![Item #13775 Aesop's Fables [Signed by Artzybasheff]. Aesop, Boris Artzybasheff, ed](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13775.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659387491)
New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in cream pictorial dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase; xii,86pp.; woodcut frontispiece and illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper, heavy color touch-ups to extremities, especially along top margin of front..... More
New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Limited Edition of 700 copies; this one unnumbered out of series. Quarto. 130 pages plus index and colophon. 85 black and white drawings by Calder. Printed dust jacket with $12.50 price intact. Yellow pictorial boards in brown cloth stamped in red. Housed in custom-made slipcase..... More
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. First Edition Thus. Quarto (29cm); publisher's boards in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 93pp.; lithographs throughout. Moderate wear and soil to dust jacket including a few small closed tears; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. More
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, Old Bailey, E.C., 1899. First Edition. Octavo. 208 pp. + 34 pp. publisher's advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth boards decorated in green, gilt, and white, designed by Talwin Morris. Gray endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Boards slightly bowed, but binding..... More
![Item #20008 Diaeli. Le livre de la sagesse noire [Limited Edition]. Andre Demaison, Pierre Courtois](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/20008.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675534325)
Paris: L'Édition d'Art, H. Piazza, 1931. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies on "Japon impérial," of which this is no. 19. Small octavo; 169pp.; publisher's white pictorial wrappers; illus. throughout. Just About Fine, a lovely, uncut copy. By the noted French novelist who often appropriated African motifs into..... More
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1889. First American Edition. 12mo; publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in black; [10],144,[4]pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Cloth scuffed with exposure and light fraying at corners and spine ends, spine also cocked and toned, brief soil spots to boards, textblock a bit darkened and shaken..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1951. First Edition with FSY symbol on copyright. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; boards in yellow cloth with black titles square and bordering to spine. Mottled staining / toning to jacket visible on both verso and recto, with small chips and tears..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Octavo. 244 pp. 16 color plates by Nielsen. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Jacket cleanly separated down front joint, with a couple small closed tears along edges, shallow chips at spine ends, and a bit..... More
Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1977. First Edition. Octavo; blue boards stamped in silver foil on spine, red paste downs and free end papers; pictorial dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; 186pp. Corners bumped, moderate wear to jacket margins, spine panel sunned, else a Near Fine copy with..... More
![Item #45356 Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur [The Warlord Chronicles: III] [Signed]. Bernard Cornwell](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45356.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758989523)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First American Edition. Signed by Bernard Cornwell without inscription at title page. Octavo; 436pp. Illustrated dust jacket; green and yellow boards stamped in red. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show mild shelfwear; binding sound; a few smudges to edges of text..... More
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and the Viking Press, 1937. Book Club Edition. Quarto (29.5x22x1cm); unpaginated [30pp]. Fourteen full-page color illustrations, with a similar number of vignettes and decorative motifs as marginalia. Illustrated dustjacket in metallic gold and three colors. Jade green boards with dark green lettering and..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Large octavo. 276 pages. 12 color plates by Nielsen. Full green leather with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on covers and spine. All edges gilt; yellow satin ribbon. A touch of wear to extremities and corners slightly bumped. Gilt edges of..... More
Paris: J. Langlumé / Théodore Lefèvre, n.d., ca. 1850s. Nouvelle Edition. 12mo; publisher's white paper-covered boards printed chromolithograph in four colors; viii,207pp.; engraved frontispiece and added title page, ten (10) leaves of plates, collated complete. Very light rubbing to board margins, spine a bit toned, else a Very Good or..... More
![Item #28144 The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless [with] The Ugly Duckling, The Sleeping...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28144.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700574788)
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. Limited Edition of 2500 copies, these copies being #312. Ali Baba signed by Edward Ardizzone and Ugly Duckling signed by translator Jean Hersholt and illustrator Everett Gee Jackson at rear; Sleeping Beauty unsigned as issued. Three quarto volumes. Color illustrations. Glassine dust jackets..... More
New York: Dodge Publishing Co., n.d. [ca. 1922]. No edition statement. Printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull & Spears. Quarto (10.25" x 7.75"); 157pp, [158-160]. Twenty-four illustrations -- 12 full color, including frontis, and 12 black and white, with black and white vignettes throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with white lettering and..... More
Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, 1923. First Thus, One of 35 copies printed on papier du Japon of which this is no. 2. Octavo; publisher's stiff brown pictorial card wrappers printed in black and red; xii,228pp.; one full-page woodcut illus. printed in black and grey, half-tone vignettes at the head of..... More
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo; blue cloth stamped in silver; 214pp. Black and white illustrations; no dust jacket. Touch of shelfwear to boards; Near Fine. More
London: Charles Fox, 1841. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm); publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; viii,107pp.; publisher's advertisements tipped to final leaf. Cloth a bit soiled and worn, fraying at spine ends, old glue residue and previous bookseller's price to front free endpaper, hairline crack to front hinge at title page..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xxxiv,[2],346pp.; two double-paged maps in rear. Brief soil to upper cover and spine, corners nudged, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy, albeit lacking the jacket. More
Jackson, MS: The Mississippi Historical Society, 1975. First Edition, one of 1000 copies. Slim octavo. 27 pp. Light green paper-covered boards with title label to front; green endpapers. Touch of rubbing to edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A paper read at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Mississippi..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First Edition. Large octavo. 172 pp. Color frontispiece; 9 additional black and white illustrations, all by Lathrop. Beige boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Boards a bit bowed and lightly edgeworn with general smudging and light spotting. Binding is sound and..... More
![Item #48006 The Epic of Kings: Stories Retold from Firdusi [alt. title: Shanameh]. Firdusi, Helen...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48006.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779203223)
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1882. First Edition Thus. Folio (34cm); publisher's decorative cloth embossed in yellow, red, blue, gilt, and black, pale green coated endpapers; xlvii,[1],339pp.; engraved frontispiece and one additional plate (table of contents erroneously calls for the first plate to face p. 45). Cloth rather worn and toned..... More
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1966. Two volumes; octavo (21cm); publisher's maroon cloth, blue and gilt spine titling, pale blue topstains; xii,590; xvi,685pp. Very light shelf wear, spines a shade sunned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpapers; Very Good to Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1856-7 edition. More
Patavii [Padua]: Excudebat Josephus Cominus Vulpiorum Aere, 1718. Quarto (30cm.); original decorative red and green papier-peint over paste-paper boards, remnants of manuscript spine label only; [20],113,[1]pp. (collated complete); woodcut printer's device to title page signed in image "G.P.," initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Boards rather worn with smallish loss to..... More
London: David Bogue, n.d. but 1853. First Edition. Small, slim quarto; 20th-century calf over tan cloth, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; frontispiece and five leaves of plates. Spine leather quite dried and starting to crack and flake, occasional closed tears to interior leaves with old crude tape repair;..... More