Aesops Fables (29 results)

library. Condition: Good.

library. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Murray Tinkelman (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Based on the translation of George Fyler Townsend. Introduction by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Illustrated by Murray Tinkelman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Book Club Edition. Red boards stamped in gilt with fox-and-grape vignette to front and gilt spine titles; 214 pp. A handsome mid-century Doubleday edition pairing Townsend's classic 19th-century English translation of Aesop's Fables with an insightful new introduction by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who praises the timeless clarity and moral wit of the ancient storyteller. Artist Murray Tinkelman's fine-line pen drawings, stylized yet whimsical, appear throughout, complementing more than 300 fables, including 'The Fox and the Grapes,' 'The Hare and the Tortoise,' and 'The Lion and the Mouse.' The edition revives the unabridged adult text, restoring the moral sharpness and rhythm of Townsend's original rendering. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. Clean, bright boards with sharp gilt and sound binding. Jacket shows moderate edgewear with chips at spine crown and a short closed tear and crease to upper front, small loss at lower edge; light toning to flap folds. Interior crisp and unmarked, with mild age toning at margins. Edition details: Copyright © 1968 by Nelson Doubleday, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A. Jacket design by Jackie Schuman. Book Club Edition issued the same year as the trade first. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-born American writer who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. Writing primarily in Yiddish, he became renowned for blending folklore, moral parable, and human psychology in works such as The Slave and Gimpel the Fool. Murray Tinkelman (1933-2016) was an award-winning American illustrator celebrated for his cross-hatched pen-and-ink style and contributions to classic literature, magazines, and the New York Times Book Review. His finely detailed line art and subtle humor made him one of the defining illustrators of the mid-20th century.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Kurdish. 126 p. Kurdish Edition of 'Aesop's Fables'. Çîrokên Ezopî. Translated from English into Kurdish by Sidîq Gorîcan.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good Checkerboard Press, 1989 hardcover Pictorial cover No dust jacket Pages and cover clean, binding sound INSCRIBED on flyleaf by RICHARD BACH.

Good spotted orig. rose cloth, tear from head of spine. [2], xxiv, 376 p.; 17.5 cm. Facsimile, including original title-page, from the Newcastle, 1818 and 1823 Bewick editions. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick. Binding is Hardcover.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ernest Griset (illustrator). The 'Popular Edition'Aese with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange. Edition and printing not known. In quite good navy cloth boards, gilt titles and walking fox with crane (from The Wolf And The Crane) to front. The boards are quite clean, a little loose from crack to hinge; edge-worn, with bumped corners and spine ends and sides of spine. Fairly clean pale yellow end papers. Tanned cut edges. The text block is firm and straight; lightly tanned on most page edges; a few marks and slight foxing to some pages, otherwise mostly clean and intact pages. Good plus condition. With numerous wood cut pictures by Ernest Griset, including frontispiece with a tanned tissue guard. No dedications etc. Publisher's list to rear. Overall good condition. Without jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Arthur Rackham. (illustrator). Cheaper edition hardback, red cloth covereed boards with black line illustration to front and spine. Spine is faded. Previous owners name to endpapers. Frontis is loose but present. Front hinge is cracked after first free endpaper. Slight foxing to page edges. Good condition.

FIRST EDITION 1977, 240 x 160 mm, 9½ x 6¼ inches, brown boards gilt, 63 pages. 10 excellent colour plates and many other coloured and black and white illustrations. No inscriptions, a Fine clean crisp copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, minute mark at tail of spine). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1977, 240 x 160 mm, 9½ x 6¼ inches, brown boards gilt, 63 pages. 10 excellent colour plates and many other coloured and black and white illustrations. No inscriptions, a Fine clean crisp copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, tiny crease at head of spine). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 52 Pages Size: B5.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Arthur Rackham. (illustrator). Author: Æsop. Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Title: Æsop's Fables. Publisher: London, William Heinemann; New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. First edition, limited issue. #1004 of 1450 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Language: Text in English. Size: 11.5 x 9 inches. Pages: xxix, 223 pages. Binding: Very good original publisher's white/cream cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover and spine, featuring the Rackham-designed title vignette (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, light age-toning and gentle surface soiling consistent with the period - as shown, spine lightly darkened and faded - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Upper edge gilt. A very attractive example of this scarce binding. Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing, toning and staining - as shown). No loose or damaged leaves. Illustrations: Complete with thirteen full-page color plates by Arthur Rackham, each mounted on brown paper mounts, as issued, and numerous in-text black-and-white illustrations and decorative borders throughout. The plates are rich and well-preserved, retaining Rackham's characteristic delicacy of line and subdued color palette. All illustrations present.  ****  The book: Æsop's Fables stands among the most celebrated illustrated books of the early twentieth century, and this 1912 Rackham edition is universally regarded as one of the artist's finest achievements. Vernon Jones's elegant translation, paired with G. K. Chesterton's thoughtful introduction, provides a literary framework perfectly suited to Rackham's imaginative and often darkly humorous interpretations. The large format allows the illustrations to breathe, making this edition a cornerstone of any serious Rackham or Golden Age illustration collection.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

library. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. Fabeln, Handeinband: Aesop's Fables. A New version by Thomas James, London 1898 Prächtiger Handeinband (geflammter Lederband mit Rückenvergoldung, Ganzgoldschnitt und Stehkantenvergoldung sowie grün marmoriertem Vorsatzpapier). "Aesop's Fables. A new version, chiefly from the original sources. By Thomas James. M.A., late hon. Canon of Peterborough. With more than One Hundred Illustrations designed by Tenniel and Wolf. New Edition." London, John Murray 1898. Ganzlederband (19 x 12,8 x 2 cm). XX + 148 Seiten. --- Zustand: Einband in exzellentem Zustand. Innen gut; nur die ersten und letzten Seiten etwas fleckig. Mit englischer Widmung von 1898 auf dem Vorsatz.

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.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First Edition American Issue. 224 pgs. Grey-green cloth titled in dark green, color pastedown to upper cover, spine sunned, corners worn, occasional foxing, slight spine lean. A selection of Aesop's fables illustrated with pictorial endpapers, a color, tissue-guarded frontis and 12 other tissue-guarded color plates plus full- and partial-page line art, all by Rackham. A delight. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1921 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 18 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 18.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1919 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 210 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 210.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1919. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 210, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 210.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: Yiddish. {Size: 19.68 x 24.13 cms} Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2018, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1921. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - Yiddish, Pages:- 26, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 26.