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1912307754London New York : W. Heinemann ; Doubleday Page & Co. 1912. New Edition. Hardcover. Good copy rebacked with the original spine laid back gilt decoration to the spine and boards. Front board starting. Some staining wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and sharp-cornered. Includes previous owner's inscription. Series; Children's illustrated classics. Physical description; xxix 223 pages 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations some color ; 21 cm. Subjects; Fables Greek ; Translations into English. Fables. Aesop's fables. Aesop's fables Children's literature. Animals in literature. Short stories ; Juvenile fiction. Folklore. Fables Greek ; Illustrations. Children's stories. Fables ; Juvenile fiction. Folklore ; Juvenile fiction. Fables Juvenile literature. Fables Greek ; Adaptations. Animals ; Juvenile fiction. Animals. Fables. Genres; Adaptations. Fables. Fiction. Illustrated. Juvenile works. Translations. London New York : W. Heinemann ; Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
1912aes01London: William Heinemann. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover heavily marked; spine darkened. Sporadic marking and foxing; some discolouration to margins. Occasional staining not impinging. Browning to pages sometimes heavy. Some off-setting. Previous owner's inscription dated 1917 to fep verso. Teg - remaining edges untrimmed. 1912. Limited Edition 1042/1450. White/gilt decorated hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 240mm 12" x 9". xxix 224pp. 13 mounted plates with captioned tissue-guards; additional illustrations in b/w. Signed on the limitation page by Rackham. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . William Heinemann hardcover
19285422London: Ernest Benn. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1928. Hardcover. No signatures. Boards protected in loose-fitting non-adhesive plastic jacket. ; Number 45 of an edition of 50 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper and specially bound. vi 52 pages. Blue boards with vellum spine. Gilt border decoration on front board. Page dimensions: 255 x 195mm. Top page edges gilt. Selected contents: A Fox and a Raven; A Lion and a Mouse; A Dog and a Shadow; A Sheep and a Crow; A Smith and his Dog; A Man and a Satyr; A Bull and a Ram; A Bat Birds and Beasts; A Wolf in a Sheep's Skin; Death and an Old Man. ; 4to . Ernest Benn hardcover
1991963H12Unknown: Joie Inc. 1991. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 6.5" by 7". Shogo Hirata. Eight vibrantly illustrated volumes of Aesop"s Fables skillfully rebound into a single volume. Rebound in brown cloth with charming gilt star decoration.This edition comprises eight volumes each containing a selection of fables by Shogo Hirata published in 1991 by Joie Inc. in the UK. First UK edition. First edition thus.These volumes have been bound into a single volume by Eric Sweet.These volumes consist of:A Mouse's Gratitude The Foolish Tiger & the Foolish Leopard Outsmarting the Cat.A Crow in Borrowed Feathers The Boy Who Cried Wolf.A Greedy Dog The Gold Axe and the Silver Axe.A Mouse's Wedding A Fox and Grapes An Ant and a Dove.A Cowardly Bat A Donkey and a Foolish Wolf A Crow that was Tricked.Country Mouse and Town Mouse The Money King.The Hare and the Tortoise A Foolish Miller and his Donkey.Ants and Grasshoppers Three Oxen and a Lion.Each work features numerous vibrant full-page and in-text illustrations from Shogo Hirata a Japanese illustrator renowned for his adaptations of classic fairy tales and fables.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 brown cloth. Externally lovely. One or two very faint handling marks to boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. The odd spot close to fore edge. Near Fine Joie, Inc. hardcover
1928962T68London: Ernest Benn Limited 1928. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7.5". Marcus Gheeraerts. A smart first edition of this collection of fables and myths adorned with lovely illustrations after Marcus Gheeraerts. Twenty-four fables of Aesop and others collected into one volume the first trade edition. Illustrated throughout. Including classic tales of 'A Fox and a Raven' 'The Hares and the Frogs' 'A Fox and Grapes' and 'A Man and a Satyr' among many others. Rendered into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange an English pamphleteer author courtier and press censor best known for his polemical pamphlet 'An Account of the Growth of Knavery'. Illustrated after the designs of Marcus Gheeraerts a Flemish artist working at the Tudor court described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Eworth and van Dyck". In the original full cloth binding. Externally smart with light wear to the extremities and minor fading to the spine and board edges. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Ernest Benn, Limited hardcover
1980BBS-2001281Putnam Pub Group 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 11x8x0. First American edition. 29 pages. Glossy illustrated boards in very good condition lightly bumped and rubbed along the edges and corners. Mild scuffing throughout exterior. No jacket. Spine square. Binding tight. Very faint scuff to title page p. 6 and p. 18. Interior otherwise bright and clean. Overall in very good condition but lacking DJ. Putnam Pub Group hardcover
19801308134E Rutherford New Jersey U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket inscribed by Carle with an original hand drawing. E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group hardcover
1954374173New York: Museum of Modern Art 1954. No. 182 of 975 numbered copies of an edition of 1000 signed by Frasconi Wescott and the printer Joseph Blumenthal. Linoleum blocks by Antonio Frasconi. Printed by Joseph Blumenthal in Emerson type at the Spiral Press. Original pictorial paper-covered boards red cloth spine a fine copy in labeled card slipcase missing glassine book cover. No. 182 of 975 numbered copies of an edition of 1000 signed by Frasconi Wescott and the printer Joseph Blumenthal. Linoleum blocks by Antonio Frasconi. Printed by Joseph Blumenthal in Emerson type at the Spiral Press. As stated on the colophon: "This book the first of a series of limited editions to be published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler has been designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at The Spiral Press New York.". The Artist and the Book 111. A Century of Artists Books p.121 Museum of Modern Art unknown
1954327078New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. Narrated by Glenway Wescott. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Small quarto. Quarto red cloth and decorated paper over boards. Spine a little toned else about fine in lightly worn very good cardboard slipcase. copy number 195 of 975 numbered copies printed at the Spiral Press Signed by Frasconi Wescott and printer Joseph Blumenthal. A nice copy. The Museum of Modern Art hardcover
19541004349New York: Museum of Modern Art 1954. First trade edition of one of the most graphically striking modern editions of Aesop adapted from the limited edition of the same year signed and dated by Antonio Frasconi. Featured fables include "The Hare with Ability and the Tortoise with Staying Power" "The Jackdaw with Eclectic Plumage" and "The Flattered Raven and the Crafty Fox." Bursting with energy Frasconi's linocut images provide a comic counterpoint to Glenway Wescott's deadpan "narration" of the fables: the stag "took refuge springing amid the underbrush where his proud headgear entangled him. There as he struggled with the desolate sound of the hound coming closer and closer in a flash he developed a better sense of values." The Books of Antonio Frasconi 9. A near-fine copy in original publisher's envelope scarce signed. Side-stapled pamphlet measuring 8.25 x 6 inches: 32. Original buff pictorial wrappers printed in red and black. Linoleum block illustrations printed in black throughout text. Signed and dated "July 9 '75" by Antonio Frasconi at title. Upper corner lightly bumped. Housed in publisher's red envelope with ghost of price label. Museum of Modern Art unknown
1955041168New York: The Museum Of Modern Art 1955. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Slipcase. Red Cloth Gilt Over Decorative Paper Covered Boards. #528 Of 975 Numbered Copies And 25 Lettered Copies All Signed By Frasconi Westcott And Blumenthal. Near Fine Slight Fading To Spine Cloth Gilt Still Brilliant; Pencil Ownership Signature Of Paco Lagerstrom Dated March 1955 And Small Ownership Label Of Anton Roshko. In The Original Black Slipcase With Cover Label Printed In Red And Black; Slipcase With Rubbing All Along Right Top And Bottom Open Edges 1/4" Splits Along Two Bottom Open Corners And Tiny Frays At Corners Of The Closed End. Paco Axel Lagerstrom 1914 - 1989 Was An Applied Mathematician And Aeronautical Engineer. He Was Trained Formally In Mathematics But Worked For Much Of His Career In Aeronautical Applications. He Was Known For Work In Applying The Method Of Asymptotic Expansion To Fluid Mechanics Problems.3 Several Of His Works Have Become Classics Including "Matched Asymptotic Expansions: Ideas And Techniques". In 1946 Lagerstrom Was Recruited By Hans Liepmann To The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory At Caltech.5 He Was Later Promoted To Professor Of Aeronautics In 1952 And Professor Of Applied Mathematics In 1967 Having Departed Only Briefly To The University Of Paris In 1960-1961 As Visiting Professor On A Guggenheim Fellowship. His Book "Laminar Flow Theory" Initially Published In 1964 In The Theory Of Laminar Flows Edited By F.K.Moore Is Still Considered As The Standard Textbook For Fluid Mechanics. Anatol Roshko 1923-2017 Was The Theodore Von Kármán Professor Of Aeronautics Emeritus At The California Institute Of Technology Pasadena Ca. Roshko Is Known For His Contributions To Gas Dynamics. He Along With H. W. Liepmann Is The Co-Author Of The Widely Used Textbook "Elements Of Gasdynamics". He Has Made Research Contributions To Problems Of Separated Flow; Bluff-Body Aerodynamics; Structure Of Turbulent Shear Flow. He Completed His Undergraduate Education At The University Of Alberta With A B.Sc. Degree In Engineering Physics In 1945 Received The M.Sc. Degree From Caltech In 1947 And The Ph.D. In 1952. Most Of His Academic Career Has Been At Caltech Where He Was The Theodore Von Karman Professor Of Aeronautics Emeritus At The Time Of His Death. He Was Also A Member Of The National Academy Of Engineering; A Fellow Of The American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics The American Physical Society The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences And An Honorary Fellow Of The Indian Academy Of Sciences. Roshko Received Fluid Dynamics Prize By The American Physical Society Aps In 1987. He Was Also Awarded The Timoshenko Medal In 1999. In Fluid Mechanics The Roshko Number Ro Is A Dimensionless Number Describing Oscillating Flow Mechanisms. <br/> <br/> The Museum Of Modern Art hardcover
1902962T55London: George Routledge & Sons 1902. Cloth. Near Fine. 8" by 5.5". Harrison Weir. A smart copy of this illustrated collection of fables attributed to Aesop with a clamshell by Eric Sweet. Illustrated with four colour plates and one hundred and fourteen in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of three hundred 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. Translated by George Fyler Townsend a British translator noted for the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables. Illustrated by Harrison William Weir a British artist. With a clamshell 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. In the original full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Additional cloth covered clamshell by Eric Sweet is in excellent condition. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Near Fine George Routledge & Sons hardcover
1971Q-039528810xSeabury 1971-07-19. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Seabury hardcover
1983009245San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. Book. Fine. Paper Covered Boards. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. "With an original leaf from the first edition 1818 of The Fable of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings." Fine in plain white paper jacket title in pencil at spine. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Publication no. 175 of The Book Club of California. one of 518 copies designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press binding by the Schuberth Book Bindery. The Book Club of California Hardcover
19831247071983. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. <br /> <br /> 4to 58 4pp. Frontispiece 8 illustrations an original leaf and a proof from an original block. Original brown boards white paper spine label. As issued in fine condition.<br /> <br /> § Edition limited to 518 numbered copies. The inserted leaf is " Jupiter and the Ass" and the proof is "The Boys and the Frogs". Not a rare book but an important addition to Bewick scholarship. There is a biographical sketch by John W. Borden and a history of the fables by Janet S. Krueger. The book was designed by Jack Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press who also took the new impression from the original Bewick block and lithographed at the Cloister Press. unknown
1984Q-0823405109Holiday House 1984-09-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Holiday House hardcover
19841-0823405109Holiday House 1984. Hardcover. New. 32 pages. 9.25x8.25x0.25 inches. Holiday House hardcover
1930306689San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. Number 160 of 200 copies 175 for sale. Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 1 vols. 8vo. Full brick-red morocco. Bookplate of Julia Wightman. Fine. Angelo Valenti. Number 160 of 200 copies 175 for sale. Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 1 vols. 8vo. Grabhorn Bibliography 142 Grabhorn Press unknown
193040828San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. <p>Pullman Jana. Aesop. The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope. Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton . . . No. 145 of 200 copies. 8 167pp. Woodcut initials and illustrations by Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 hand-illuminated by the artist. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. 230 x 160 mm. Custom binding by Jana Pullman of the Western Slope Bindery consisting of tan crushed morocco decorated with paint and colored onlays reproducing two of the book's illustrations; boxed. Very fine. </p> <p> An attractive example of Ms. Pullman's work. </p> . Grabhorn Press unknown
1972015415Carol Cunningham Sunflower Press Mill Valley CA 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Miniature 1 1/4" x 1 1/8". Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Gold paper over boards with an additional strip of decorated paper 13 pages. This book is number 64 of an edition of 75. A few small marks on covers can see webbing of binding in middle of book all pages are firmly attached. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 0 oz. Category: Miniature Books; Myths Legends & Folklore. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015415. . Carol Cunningham, Sunflower Press hardcover
198963936Harry N Abrams Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First. Hardcover. 0810915421 . Crisp clean copy. Binding tight and straight inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket is flap-intact clean with light edgewear now protected within mylar cover. Includes slipcase.; English And Ancient Greek Edition; 175 pages . Harry N Abrams Inc hardcover
1989Q-0810915421Harry N Abrams Inc 1989-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harry N Abrams Inc hardcover
1976001828<p>London: Scolar Press 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies this copy No.59. 4to pp6 of the introduction and pp292 of the fables themselves and the b/w woodcuts reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the Royal Library Windsor Castle. Hardcover no dust jacket. Binding of heavy raw linen with black stamped titles to brown morocco label on spine in near fine condition with a tiny bit of bobbling to the linen. Inside in excellent near fine condition. An excellent copy of this facsimile published for the Caxton quincentenary of Aesop's Fables one of the most popular books of the early years of printing. Caxton's edition of his own translation from the French was the first in English. Scarce <br /><br /></p> Scolar Press hardcover
1976962Y36London: The Scolar Press 1976. Cloth. Near Fine. 11" by 7.5". Not Stated. A superb copy of this limited edition facsimile of William Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables complete with chemise and slipcase. A very scarce limited edition facsimile of William Caxton's 1484 edition of Aesop's fables. Limited to 500 copies of which this is number 317. Reproduced from the copy in the Royal Library Windsor Castle. With an introduction by Edward Hodnett.In the original rough cloth binding with leather spine label. This copy is also handsomely presented in uniform chemise inlaid with decorative marbled paper and slipcase both with paper spine labels. Caxton was an English merchant diplomat writer and most importantly thought to be the first person to introduce the printing press into England in 1476. His was the first translation of these classic fables and is complete with a series of woodcuts throughout. Chemise and slipcase provided 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.Loosely inserted are a series of materials including a postcard informing Eric Sweet of this book a dated written receipt and newsletters from The Scolar and Alliance Record. In the original rough cloth binding with leather spine label. Together with uniform chemise and slipcase both laid with paper spine labels. Externally excellent with only minor pink marks to the front board. Chemise and slipcase are also excellent with a couple marks to the chemise spine label. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine The Scolar Press hardcover
192176331Boston:: LeRoy Phillips 1921. publisher's red cloth lettered in black in dust jacket with applied color illustration on front panel. Old bookplate; endsheets uniformly lightly tanned; otherwise fine in a jacket with a sunned spine and some very slight use. . 12mo. Illustrated by Oliver Hereford frontispiece in color. LeRoy Phillips, hardcover
