Ade's Fables
Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1914. McCutcheon, John T. Hardcover. 18mo. Olive publisher's cloth. 297 pp. [8] plate illustrations. Spine tilted, edges chafed. More
Fables
Fables in Slang
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1901. Hardcover. 12mo. Early reprint. Tan buckram with decorative floral design to front side and title to spine. Publisher's device in black to rear board. T.E.G., others untrimmed. 202 p.p. Illustrated throughout with humorous woodcuts. Description laid-in. George Ade was a newspaper columnist..... More
Fables
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. Bennett, Charles H.; King, Kevin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Limited edition. Genuine leather, gilt decoration to boards and spine. A.E.G. Ribbon marker. Blue moire endpapers. xxiv, 150 pp. Nine full-page B&W illustrations. Includes Notes from the Editors pamphlet, blue paper wrappers, stapled binding..... More
The Fables of Aesop, Paraphras'd in Verse (1668)
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1965. Soft cover. 8vo. A special publication of the Augustan Reprint Society. Orig. tan card wrappers, sewn and glued. xv, 211 pp. B&W illustrations. Some sunning to edges, creasing and light scuffing to spines, else fine. More
Select Fables: With Cuts Designed and Engraved from Thomas and John Bewick and Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together with a Memoir and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick
London: Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. Nicholson, Isaac [1789-1848]. Hardcover. 5.5 x 8.5 Inches. Contemporary calf re-backed with newer spine, raised bands. Inner edges dentelle. xl, 332 p.p. Frontispiece of Thomas Bewick, with several head and tail-piece woodcut engravings. Armorial ex libris bookplate of I.G. Schorsch. Boards..... More
Gems from Fable Land: a Collection of Fables Illustrated By Facts
New York: Charles Scribner, 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (Copr. 1852) Original green cloth binding. Gilt illustration of a fairy and two children flying on moth. Title in gilt on spine. A.e.g. xii, 13-336 p.p. Illustrated title page and frontispiece. Fables followed by a moral and contemporary tale. Boards rubbed..... More
Bulfinch's Mythology
New York: Gramercy Books, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards. xvii, [3], 957 pp. With 42 illustrations plus maps, charts, and an 80-page dictionary. Some bumping and creasing to spine foot of dust jacket, and some indentations to front flap, else fine. Includes the complete texts of..... More
Moral Emblems, With Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, From Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie
New York: D. Appelton & Co., 1860. Leighton, John. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 4to (small). Full brown morocco. Gilt titling and gilt and blind decorated compartments to spine. Gilt titling and frame decoration to boards. Inner edge dentelle. A.E.G. Marbled endpapers. xvi, 240 p.p. Copiously illustrated throughout with B&W engravings..... More
Alle De Wercken Van Jacob Cats
Zwolle: J.J. Tijl, 1862. Hardcover. Folio. Quarter-cloth with morocco spine, blind tooled boards with CATS in gilt to spine and upper boards, [10], xv, [4], 946, [23] pp; xv, 893, [18] pp.898 pp., illustrated with over 400 steel plates by J.W. Kaiser, including [15] full page plates. Light foxing and..... More
L'Alchimiste
Montreal: Editions Alexandre Stanke inc - Collection Coffragants, 2001. Malak, Annabel (cover illustration). Soft cover. 5.5" x 5" Soft cover book w/ audio CD. Unpaginated, approx. [44] pp. Audio adaptation by Marie-Jose Beaudoin. Translation by Jean Orecchioni. Read by Patrice Laffont, also with the voices of Serge Postigo, Marina Orsini..... More
Fables Moral and Political With Large Explications. Translated from the Dutch
London: S.n., 1703. Full-Leather. In two volumes. 8vo., full cont. calf, rebacked with a later spine, raised bands, leather spine labels, (28), 381, (17) index; vii, 391, (16)pp. index. Frontispiece. Front board of volume two reattached with archival tape, chip to spine head of volume one, wear to extremities, a...... More
Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen
New: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full red cloth. 244 pp. White spotting to fore edges, some small spots of wear to spine and tail edges of boards. Dust jacket is rubbed, damp stained to fore edges, a few small chips..... More
Fables Choisies
Paris: Librarie Marpon & Flammarion. Hardcover. 13.5" x 9.5" [ca. 1896 - "7th month, 8th day of the 28th year of Meiji"]. Scarce. Deluxe limited edition, 190 copies on high quality Japanese Tori-noko paper. In two volumes. Text in French. Oblong 4to. Publisher's decorative cartonnage bindings, textured brown paper rubbed..... More
The Little Prince
San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovonavich, 1982. Soft cover. 4to (small). Orange, illustrated paperback with prince on front cover, 91pp, illustrated. Fine. The little prince learns what is important in life from his interplanetary travels and, finally landing on earth, learns from a fox the profound secret to living. More
Fifty Fables. With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary By Kenneth McKenzie
New York: American Book Company, 1903. Hardcover. 18mo [5 x 7 mm]. Grey cloth binding with fleur-de-lis on front board. Symbol of American Book Company on rear. 127 p.p. Fables in French, with annotations in English by McKenzie. Boards soiled. Spine sunned. Thin stain from head to tail of rear..... More
Fables By the Late Mr. Gay: In One Volume Complete.
London: Printed for W. Strahan J. And Others. 1769. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Full brown calf with professionally rebacked spine. viii, [1] 10-192pp. A small soil to upper title page (text unaffected), light foxing. Wear to corners and edges, with some deep scuffs to boards but o/w very good. More
Fables and Tales, Suggested by the Frescos of Pompeii and Herculaneum
London: Richard Bentley, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (square). Halfbound in dyed dark green calf and light green buckram boards. Title in gilt on spine. vi, [2], 215 p.p., [24] p.p. illustrations including frontis. Bookplate of famous English Decadence poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) on front pastedown endpaper. Binders ticket..... More
Phaedri Fabulae, et Publii Syri Sentiae.
Paris: Ex Typographia Regia, 1729. Hardcover. 18mo. Red Morocco binding decoratively tooled with gilt. A.E.G. with sewn silk bookmark [4] 86 p.p. Includes engraved frontispiece. Separate half-title for Syrus [his work starts on p. 75] continuous pagination. From the library of [Victor] Leon Rattier [1824-1902], his red and gilt seal..... More
Indian Fables
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1901. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. blue pictorial cloth, bevelled edges, gilt lettering, black stamped vignette of the Tiger, the Bear and the Fox to front board. T.E.G. Deckled edges. xii, 129 pp. [18] B&W plates. Spine cocked, darkening to spine and edges, staining to boards, some..... More
The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables
London: Chatto & Windus, 1918. Hardcover. 18mo. Orig. green cloth. viii, 280 pp. Spine cocked and sunned, rubbed to extremities, worn to spine ends. Interior age toned. More
Aesop's Fables
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1968. Murray Tinkelman. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. red cloth with illustration and text in white, 215pp. A small bruise to foot of spine, o/w near fine in slightly worn and faded but very good d/w. More
Aesop's Fables. With an Introduction By Isaac Bashevis Singer
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. Tinkleman, Murray. Hardcover. 12mo (large). [Copr. 1968] Book Club Edition. 215 p.p., [9] full page drawings, with numerous in-text. Jacket edges and corners worn, and spine sunned, with small chips at head and tail. Light scratches to rear jacket, but otherwise a...... More
The Parade to Paradise: An Illustrated Fable
Vancouver: SummerWild Productions, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Collectors Edition, No. 79 of 250 Copies. Green linen boards with elegant colour illustration of bird pasted on, 42pp. Brightly illustrated on signed on frontispiece by the author. B/w frontispiece contains a laid-on etching. About fine, in a thin and fine unclipped..... More
Twelve Fables of Aesop
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1967. Frasconi, Antonio. Soft cover. 8vo. Third printing. This printing has been adapted from a limited edition designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Unpaginated, [32 p.p.]. Tan card wraps with red and black stamped titling to front, staple bound. Light bumping to top edge and..... More