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Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur).

hardcover. Etat : As New. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). No DJ.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Arthur Rackham, (illustrateur). Reprint. Large octavo hardback. xx + 224 pp. 12 Colour plates and many black & white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Very Good condition in Very Good, orice-clipped dust jacket (slightly colour faded om spine of jacket). Previous owner's name on inside cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). Blue cloth cover with silver spine lettering in fine condition and sharp corners; a gift inscription is in ink, else unmarked and clean; solid binding. One or two fables per page with many black & white illustrations, plus several glossy full-page illustrations in sepia-tone or pastels. A Facsimile of the 1912 edition.

Glossy Pictorial Card. Etat : Very Good Minor Wear. No Jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). First Edition of This Edition 1977. Please Email for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). Very Good/Good. DJ tattered.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Reprint. xxix, 223 page Hb illustrated in colour and b/w by Arthur Rackham . a very good clean copy with no previous ownership markings in a very good dust jacket.

8vo grey cloth. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. 224 pp Good only hardback. Spine extremities bumped, water stain on corner of boards and pencilled ownership name and address on front and back endpapers. Contents clean, bright and unmarked.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). 224 pp., bound in half cloth and boards with pictorial dustjacket. Light shelf wear, spine jacket discoloured, fine copy. Ills. in colour and in black/white. 21 x 14 cm.

Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. 142 pages. 6.00x0.38x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur).

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur).

hardcover. Etat : New. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. Rackham, Arthur (illustrateur). reprint edition. 223 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. First US Rackham illustrated edition, 8vo (8.25 x 6 inches), pp. xxix, (1), 1-223, (1), 13 color plates with printed guards and 53 b/w illustrations many full page after paintings and drawings by Arthur Rackham. Original black lettered gray cloth with color plate on upper side. Unusually fine clean bright condition. Sheets and plates fine, clean, unmarked, complete. No owner names or inscriptions. H11005 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 2 to 5 days of cleared payment. The estimated shipping times and estimated arrival dates given in the listing are not provided by us and are usually wrong or very misleading. We do not pay for any foreign taxes or customs duties and have no information about them. These are the responsibility of the buyer. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. No jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). 7th printing. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Covers shelfworn.

Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering & decorationto front board & spine, blind motif to rear board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxix + 224pp, illus, coloured plates have captioned tissue guards, G+ (one plate (The Lion, Jupiter and the Elephant) has come loose and been reattatched in the wrong place with ugly brown packing tape, 'The Quack Frog' plate is loose but present with sellotape residue staining to gutter, 'The Trees and the Axe' plate lacks tissue guard, 5cm closed tear to lower front hinge, moderate fraying to spine extrems & board corners & around tear, faint foxing to spine, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to some pages, child's scribble in pencil to two pages, owner's inscription to prelim, tape repair to prelims).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 224 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original light blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine as well as a flying mystical creature. The front cover has a gilt design but there's also four small stains. The latter is the only fault. Otherwise, the book is VG being tightly bound and square. (On the first blank page, there's a neat Xmas gift inscription dated 1950).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Small po bookplate to inside cover, otherwise a very clean, bright copy.

Cloth. Etat : Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). A scarce neat collection of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham. Scarce work. Fourth impression, 1919. Originally published 1912. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and twelve colour plates with tissue guards and many black and white images. Collated complete. Aesop's fables, a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones, an American translator. With an introduction by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, a literary and art critic. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, an English book illustrator who is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Cloth lifting slightly to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot or tide mark. Good. book.

William Heinemann. 1912. First edition. Hardback, no DW. Original green cloth, decorated in gilt. Spine knocked with light vertical crease, extremities rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed, lower joint partially split along bottom quarter but sound. 13 coloured plates plus numerous b/w illustrations in text. Inner hinges partially visible and contents very slightly shaken. Prize bookplate to front endpaper, endpapers browned, occasional light foxing otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 210mm x 160mm. 224 pp. Green cloth with elaborate gilt stylings to front panel and spine. Touches of rubbing/edge wear, scuffing to corners but a handsome copy. Minor spotting to the first and last few pages with very occasional spotting to margins within. Tidy gift inscription dated 1912 to endpaper. The book is now in a protective removable acetate cover. 13 full-page, tissue-guarded colour illustrations by Rackham, one of the giants of the Golden Age of illustrated books.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrateur). First Edition. 1939 at copyright; early printing in rare pictorial wrapper. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Red full-cloth boards, Rackham mounted color plate, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear, spine rub. Front boards features color plate of The Hare and the Tortoise surrounded with blind-stamped animals: lion, wolf, stork, crow, rooster, frog, and owl. Deckled pages near fine, clean; no writing. Small antiquarian label inside cover: "Sally Stilson, Madison Heights, Anderson, Indiana". With thirteen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Bind good; hinges intact. Rare pictorial wrapper moderate edge, spine sunning, discoloration; protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel in deep red w/stylized titles, Rackham's hare and fox illustration; back panel features illustrated classics of the time availabe from Garden City books. Near fine profusely illustrated book of classic moral fables in good original wrapper. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables (1912) Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (Hudson, Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p. 94). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14).Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39. Printed in the United States of America. 224 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. A Very Good copy, attractively bound in publisher's green cloth with tipped-in paper illustration of the Quack Frog on front cover. Spine darkened with bright black lettering. Cloth is rubbed along the rear spine edge, and the rear hinge is separating. Rackham's illustrations are clean and crisp, with captioned tissue guards. A very attractive copy with all 13 colour plates and the numerous in-text black and white illustrations as called for. A charming volume in very good overall condition.

Hardcover. New Impression; Fourth Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner inscription to FEP. Edgewear to jacket. Scarce edition in a jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrateur). First Edition. First printed in 1912; stated 1956 printing, the twelfth, in scarce pictorial wrapper. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Evergreen full-cloth boards, bright silver cover vignette and spine titles, moderate shelf, corner wear. Bright silver flying stork vignette at spine. Pages generally very good, clean; no writing. Light fox to exterior text block. Small yellow striped antiquarian label inside cover: "Harold Hockey Ltd. Stationers & Booksellers, Clifton, Bristol 8." Illustrated endpapers featuring: an eagle, lion, rooster, frog, fox, mouse and duck; toned areas from removed adhesive at front and back endpaper. With eight richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Original white pictorial dust wrapper, moderate rub, discoloration, small spine sticker-pull; unclipped 15s NET, protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel features Rackham's "The Blackamoor" plate, as the first edition, w/title at spine; advert for Rackham titles from Heinemann at back panel. Attractive near very good mid-century printing in rare near fine wrapper. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables (1912) Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (Hudson, Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p. 94). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14).Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39. Printed in Great Britain at The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey. 5 1/4" x 8" design. 224 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrateur). First Edition. 1912 at title page; "Printed in England" at copyright page. Olive green full cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, Rackham pictorial plate of "The Quack Frog" at cover, some corner, edge wear, spine rub; back board worn along exterior edge. Pages generally very good; moderate discoloration, some toning. Includes frontipiece plate with captioned tissue guard: "The Hare and the Tortoise". Pictorial endpapers of collage line-drawing of Aesop's animal characters. Small antiquarian signature at front pastedown. Bind good, moderate cant; hinges intact. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. With a dozen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Near good first edition thus of this illustrated rarity from 1912. Printed by Ballantyne & Company Ltd. at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. 224 pages. Insured post. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (from Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: "Like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V). Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). 1st edition, 2nd impression. 1st edition, 2nd impression July 1916. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 223 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with tipped on paper illustration on front cover. Spine very slightly faded. Cloth is rubbed and spotted. End papers and text edges are foxed. Rackham's illustrations are clean and crisp, with captioned tissue guards. Binding is solid.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrateur). First Edition. 1912 at title page. Copyright page states "All Rights Reserved"; no other dates, indications. Olive green full cloth boards, gilt cover and spine design and titles,moderate cover, edge wear, rub. Front cover features stylized gilt titles and various animal characters and decoration. Spine features additional animals and titles in gilt. Back board feature blind-stamped Heinemann windmill emblem. Pages generally very good; moderate toning. Includes frontispiece plate with captioned tissue guard: "The Hare and the Tortoise." Mended closed tear to the "The Quack Frog," adjacent page 56. White pictorial endpapers repeat cover motif of animals in green outline. Dark green top-stain. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. With thirteen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Near very good first edition thus. Printed by Ballantyne & Company Ltd. at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. 224 pages. Insured post. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (from Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: "Like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V). Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Leather. Etat : Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). Arthur Rackham's strikingly illustrated edition of Aesop, complete with colour plates, and signed by Rackham. A signed limited edition of 1,450 copies, of which this is numbered 525.Signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham to the limitation page.In a custom cloth chemise and custom cloth slipcase, both of which are in a very good indeed condition.The important fables of Aesop.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, twelve tipped-in colour plates, and monochrome illustrations in-text throughout. Collated, complete.Aesop's Fables is a selection of fables, generally attributed to the Ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, who lived around 620 BCE-564 BCE. The fables are moral tales that guide in religious and secular aspects of life, following adventures of many different creatures.Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Rackham was a book illustrator who illustrated editions of 'The Ingoldsby Legends', 'The Wind in the Willows', 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', and 'Gulliver's Travels', as well as contributing frequently to periodicals. He is considered to be one of the leaders of the 'Golden Age' of book illustrations.This is a new translation by V. S. Vernon Jones.With an introduction by G. K. Chesterton. In a half morocco binding with cloth to the boards, in a custom cloth chemise and custom cloth slipcase. Externally, smart. Spine is faded. Light wear to the extremities. A few minor marks to the boards and spine. A small amount of loss to the paste downs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Slipcase is faded, with a few light marks. Chemise is a little age-toned with a few light marks. Both the chemise and slipcase are in a very good indeed condition. Very Good. signed by author. book.