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Aesop. Aesop's Fables. Heinemann William, London, 1912.
Price: US$89.98 + 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
Aesop:. Aesop's Fables.. London: William Heinemann, 1912.
Price: US$192.26 + 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$207.40 + 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$214.23 + 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$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$466.91 + 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.
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.
Price: US$1746.54 + 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$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good, bound in full white buckram with gilt titles and decorations. Minor wear, toning, weak smudges and a weak/faint stain to crown of front panel (does not affect interior). Interior clean and unmarked, binding strong. 4to, 11 3/4"h x 9 1/4"w. Beautiful edition, with twelve full-page color illustrations in-laid on brown paper, 53 black & white in-text illustrations. Limited to 1,400 copies signed by Rackham.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1929.56 + 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$1929.56 + 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$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.
Aesop. Aesop's Fables. Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$2013.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. xxx, 224pp. First trade edition. Contains thirteen color plates tipped-in on brown paper, and 53 illustrations in black & white. Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Save for the smaller trim size, the trade edition is identical to the signed, limited edition in terms of number of illustrations. In full limp leather stamped in blind and gilt on upper coverâ"a binding not noted in Latimore & Haskell. Extremely fine and fresh, still retaining its original glassine wrapper and fragile two-part decorated box, which has had some expert restoration to lid. (Latimore & Haskell, pp. 38-39).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, 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$2122.51 + 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$2572.74 + 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
RACKHAM, ARTHUR, Illustrator. AESOP'S FABLES. William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$2860.00 + shipping
Description: 280 x 222 mm. (11 x 8 3/4"). xxix, [1], 223, [1] pp.A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. VERY ATTRACTIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY BAYTUN-RIVIERE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers bordered by gilt fillet, front cover with gilt ornament replicating the title page vignette, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt fillet frame, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With 20 full-page black and white illustrations, numerous illustrations in the text, and 13 COLOR PLATES, as called for, each mounted on heavy brown stock and protected by lettered tissue guard. Printed on Large Paper. Hudson, p. 169; Latimore and Haskell, pp. 38-39. âFront cover with one-inch irregularity in leather (scarcely noticeable and apparently part of the original skin), faint browning or very light foxing to pages adjacent to (acidic) stock used for plate mounts, a few other spots of foxing, three color plates with slight crease to one corner, but still quite an appealing copy in an unworn binding. In a fine binding by an eminent English workshop, this is Rackham's take on the famous fables, populated with charming animals anthropomorphized to just the right degree, along with wistful maidens, anicent crones, and some seriously sinister trees. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) studied art at Lambeth School, where the work of his fellow student Charles Ricketts influenced his development. As Houfe says, soon after Rackham joined the staff of "The Westminster Budget" in 1892, he began concentrating "on the illustration of books and particularly those of a mystical, magic, or legendary background. He very soon established himself as one of the foremost Edwardian illustrators and was triumphant in the early 1900s when color printing first enabled him to use subtle tints and muted tones to represent age and timelessness. Rackham's imaginative eye saw all forms with the eyes of childhood and created a world that was half reassuring and half frightening. His sources were primarily Victorian, and among them are evidently the works of Cruikshank, Doyle, Houghton, and Beardsley, but also the prints of Dürer and Altdorfer." Our binding is the work of a firm created by the merger of two venerable English binderies. Founded in Bath in 1894, the Bayntun bindery has provided beautiful bindings for bibliophiles for more than a century. In 1937, Bayntun acquired the Riviere bindery, which had been in business since 1829, and began signing its bindings "Bayntun-Riviere," as here. It is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. This is an easy book to find in the publisher's cloth binding, but it is uncommonly seen in fine morocco, especially when essentially unused, as here. No. 1,035 of 1,450 Copies SIGNED by Rackham.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.