed oval engraved vignettes to 35 pages. Quarter red roan gilt rebacked in matching red calf. Marbled boards.Corners rubbed and worn. Pages browned and occasionally foxed. Illustrations attractively off-set to opposing page. Lovely old gift inscription dated 1825. A very attractive volume. hardcover
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1972Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book presents a collection of Aesop's fables as a dramatic vehicle for presentation. 66 "playlets" written expressly for elementary school classrooms, grades two to five. Plays include: Mouse and the bull, Grasshopper and the owl, Two frogs, Wolf and the lamb, Boy and the nuts, Flea and the ox, Mother lark and her babies, Peacock and juno, Hare and the tortoise, Wind and the sun, Serpent and the eagle, The heron, etc.
1890Best.-Nr. 961H39London: Field & Tuer 1890. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". None Stated. A scarce volume reimagining Aesop's classic fables through a Victorian lens richly illustrated with woodcuts and penned by Mary Louisa Boyle close friend of Dickens and Tennyson. Rebound in half calf with red cloth boards.This is a scarce edition this distinctive work that reimagines Aesop's classic fables through a late-Victorian lens. This copy is particularly notable for its numerous woodcut illustrations.The fables included in this edition include: "Courtship" "The Taming of the Shrew" "Self-Esteem" "Simplicity Victorious" "Genius" "Conceit" "Billy and Bully" "Masher Bunnie" "Duped" "Crossed" "Diamond Cut Diamond" "Pride Goes Before a Fall" "The Ungrateful Cur" and "A Cool Reminder" to name a few.Mary Louisa Boyle 1810 1890 was an English writer and amateur actress who moved in the literary circles of Charles Dickens and Alfred Lord Tennyson with the later writing a poem about her "To Mary Boyle" publ. 1889 and the former writing letters to her record several of her gifts to him calling her "among the few whom I most care for and best love."Bound by Eric Sweet a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style. Rebound in half calf with red cloth boards. Externally very smart. Rubbing to spine and extremities. Fading to spine. One or two marks to boards. Endpapers slightly age toned with the odd spot. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just one or two spots. Very Good Indeed Field & Tuer hardcover
1964Best.-Nr. 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
1947Best.-Nr. 962F24London: Juvenile Productions Ltd. c1947. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 11" by 9.5". E. H. Davie. Two copies of a charmingly illustrated mid-twentieth century juvenile edition of the fables of Aesop vibrantly illustrated in colour by E. H. Davie. Present here are two copies of this children's edition of the animal fables of Aesop illustrated throughout in colour by E. H. Davie.Davie is best known as one of the illustrators frequently used by Enid Blyton but little else about them is known.The first of the two copies of this edition present here is in the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards while the other has been rebound by Eric Sweet - with his bookplate to the front pastedown - with endpapers renewed.Eric Sweet was a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.Sweet has produced a chemise and slip case to house these two volumes. To the interior of the chemise is laid down the pictorial paper boards of the rebound volume.Undated; dated circa 1947 via the British Library.Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours teaching practical life lessons through their interactions. Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare" "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance honesty and hard work. Two volumes - one in the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards and another rebound in cloth - housed in a cloth chemise and slip case. The pictorial boards of the rebound volume are laid down to the interior of the chemise. Externally excellent with rubbing to perimeters of paper covered boards. Bookplate to front pastedown of rebound cloth volume. Internally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright and generally clean with only the odd spot or light handling mark. Very Good Indeed Juvenile Productions Ltd. hardcover
1856Best.-Nr. 194703London John Murray 1856. 1856. "New Edition." Small 8vo. 203 fables. 12 page author's introduction. More than 100 illustrations designed by John Tenniel. Index. Modern 3/4 gilt stamped tan calf over marbled boards spine with raised bands and gilt stamped green morocco label matching marbled endpapers glazed edges. Fine. 148 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Bradbury and Evans. Hardcover. Fine. London, John Murray, 1856. hardcover
Best.-Nr. FORT861660Garden City Publishing Co. Used - Acceptable. 1939. Includes all 13 full-colour plates illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Octavo. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tipped-on full colour illustration of several animals to front board. Garden City Publishing Co hardcover
1833Best.-Nr. 23289London: J. Souter School Library 73 St. Paul's Churchyard. Good with no dust jacket. 1833. Hardcover. Ex-library "Students' Library - Mount St. Mary's - Greenmeadows". Library rubber stamp on title page. Some library markings. Owner's signature "John Bowden". Spine rubbed with some abrasions to leather. Gutters split at hinges. ; 2 recto: title 97 1 Errata pages. Quarter blue leather and blue cloth boards. Contemporary printed paper label on front board. Page dimensions: 170 x 98mm. Aesop's fables. Greek text of 50 fables on pages 1-50. Short Notes and Explanations in English on pages 51-60. Lexicon Greek-English on pages 61-97. ; 12mo . J. Souter, School Library, 73, St. Paul's Churchyard hardcover
1818Best.-Nr. 00222089NEWCASTLE ENGLAND: E. WALKER. BOUND IN FULL BROWN LEATHER WITH COMPARTMENTS TO SPINE CONTAINING FOUR GILT VIGNETTES OF DOG AND SWAN. BOARDS ARE SCORED INTO DIAMOND SHAPES BY BINDER WITH TWO ROWS OF DECORATIVE GILT BOARD EDGES. MARBLED ENDPAPERS IN RED BLACK AND PINK MARBLING EXTENDING TO ALL EDGES. TWO BOTTOM CORNERS ARE SLIGHTLY RUBBED BUT BINDING IS TIGHT AND SOUND. ENGRAVED BOOKPLATE OF FAMILY FRANKLAND TO FFEP WITH ENGRAVING OF FISH ENCIRCLING AN ANCHOR. 187 FABLES EACH WITH BEWICK ENGRAVING SET ABOVE THE TEXT AND TISSUE GUARD BEFORE EACH FABLE. PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION INCLUDED. ODD SCATTERED FOXING SPOTS THROUGHOUT OTHERWISE VG . Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 1818. E. WALKER hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. 333060New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1947. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Large open tear on bottom rear gutter. Small open tears on panel corners and spine crown and heel. Sunning on spine. Foxing on top text block edge. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
Best.-Nr. 58137952-6Printers Row Publishing Group. Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Printers Row Publishing Group unknown
