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New York: The Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Covers have browning to the spine, slight browning to the edges. ; Volume Two only. Signed by Ruzicka. Copy #640 of 1500. Printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. .

New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. xlvi, 356 pp., plus 12 pp. publ. ads. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettrng (vry minor dmpstn bk uppr crnr), still a nice copy. First edition, 2nd printing of this excellent translation, by noted poet Marianne Moore of the Fables choisies, first written in the 17th century.

London : W. Heinemann, Ltd, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Scattered foxing. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: lxxi, 469 pages plates 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the French. Subjects: Fables, French; Translations into English. Fables, French. Fables. French literature 17th century. Genre: Bibliography. Children's books - England - 1933. Children's books. Illustrated.

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New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc.. 1982. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 0890095965 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light foxing on panels, spine, and text block edges. .

London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7.5". Auguste Delierre. A smart collection of fables from French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine, translated into English. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-four plates. Collated complete. A collection of fables from Jean de La Fontaine, a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. This collection includes tales such as: The Grasshopper and Ant, The Eagle and Beetle, The Bird Wounded by an Arrow, The Cat and Old Rat, The Horse Seeking Vengeance on The Stag, and many others. Translated into English. Illustrated by Auguste Delierre, a French artist and illustrator. Bound in full blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good

Viking Press,, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. [Presentation Copy, inscribed by Marianne Moore on front end page.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Wear/tear to jacket with loss. Jacket sunned. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. x, 342 pages ; 24 cm. *Autographed by translator.* <br> Marianne Craig Moore (1887-1972) was an American poet, translator, critic, and editor. In 1951, her work, "Collected Poems", won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize.

Hurst & Company. Fair. c. 1890. Hardcover. ; Green cloth cover with gilt and black stamped design is frayed at corners and spine caps with general wear and soiling. Boards and spine are straight. Backstrip has been somewhat crudely reglued with abrasions from old tape repairs to end sheets and paste downs. Frontispiece protected by tissue. 2" old tape repair to tile page. Pages are toned with modest sparse thumbing but overall quite clean and very good. Profusely illustrated in b&w. .

London; Cassell Petter & Galpin; n.d. (c-1870).. Thick Med. 4to; pp. lxix, 840; marbled endpapers, portrait frontispiece, 86 full page engravings, numerous illustrations within the text, bound in half leather binding with matching pebbled cloth covered boards, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration to spine and boards, all edges marbled, binding a little worn, hinges starting to crack, over all a sound tight clean copy.

New York: Viking Press, 1954. First edition, number 172 of 400 copies autographed by the Translator. Portrait frontispiece. x, 342 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Fine in damaged slipcase. First edition, number 172 of 400 copies autographed by the Translator. Portrait frontispiece. x, 342 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed.

London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884. Translated Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 304 p., 25 leaves of plates:Subjects: Aesop's fables.Fables, Greek. Fables, Greek; Translations into English.

London: Heinemann / NY: Random House, 1931.. Two volumes. Full vellum, spines lettered in gilt. Dust soiling, very good condition. Lower and fore-edges uncut, partly unopened. Limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by Marsh and Gooden.

Philadelphia: William T. Amies, [circa 1880s]. Quarto. lvi, 733 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with in-text and full-page woodcuts by Gustave Doré (all included in the pagination). Original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Very good. Short tears to spine ends and head of rear joint; corners worn. The hinges are partially cracked and tender, and the text block has dropped, but both covers are holding fairly well for such a large and heavy volume. The leaves are a trifle age-toned but, aside from a few minor traces of marginal soiling, the volume is clean throughout. A bright and attractive copy. Later edition in a beautiful example of publisher's cloth.

Cassell, Petter and Galpin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1880. Reprint. Hardcover. Mustard cloth binding very lightly shaken. IAll edges gilt, black and gold titles still bright and readable on spine. Small circular abrasion to spine cloth, partially obscurring the letter "t" in "illustrated." light rubbing to rear board. Undated, circa 1880.. Dore illustrations: 43 full page plates. 82 vignettes. Very faint remnant of owner inscription to front free-endpaper. Frontis illust: Jean De la Fontaine ; 757 pages .

London and New York : Cassel, Petter and Galpin, [ca. 1870], 1871. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Very good copy bound in contemporary leather-backed boards; recased with the original spine laid back. Gilt-decorated raised bands with a dark Morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 839 pages; Physical desc. : lxiv, 839 p. : engravings (some full page), incl. Frontis. (port. ) ; 32 cm. Subject: Fables, French - Translations into English. Preliminary matter includes biographies of La Fontaine and Aesop and 2 dedications. Spine and front cover title: Fontaine's fables. Text within borders throughout.

Philadelphia: William T. Amies, 1888. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece, B/W Illustrations Throughout. Lvi, 733 Pp. Three Quarter Red Morocco, Gilt, Over Red Cloth With Elaborate Illustration And Title On Front Cover, Beveled Edges. All Edges Gilt, Marbled Endpapers. Clean, No Marks, Gilt Brilliant, Binding Solid. Wear To Edges And Corners. Nicely Refurbished. Very Attractive, Very Solid.

Boston: Published by Elizur Wright, Jr. and Tappan and Dennet. New York: Willaim A. Colma. London: Edward Moxon, 1841. First American edition of the Wright translation, and the first American edition with Grandville's illustrations. Illustrated by J.J. Granville. xlviii, 245; 339 pp. Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundary. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. Original brown cloth with gilt stamped Urn on upper and lower covers. A Very fine copy with just a hint of foxing and rubbing. Granville, J.J. First American edition of the Wright translation, and the first American edition with Grandville's illustrations. Illustrated by J.J. Granville. xlviii, 245; 339 pp. Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundary. 2 vols. Royal 8vo.