Description:
New York: A. L. Burt Clean Tight maroon hard cover w/ gilt title on spine. 'The Home Library' Edition 335 pgs w/full pg. & small illustrations. Previous owner stamp on inside cover else FINE.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
THE FABLES OF AESOP. TEXT BASED UPON LA FONTAINE AND CROXALL (AESOP'S FABLES.) by La Fontaine / Croxall - 1936
by La Fontaine / Croxall
THE FABLES OF AESOP. TEXT BASED UPON LA FONTAINE AND CROXALL (AESOP'S FABLES.)
by La Fontaine / Croxall
- Used
- Hardcover
Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1936. 255 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H) - red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board, banding and picture paste-down on front board. Pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated in color and monotone. A collection of over 100 fables, including The Hare and the Tortoise; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Dog in the Manger; The Fox and the Grapes; The Frog Who Wished to be as Big as an Ox; The Wolf in sheep's Clothing; The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse; The Shepherd Boy and Wolf; etc.. Previous owner's bordered stamp on front pastedown, soft crease down front free endpaper, publication date has been hand written in pen at bottom of title page, book slightly stressed at two places (pages holding firmly), light to moderate edgewear, fraying at top/bottom of spine and at corners, slight fading to spine color, tiny dint to top edge of boards and to fore-edge of front board, light rubbing and very light soiling to rear board, small area of shelf soiling to bottom of textblock.. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Joseph Eugene Dash..
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (CA)
- Illustrator Joseph Eugene Dash.
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition 4th Printing
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Albert Whitman
- Place of Publication Chicago
- Date Published 1936
- Keywords Fables, Aesop, Morals, Instructional tales, Animals, Animal stories, Illustrated books, Hare & Tortoise, Lion & Mouse, Aesop's Fables, Joseph Eugene Dash, Samuel Croxall, Country Mouse & Town Mouse, Ant & Grasshopper, Dog in Manger, Bo