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1936148561London: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd 1936. Signed limited edition of Aesop's Fables. Royal octavo bound in full vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands gilt ruling and detailing to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers vignette title-page illustrated with engraved plates and decorations. Boldly signed by illustrator Stephen Gooden on the colophon page at the rear. One of 525 numbered copies this is number 304. In fine condition. Translated by famous and influential translator Sir Roger L'estrange. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. Housed in a custom cloth over vellum slipcase. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time a variety of other stories jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. George G. Harrap and Company Ltd hardcover
mon0000364399Outlook Verlag 25/09/2019 00:00:01. hardcover. New. 3.2975 in x 21.5836 in x 15.3883 in. Outlook Verlag hardcover
1087810221.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1994Q-0673361950Celebration Pr 1994-09-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Celebration Pr hardcover
45134733like new. unknown
1018505989.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1149266570.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1995962T86Hampshire: Templar Publishing 1995. First edition. Hardback. Fine. 9.5" by 11.5". Ian Andrew. A very smart first edition of this illustrated fable from Aesop retold by British writer A. J. Wood. First edition retold by A. J. Wood. Very scarce edition. Illustrated throughout. A charming retelling of one of the classic fables attributed to Aesop The Lion and The Mouse. Exploring the moral of the story - that no being is so small or insignificant that it cannot aid a creature of greater importance. Retold by A. J. Wood a British author of children's books editor and illustrator. Illustrated by Ian Andrew a British illustrator noted for his black-and-white pencil illustrations. In the original paper covered boards. Externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. With the original price sticker to the rear pastedown. Fine Templar Publishing hardcover
1982RGKK819-118Santa Cruz CA: The Good Book Press 1982. First Edition. Miniature Book. Very Good. Miniature Book. 3 x 2 5/8 inches. Unpaginated. 10 pp. 2 linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas; text clean unmarked. Hand-made paper over boards titled in blue on the spine and front cover; binding square and tight; spine lightly faded. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-118. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 90 copies this is copy number 6 printed and bound with Peter's hand-made paper. Aesop's fable teaches us the folly of greed. REFERENCE: Bradbury 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books No. 44. The Good Book Press unknown books
The Androcles story of Apion retold and beautifully illustrated by Dennis Nolan. Unpaginated [30p.] illus. Book
1991032669David R. Godine 1991. First edition. 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to unpaginated Signed by author/Illustrator on title page " Barbara McClintock Nov. 5 2006." Includes a notice concerning a Lecture given by Ms. McClintock in Beverly Hills. The book and DJ are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. Profusely illustrated. Pictures available upon request. "Nine timeless fables first told by the Greek Aesop selected adapted and illustrated by Barbara McClintock. This read-aloud collection includes such familiar tale as The Fox and the Grapes and The Crow and the Peacocks." Blue spine/Black-Red text. . Signed. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by McClintock Barbara. 4to. Childrens. David R. Godine Hardcover
198972836NY:: 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
1951155421Zürich: Artemis-Verlag 1951. 368 Seiten. Mit 97 Illustrationen im Text. Kl. 8° (15-17,5 cm). Goldgeprägter Orig.-Leinenband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
15011859Basel: Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim 1501. First edition thus. An early illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables augmented and edited by Sebastian Brant and the first edition to include his additional 140 sections. Two parts in one volume folio leaves measuring 297 x 208 mm. Collates complete retaining one of the two blank leaves M6 lacking. Collation identical to the Fairfax-Murray copy: a-b8 c6-o8 alternately p-s6 s6 blank and original; A-B8 C-D6 E8-K6 alternately L4 M5 M6 final blank lacking. With the famous woodcut portrait of Aesop on the verso of a1 and a smaller woodcut portrait of Brant on the verso of A1 in part two. A total of 335 woodcuts divided into 194 in part one and 141 in part two inclusive of the portraits. Text in Latin. <br/><br/>Full black straight-grain morocco. Boards ruled in gilt with gilt dentelles. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Generous margins. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown. This copy has been very carefully restored and generally presents quite well. Certain passages were deemed obscene shortly after publication and as a consequence most known copies have a few sections defaced. This copy is no different with a number of passages and illustrations crossed out and/or marked "no legas" "do not read". A number of leaves have had small marginal tears or wormholes repaired occasionally affecting a letter or a word. One leaf C4 with a small hole affecting the woodcut on the recto and two or three words on the verso. A few leaves have been remargined including the title page to part 2 leaf A1. In two places leaves are bound out of order. The flaws notwithstanding a lovely book.<br/><br/>The plan of this edition was conceived by Sebastian Brant. The first part of the book is based on Johann Zainer's first illustrated edition of 1476-77 translated into Latin by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Brant expands the work polishes the language and includes his commentaries to these fables. The second part is an entirely new work by Brant of 140 fables riddles accounts of miracles and other wonders of nature. These 140 new chapters follow the same structure as the first section with a woodcut followed by verse and then prose "some of a very remarkable character" according to Hugh W. Davies Fairfax Murray. These compositions are taken from the works of Stace Juvenal Virgil Ovid Lucien. The first story taken from Hesiod is said to be the oldest known fable.<br/><br/>"The numerous woodcuts in this volume fall into two distinct categories. The woodcuts in the first part with a few exceptions are rather simplistic and naive in execution and are based in reverse on the woodcuts from Zainer's successful Ulm edition of c.1476 incidentally the first illustrated edition of Aesop; the actual blocks were first used in Wolff's edition of not after 1489 Goff A115. The woodcuts of the second part are more sophisticated with the use of hatching and perspective to enliven the images and they were cut specifically for this edition; is it thought they were produced by the workshop of Johann Grüninger in Strassburg" Sotheby's. According to Hugh W. Davies "The remainder of the cuts are by a new artist the style entirely differing from the older blocks. These are heavily shaded by thin close parallel lines amalgamating into a solid mass in the deepest shadows. The perspective as a rule is fair: the faces are well rounded the noses being broad at the bridge but well-shaped. The cuts have the appearance of metal but they nevertheless are probably on wood."<br/><br/>In the past 30 years there have been five other auction results for this book one copy selling twice. The average price achieved in those five sales including the buyer's premium is just under $119000. If we average just the two copies sold in the last ten years that average jumps to over $167000. Of those five results the lowest sale price from 2002 made over $81000. And finally to complete the analysis a particularly fine copy was offered by the trade in 2014 for 200000 pounds roughly $329000. So while our copy has its defects and imperfections as do almost all other copies it is priced competitively for such a lovely and important work. <br/><br/> Fairfax Murray 20. Goed. I 390 24. Adams A291. Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim unknown books
1979GKK220-015Heiligenhaus: Hans Gerd Goldschmidt 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. Miniature Book. 2 1/4 x 1 9/16 inches. 124 pp. Text includes 22 fables of Aesop in German-language with 8 drawings by F. Rosmasler Jr. list of the fables included in the text; text clean unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown leather gilt-stamped dust-jacket paper slip-case; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. GKK220-015. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies this is number 127. Printed in 6-point Palatino by Rolf Riotte on Buttenpapier and bound by Horst Schmita. Projected to consist of 3 volumes this is the only volume issued of the series. It is the only miniature book printed in West Germany bound in leather with a printed dust-jacket; this edition has lovely headbands; a truly excellent example of the book arts. 2 copies listed in Worldcat. Hans Gerd Goldschmidt, hardcover books
1087810205.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Else fine. ; Text in Ancient Greek; Prologue in Latin. Cxvi, 204 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 204 pages
1887962F13London: Frederick Warne 1887 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 8". Walter Crane; Edmund Evans. A vibrant example of the first edition of this charmingly illustrated children's edition of Aesop's moral tales in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.In the scarce publisher's original dust wrapper unclipped.Illustrated throughout in colour by Walter Crane printed in colour by Edward Evans. Crane was an English artist and book illustrator and is considered to be the most influential and among the most prolific children's book creators of his generation.Undated; dated 1887 'Walter Crane' by Isobel Spencer p. 203.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. In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards with unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper bright with neat restorations to back strip head and tail head of fore edge of front wrap tail of fore edge of rear wrap. Significant closed tear to rear wrap neatly repaired with tape to the reverse. Minor chips to wrap perimeters. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine Frederick Warne hardcover
183779835London & N.Y. ,George Routledge & Son, 1837. Illustrierter Halbleinenband, 8° 56 Seiten.
uocl08iaab-21015Girassol. New. Girassol unknown
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1990963T5New York: Marrow Junior Books 1990-1991. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 11.5" by 8.5". Robert Rayevsky. Two very smart first edition volumes of these illustrated and retold fables attributed to Aesop with one volume signed by the author. Two volumes. First editions retold in verse by Tom Paxton. Androcles and the Lion is signed by the author to the title page. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop a Greek fabulist and storyteller noted for his tales characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Many of the tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Retold in verse by Thomas Richard Paxton an American folk singer-songwriter. Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky a Russian-born American artist and illustrator. This set contains: Belling the Cat and Other Aesop's Fables 1990. First printing. Including stories such as: The Night Singer Town Mouse and Country Mouse and Many Friends. Androcles and the Lion and Other Aesop's Fables 1991. First printing. Including stories such as: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Bald Knight and The Tree and the Reed. Belling the Cat is bound in the original pictorial paper covered boards with Androcles the Lion being bound in the original full cloth binding. Externally excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are also excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine Marrow Junior Books hardcover
4398945Collectors Library. Main Market. Hardcover. Used; Good. Simply Brit welcome to our online used book store where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books from classics to hidden gems ensuring theres something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. 09/01/2011 Collectors Library hardcover
605393London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878. In-8, rel. de l'ép. demi-basane alezan, dos lisse, double filet doré en tête et en queue, titre doré, plats en perc. chocolat, tête dorée; XL-312 pp., portrait de l'auteur au front., une gravure h.-t. sous serpente encadrée d'un filet rouge en exergue, très nb. gravures, bandeaux, culs-de-lampe in-t. sur bois originales de Thomas Bewick, la préface de 1871 est illustrée par Edwin Pearson, filet noir encadrant le texte en anglais, index.
187819519London: Longman's Green & Co 1878. Later printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo 5" x 7.25" green red and gilt-stamped pictorial cloth with gilt spine. All edges gilt. Back cover decorated in blind. 312pp. Profusely illustrated throughout the text "with the original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick". Two former owners' names and an inscription on the verso of the front free-endpaper. Some wear at extremities particularly the head and tail but still a lovely copy. "In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley's; II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse; III. Fables in Verse. To which are prefixed The Life of Aesop and An Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Faithfully Reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784." Longman's, Green & Co hardcover
