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Aesop's Fables: A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones
by Aesop
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper much sunned at the spine with the price clipped. The contents complete, clean and
- ISBN 10
- 0434958557
- ISBN 13
- 9780434958559
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1974. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper much sunned at the spine with the price clipped. The contents complete, clean and tight.. Arthur Rackham. Hardback in dust wrapper (navy blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¼” x 6¼” (1 kg); (xxix) 223pp; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Cover art by Philip Mann; Preface by G. K. Chesterton; Includes: Colour plates; Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Colour frontispiece; Illustrated lining papers; Title page vignette; ISBN: 0-4349-5855-7 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #196176|| Condition:
Synopsis
Aesop, known only for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was a slave in the mid-sixth century BC in Greece. He is assumed to have written many of these curious moral parables, and they have been added to and translated into many languages since they were first collected.
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 196176
- Title
- Aesop's Fables: A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones
- Author
- Aesop
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper much sunned at the spine with the price clipped. The contents complete, clean and
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0434958557
- ISBN 13
- 9780434958559
- Publisher
- London: William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- illustrated books children, greek fables, literary animals, animals literature, animal fiction, children's fiction, children's stories, young adult fiction, juvenile fiction, juvenile literature, folklore, fables, greek literature translations, gr
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