Fables: In One Volume Complete with Wood-Engravings
by Gay, John & Peter A. Tasch
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0876360029
- ISBN 13
- 9780876360026
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Printed for the members of Imprint Society. Used - Very Good. 1970. Cloth spine with pictorial boards. 4to. xix & 234 pp. Illustrated by Gillian Lewis Tyler.Number 1770 from a limited printing of1950 copies. Signed by the artist. Top edge gilt. Slipcase missing. Mild shelf wear to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Poetry.)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q19963
- Title
- Fables: In One Volume Complete with Wood-Engravings
- Author
- Gay, John & Peter A. Tasch
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0876360029
- ISBN 13
- 9780876360026
- Publisher
- Printed for the members of Imprint Society
- Place of Publication
- Barre, Massachusetts
- This edition first published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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Chicago, Illinois
About Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Bookplate
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- Shelf Wear
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- Spine
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