A Selection of Aesop's Fables
by Sanders, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Castle Books. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. Hardcover. 149 p. 25 cm. Sound and square binding in paper-covered boards, with stamped titles and illustration. Wear to edges and corners, more so at spine ends. Pressure mark on top edge of rear board. Inside pages are generally clean, bright and unmarked, with one or two soil marks. Dustwrapper has cello tape repairs to the spine ends and corners which are worn. The spine is faded. Overall some rubbing and light scratches. A selection of 70 of Aesop's fables retold by the author and illustrated with ink and pastel coloured wash. Originally published in the 1950s. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1612
- Title
- A Selection of Aesop's Fables
- Author
- Sanders, Barbara
- Illustrator
- Christopher Sanders
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Castle Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Fables;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.