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V. S. [translator] Vernon. Aesop's Fables. , William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: No jacket. A lot of dirty marks, a 3.5cm tear and some wear on cover. Also heavy foxing on first and last few pages and on outer edges and a handwritten message on second page. Content is fine.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
J M Barrie. Aesop's Fabless (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham). William Heinemann, 1912.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards with gilt titles. Firm binding. Pages are mostly cleanwith just a small amount of foxing. Only one of the 13 colour plates is missing. including the illustration tissue guard sheets (2 of which have been taped into place).
Seller: Bramble Books, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Price: US$72.96 + shipping
Description: Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering & decorationto front board & spine, blind motif to rear board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxix + 224pp, illus, coloured plates have captioned tissue guards, G+ (one plate (The Lion, Jupiter and the Elephant) has come loose and been reattatched in the wrong place with ugly brown packing tape, 'The Quack Frog' plate is loose but present with sellotape residue staining to gutter, 'The Trees and the Axe' plate lacks tissue guard, 5cm closed tear to lower front hinge, moderate fraying to spine extrems & board corners & around tear, faint foxing to spine, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to some pages, child's scribble in pencil to two pages, owner's inscription to prelim, tape repair to prelims)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Aesop. Aesop's Fables. Heinemann William, London, 1912.
Price: US$89.60 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Translated by V.S. Vernon--Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and printed at the Ballantyne Press. Bound in green cloth with gilt decoration, animal and floral, and gilt title to front board and spine. Endpapers decorated in green. Top edge green. Cloth heavy rub to head and base of spine. Small tears to edge of spine ( 1" and 2") front and rear. Front and rear hinge cracked. Pages 9, 65, and front free endpaper detched but present. Two of the Rackham colour illustrations, ( Crab and Mother p.44 and Quack Frog p.56 ) are absent. The remaining eleven colour illustrations are bright, unmarked and tissue guarded. All the B/W illustrations are present though those on pages 128 and 129 ( The Bald Man and the Fly ) have been crayon scribbled by a child. Overall binding now delicate and occasional marking throughout. Quite scarce and despite the faults described remains a charming copy. Size: 6" By 8"
Seller: Ashtree Books, Holsworthy, DEVON, United Kingdom
Grimm Brothers. Aesop's Fables. William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones. Aesop's Fables. William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition illustrated by this iconic illustrator with 13 colour plates. Internally a very good copy in original green cloth with gilt vignette and titles. With a neat contemporary inscription to preliminary blank. Spine embrowned and with some trivial marks from readers.
Seller: Chris Phillips, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Aesop:. Aesop's Fables.. London: William Heinemann, 1912.
Price: US$191.85 + shipping
Description: First edition. A New Translation by V.S.Vernon Jones; with an introduction by G.K.Chesterton. 8vo. pp224. Illustrated with numerous black and white line drawings and 13 tissue-guarded colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Bound in original covers of green buckram with paste-down plate. Illustrated endpapers. Spine sunned and small breaks in cloth head and base of spine, and corners of book. Inscription of previous owner. Otherwise very good.
Seller: Sillan Books, Cootehill, CAVAN, Ireland
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 210mm x 160mm. 224 pp. Green cloth with elaborate gilt stylings to front panel and spine. Touches of rubbing/edge wear, scuffing to corners but a handsome copy. Minor spotting to the first and last few pages with very occasional spotting to margins within. Tidy gift inscription dated 1912 to endpaper. The book is now in a protective removable acetate cover. 13 full-page, tissue-guarded colour illustrations by Rackham, one of the giants of the Golden Age of illustrated books
Seller: Love Rare Books, St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Aesop; Rackham, Arthur; Jones, V. S. Vernon. Aesop's Fables. William Heinemann, 1912.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published 1912. Missing 5 of the 13 full-colour plates.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL GILT DECORATED CLOTH BINDING, A COMPLETE COPY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH 13 FULL PAGE COLOUR PLATES BY RACKHAM WITH TISSUE GUARDS + NUMEROUS BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THAT ARE FULL PAGE & AMONG TEXT, LATER REPLACEMENT DECORATED ENDPAPERS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 X 6 INCHES WITH 29 + 224 PAGES. SPINE HAS BEEN EXPERTLY RELAID WITH LATER CLOTH INSERTED BEHIND ORIGINAL SPINE, SOME VERY LIGHT RUBBING TO COVER EDGES, CORNERS BUMPED, VERY OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING OR MINOR MARKS TO PAGES WHICH IS A LITTLE HEAVIER TO HALF TITLE & ENDPAPERS, VERY OCCASIONAL LIGHT WEAR TO PAGE MARGINS, ONE ILLUSTRATIONS WITH SMALL REPAIR TO MARGIN. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY & MOSTLY CLEAN INTERNALLY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
VERNON JONES, V.S / RACKHAM, Arthur. Aesop's Fables. William Heinemann, 1912.
Price: US$307.41 + shipping
Description: New edition, translated by A.S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by by G.K. Chesterton, & illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Green cloth with gilt lettering & decoration; 13 colour illustrations by Rackham as required, complete with tissue-guards. Owner's name on front free end paper; some light scattered foxing throughout; a little wear at head & foot of spine; tiny dent in edge of front board
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1912 at title page; "Printed in England" at copyright page. Olive green full cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, Rackham pictorial plate of "The Quack Frog" at cover, some corner, edge wear, spine rub; back board worn along exterior edge. Pages generally very good; moderate discoloration, some toning. Includes frontipiece plate with captioned tissue guard: "The Hare and the Tortoise". Pictorial endpapers of collage line-drawing of Aesop's animal characters. Small antiquarian signature at front pastedown. Bind good, moderate cant; hinges intact. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. With a dozen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Near good first edition thus of this illustrated rarity from 1912. Printed by Ballantyne & Company Ltd. at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. 224 pages. Insured post. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables 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 scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (from Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work). 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 B.C. The first century A.D. 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). Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
. Aesop's Fables Arthur Rackham 1912 SIGNED LIMITED ED #499/1450. William Heinemann, 1912.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The book is in fair condition. There are no signatures, bookplates, or markings of any kind. The back cover is stained and worn (shown above). This book contains all 13 original tipped-in color plates, plus many black and white illustrations by Rackham. They all have tissue guards with their title printed on the guards and they are all mounted on heavy stock quality brown paper. There is some light foxing. This edition is signed by Arthur Rackham and was limited to 1450 copies, this copy being # 499. A rare find in any condition.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$463.19 + shipping
Description: Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Good+ condition. No dustjacket. A clean and solid copy. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front and spine. Publishers blind stamp to rear board. Decorated endpapers. Copyright page says "All Rights Reserved". Printed by Ballantyne & Company, London. Some mild foxing. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Thirteen [13 - incl frontispiece] full colour plates (all present with tissue guards] and numerous black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 224 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1912 at title page. Copyright page states "All Rights Reserved"; no other dates, indications. Olive green full cloth boards, gilt cover and spine design and titles,moderate cover, edge wear, rub. Front cover features stylized gilt titles and various animal characters and decoration. Spine features additional animals and titles in gilt. Back board feature blind-stamped Heinemann windmill emblem. Pages generally very good; moderate toning. Includes frontispiece plate with captioned tissue guard: "The Hare and the Tortoise." Mended closed tear to the "The Quack Frog," adjacent page 56. White pictorial endpapers repeat cover motif of animals in green outline. Dark green top-stain. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. With thirteen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Near very good first edition thus. Printed by Ballantyne & Company Ltd. at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. 224 pages. Insured post. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables 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 scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (from Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work). 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 B.C. The first century A.D. 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). Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Rackham, Arthur (illust). Aesop's Fables. LONDON: William Heinemann, 1912.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. 4to: xxix, 224pp. 13 coloured plates with tissue guards. Rubbed white cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, without dust wrapper. Has tanning on spine, spotting on end papers and prelims. Some pages tanned immediately following plates. Signed by Arthur Rackham No. 1150 of 1450. Gilt top edge.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Description: 4to. Cream cloth with gilt decoration and titles to front cover and spine. t.e.g. and other edges uncut. With 13 tipped-in colour plates on card, behind captioned tissue-guards, and many black and white plates and text illustrations, complete as per list. In a limited edition of 1,450 copies, this being No. 593 and SIGNED by Rackham to verso of half-title. Front and back covers a little marked. Spine darkened, and with two small puncture holes. Rear cover hinge a little shaken. Spot to inner margin pp. 5-14. Crease to corner of plates at 56 and 84. Tissue-guard creased at pp. 70. Crease to corner of pp. 107-110 and 181/182. Off-setting from cards and tissue-guards. Still a sound copy, generally good internally. pp. xxix, [i], 224.
Seller: Grove Rare Books PBFA, Skipton, United Kingdom
Aesop; Rackham, Arthur [Illustrations]. Aesop's Fables. William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Deluxe limited edition; copy #540 of 1,450 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.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
[Rackham, Arthur] Jones, Vernon V.S. (translator). Aesop's Fables. William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Description: Small square octavo (8 x 5 7/8 inches; 202 x 149 mm.). Collating xxix, [1, blank], 223, [1]. Complete with the original color pictorial dust jacket, the front panel with a reproduction of the color plate facing p. 84 "The Blackamoor", the spine correctly priced "6/= net" and advertising the 1912 Heinemann publication "The Four Gardens on the back". Dust jacket chipped at lower left of front panel, small chip on lower right corner, and small chip at top of spine, but with no loss of lettering. One small 'tape' stain at top of jacket spine. An excellent example of this original pictorial dust jacket. 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. Very slight browning on pictorial front end-paper from loosely inserted Leicester Galleries leaflet. Thirteen color plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards, fifty-three black and white drawings of which nineteen are full page. A Fine and bright copy. 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 Book V, 14). Latimore and Haskell 38-39. Riall 111.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Description: Number 401 of 1,450 copies signed by the illustrator. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt, remaining edges deckled. With a bit of toning to spine and wear to corners. Rear hinge repaired. Internally with some foxing and offsetting to preliminary and terminal pages; long snag to rear pastedown. A pleasing example overall. 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). Aesop's morality tales endure, and they are made more memorable for Rackham's visual renderings which mix the fanciful with the darker possibilities that lurk within every fable. Latimore and Haskell 38-39. Riall 111.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. xxix, 224 pp. With frontispiece and twelve color tipped-in mounted plates by Arthur Rackham, and text illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's gilt white cloth, t.e.g. First edition; No. 28 of 1450 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Latimore and Haskell, 39. Endsheets lightly tanned; edges of cloth lightly foxed; plates and text clean and bright. Laid in is a small broadside printed in red for a 1912 Leicester Galleries exhibition of Rackham original watercolors for this and other subjects.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
. Aesop's Fables (Signed, numbered edition). William Heinemann, 1912.
Price: US$1537.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 351/1450. Signed by illustrator. Spine band is lightly marked, as are white boards. No jacket. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Gentle tanning/foxing throughout, predominantly to page edges and endpapers. Contents all clear and legible.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$1743.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Edition de luxe, No. 572 of 1450, signed by Arthur Rackham. Half crimson levant morocco, gilt tooled spine, red cloth boards, marked and a little worn, rubbed to the fore edge, top edge gilt, name to ffep, thirteen tipped in coloured plates with brown off-setting to the subsequent page from their mounts, foxing throughout, otherwise clean, tight, sound, good. A heavy book.
Seller: Byre Books, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Description: , xxix [1] 1-224 pages, colour illustrated tipped-in frontispiece, illustrated title, illustrations throughout, 13 colour plates and 53 line illustrations, signed by Arthur Rackham, forwarded by G. K. Chesterton, limited to 1450 copies, this no. 534 Limited Edition , original covers are lightly marked, some shading on the spine, light wear, bumped corners, light shading on the free end paper, untrimmed and the block edge is slightly sunned, the contents are clean crisp and bright, the illustrations are lovely, the book is in very good condition , bound in cream cloth with gilt work and titles to the front and the spine, gold top edge , quarto, 29.5 x 23.5cm Hardback SIGNED by the Illustrator ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
AESOP. Aesop's Fables.. William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. And Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 13 tipped-in colour plates on brown art paper with printed tissue guards and black and white illustrations throughout. First Limited Signed Edition. 4to. [295 235 x 35 mm]. [2], xxx, 224 pp. Bound in the publisher's original white cloth, front cover and spine blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, the others uncut. (Spine discoloured and covers a little marked, endleaves browned). No. 1006 of 1450 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Light foxing in the margins but a good copy. With a loosely inserted flyer for the exhibition of the original water-colour drawings held at the Leicester Gallery in 1912. This copy was last sold in 1968, for 9 guineas.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1925.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED by Arthur Rackham on the half-title verso. Hand-numbered copy 421 of an Edition limited to 1450. 4to, white cloth, gilt lettering and pictorial stamping to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, deckled fore and tail. 12 full-page color illustrations inlaid on brown paper, 53 b/w in-text illustrations. Some typical foxing to cover and extremities with occasional spots throughout, spine toned as most are, otherwise exceedingly clean, sharp and tight with FINE original khaki slipcase, an uncommon survival among Rackham limiteds. [Latimore & Haskell, 38-39].
Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Aesop's Fables, Signed by Arthur Rackham. A new translation by Vernon Jones. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heineman, New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1912. First Edition. Published with a limitation of 1450 copies, this being # 1405. Rebound in 3/4 maroon morocco with gilt titles and floral design to spine. 4to. 224 pp. Contains thirteen color plates tipped-in on brown paper, and 53 illustrations in black & white. Pages internally clean and almost spotless!
Seller: Timeless Tales Rare Books, Acton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2050.00 + shipping
Description: 224 pages, 29.5 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 1135 of 1450, signed by Rackham. Thirteen mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, and 53 drawings in black and white. LATIMORE & HASKELL p.38-39. Text generally clean, a few margins or corners toned. Recased in light gray cloth spine and marbled boards. Teg. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2113.43 + shipping
Description: First edition. Signed Limited Edition. Original white cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. With 13 tipped in colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard and 53 black and white drawings throughout the text by Arthur Rackham. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm with some toning of the spine, the gilt titles and illustration clear and bright. The contents are entirely complete, clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. All colour plates and their tissue guards are in fine bright condition and without corner creases. A very attractive example of this beautifully illustrated Arthur Rackham signed deluxe edition. Limited to 1450 copies of which this is number 1103 and signed by Arthur Rackham in black ink on the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. xxix, 224 pp. With frontispiece and twelve color tipped-in plates by Arthur Rackham, and text illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's gilt white cloth in publisher's plain paper wrapper (neatly titled in ms. on spine by a former owner) First edition. Slight bump to one corner and the slightest of soiling to the white cloth; light foxing to endsheets; some shallow chipping and use to the wrapper; a very attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: illustrator]. AESOP, [contributor]. CHESTERTON, G.K., [contributor]. VERNON JONES, V.S., [translator]. Æsop'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. Full Description: [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. AESOP. Æsop'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 with an original drawing by Rackham on the half-title. Octavo (8 x 6 inches; 200 x 150 mm). xxix, [1, blank], 223, [1] pp. Thirteen color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards, and fifty-three drawings in black and white (nineteen full-page). Hal-title includes a half-page original drawing by Rackham of a crow and a smaller bird surrounded by a square frame and signed "AR" in the lower left corner. Below the drawing is an inscription signed "Arthur Rackham" and dated 1912. Original green buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge stained green. Pictorial endpapers. Minimal foxing to endpapers. Some rubbing Along edges and top and bottom of spine. Binding slightly skewed. Front inner hinge starting but firm. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. Overall a very good copy. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 38-39. HBS 68875. $2,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
AESOP. Aesop's Fables. William Heinemann, Doubleday Page & Co, London, New York, 1912.
Price: US$2561.73 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on brown art paper with captioned tissue guards and black and white illustrations throughout. First Limited Signed Edition. Large 4to. [295 x 232 x 31 mm]. xxix, [i], 223, [1] pp. Bound in the publisher's original white cloth, the front cover and spine blocked in gilt, plain endleaves, top edge gilt, the others uncut. (Spine slightly darkened, a few minor marks). [ebc8041]. London: William Heinemann. New York: Doubleday Page & Co, 1912. No.534 of the de luxe edition limted to 1450 copies signed by Rackham, of which 250 were reserved for the United States of America, 200 for Australia and 1000 for Great Britain and Ireland. A very good copy.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION of 1450 copies printed. This copy is SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. A beautiful copy. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Rackham First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.