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Price: US$213.98 + shipping
Description: 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. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$244.00 + shipping
Description: 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. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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.
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.
Price: US$954.02 + 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
Price: US$1731.40 + 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$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.
AESOP. Aesop's Fables. William Heinemann, Doubleday Page & Co, London, New York, 1912.
Price: US$2544.05 + 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$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies reserved for the United States. This is number 1297 of the American Issue with the Doubleday page & Co printed on the bottom spine. A very good copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's brown cloth and paper boards. The boards have some wear and spine has separation along the folds. The inside pages are separating from the spine. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a collectable copy SIGNED by Arthur Rackham.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.