New York, Abelard Schuman, Book Club Ed., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Weiss. Light soiling to covers. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soiling.
hardcover. Garden City, NY, Garden City, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Black & white and color illustrations by H.B. Vestal. Light chipping and edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 190 pages. Illustrated by Raymond Abel. Blue cloth cover with yellow lettering on spine and decoration on front. Spine faded. Stain to bottom corners of covers. Description of book pasted in front endpaper. Previous owner's signature front pastedown. Bumped spine, corners.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2nd, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers and spine. Covers and end papers slightly soiled; else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards. Color illustrations by the author. Covers with light edgewear, soil, rubbing. Illustrated end papers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Golden Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges.
NY, Hurst & Co., reprint, n.d. (1880's), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 557 pages. Many black & white engravings by Dore. With an essay on La Fontaine's life and work. Also, the life of Aesop, the Phrygian. Beautiful gilt and black design on green cloth. Sharp, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "This collection of illustrations from the National Art Library at the V&A contains well-known and unfamiliar fables accompanied by contemporary texts and translations, often with a topical or satirical content. It gives a cross-section of illustrative styles from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Fabulous color and b/w illustrations throughout. A wonderful reference volume, with a small bibliography and an "Analysis by Theme" at rear (plus Index)." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 20 original illustrated fables in color by Lobel. Caldecott Winner. VG minus dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, blue cloth covers with dark blue design. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. . Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, not price clipped ($2.50).
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black lettering, 231 pages. B&w illustrations by Erick Berry.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with maroon lettering, drawing on font cover, no dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Nicole Rubel. Though best friends, Maggie and Chester must separate as she prefers to live in the North and he, the South. Scarce title. Light discoloration to edge of front cover, otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover. Full color paste down illustration on front cover - minor chip of paper missing at bottom of interior red line of Fairy Caravan banner. Title in gilt on spine. Full color plates and black & white illustrations by Beatrix Potter. Previous owners name (written in pencil) erased at some point. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages. Color illustrations by Aldren Watson. Light soil to dust jacket. Otherwise very good. SIGNED BY ALDREN WATSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York , NBM, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by Russell. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, reprint, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth covers stamped in black, gilt title on spine, 416 pages. Features 8 plates in color and 174 richly detailed illustrations in b&w by Hans Tegner. First published in 1900, this subtitled The Queen's Edition published in 1909. Edges and corners of cloth worn, spine faded. Inscription on half-title page.
Hardcover. New York, Little Brown and Co., 5th pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nolan and INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne & Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, padded covers in color with gilt stamping and attachments. Book has very little wear. All color illustrations. Barker's early 20th century classic on fairies is here recreated in pop-up form with paste-downs and fold-outs. Clean and bright. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light abrasions on bottom corners. Light edgewaer to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Caldecott Honor Book with sticker on front. Handsomely illustrated with Brian Pinkney's color scratchboard drawings. Based on a West Indian folk-tale drawing on African, European and South American traditions.