![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
![Item #13067 [Text in Vietnamese] Giuong Buom Lên! Chuyên ve các nhà di bien và các nhà du...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13067.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651686732)
Mát-xco-va [Moscow]: Tre Nho, 1984. First Vietnamese Language Edition. Quarto; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; eight leaves of color pop-ups. Covers rather worn with small loss at spine foot and minor chipping along margins, old tape and glue remnants to rear cover, gift inscription to front cover and first leaf..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Second Edition, Limited to 3000 copies. Folio; publisher's cloth in tan printed dust jacket retaining original price ($6.00); xviii,[4],130pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket verso backed and extremities heavily restored, rear panel a bit dust-soiled and spine a shade toned, pinpoint wear to cloth extremities..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. First Thus, with no additional printings listed Quarto. [48pp]. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration. Housed in custom black slipcase. Dust jacket restored by prior..... More
New York: Macaulay Company Publishers, 1927. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom paper-covered slipcase; xi,[12]-268pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, six leaves of plates, additional text illus. throughout, color pictorial endpapers. Light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, else..... More
New York: The Macaulay Company Publishers, 1927. First Edition. Quarto. 268 pp. 7 tipped-in color plates including frontis, all present, + black and white in-text illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket; bound in blue cloth with black and gilt stamping; illustrated endpapers with gilt top edges. Housed in custom cloth-covered slipcase... More
New York: Leavitt & Allen Bros., 1870. Second Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 224,[14](ads)pp.; frontispiece. Cloth quite scuffed and rubbed at extremities with exposure at corners and spine ends, front joint starting, spine rather toned and gilt entirely effaced, faint contemporary manuscript library inscription to front..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1921. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Frontispiece + four additional black and white plates. Green cloth stamped in black with color illustration mounted to front board. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Illustration rubbed at edges. Binding is sound..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pages. Frontispiece + two additional black and white plates. Green cloth stamped in black with color illustration mounted to front board. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Illustration rubbed at edges. Slight lean to..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Frontispiece + two additional black and white plates. Green cloth stamped in black with color illustration mounted to front board. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure, most heavily a patch along top edge..... More
Chicago: American Library Association, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. 69 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated stapled paper wraps. Wraps worn along edges with curling to corners of covers and pages throughout. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [1845]. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's navy blue sheep over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; 35pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Boards rather worn with large loss of marbled paper from rear cover, corners exposed, repaired loss along bottom of pp. 23/4 affecting text with brief loss of meaning, textblock..... More
New Haven: L.H. Young, n.d., ca. 1840. First Edition. Thick 12mo; contemporary half calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 504pp.; 42 (of 48) woodcut plates including frontispiece. General wear to boards, textblock rather spotted and toned, lacking front free endpaper and six plates, 20th century ownership ex libris to front pastedown..... More
New York: James Miller, 1866. Fifth Edition, Revised. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's lilac blind-embossed cloth, pictorial gilt spine; 354,[8]pp.; illus. throughout. Cloth rather rubbed with brief exposure at bumped corners and spine ends, both boards rather soiled, faint ink scribble to upper cover, rear cover unevenly discolored, title page starting to..... More
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1914]. Presumed First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Large octavo. Unpaginated. Poems with black and white illustrations and color illustrations to facing pages. White cloth stamped in brown with front pictorial pastedown. No dust jacket. Light smudging and spotting to boards. Binding..... More
Joliet, IL: The P.F. Volland Company, 1922. Eleventh Printing. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Illustrated boards. Publisher's illustrated box. Publisher's bookmark laid in. Boards show light wear to corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Box worn at extremities with some general smudging and spottong, but structurally sound. More
St. Louis, MO: Verlag von F. Saler's Buchhandlung, 1868. Later Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed paper-covered boards; 132pp.; woodcut illus. throughout. Boards a bit scuffed and dust-soiled, light foxing to textblock, contemporary ownership pressure stamp to first few leaves, else Very Good and sound. Attractive German-American reader which appeared..... More
New-York: J.E.D. Comstock, [1847]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary half sheep over marbled boards; vi,[153]-426,[2],[9]-148pp.; 24 leaves of plates including 12 colored botanicals, woodcuts throughout text. Boards rather rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription of a Mary Hart to front free endpaper, rear endpaper torn away, else Very Good and sound, complete..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in four colors, [8],164pp.; two-toned (black and peach) frontispiece, eight leaves of plates, text illus. and vignettes throughout. Light shelf wear, chiefly at spine ends, spine cloth a shade darkened and slightly spotted, corners gently..... More
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and the Viking Press, 1937. First 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 frieze..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. First Edition with A-Q (January 1941) code on copyright. Slim square quarto; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.00); 39pp.; color illus. throughout. Some shallow chips and closed tears along jacket extremities, one-inch loss at spine foot and small paper flaw..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [c. 1908 but later]. Octavo; publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.00), green topstain; v,[1],9-319pp.; color frontispiece. Jacket extremities quite chipped and worn with numerous shallow losses to extremities occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, spine panel and topstain faded, corners..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First Edition (stated). Octavo; xii, 146pp. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in blue paper-covered boards with black stamped illustration and yellow cloth spine with black lettering. Pink topstain. Jacket lightly edgeworn with rubbing at corners and spine end..... More
Chicago: Reilly & Loo Co., 1920. First Edition. Small quarto; 243pp. Eight color illustrations with tissue guards including frontis, all present. Publisher's green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and borders and mounted color illustration to front. Top edges gilt. Boards are clean, sturdy, and square, with light bumping at top..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Color frontis, 8 full-page black and white illustrations, and black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Blue boards stamped in yellow. Boards lightly worn along extremities with some general spotting. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked..... More