Temple Robert Translator (5 results)

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Three very smart copies of Penguin Classics editions of Aesop's fables. Three volumes. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storyteller noted for his tales characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Many of the tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. This set contains: Fables of Aesop, 1979. New edition, later printing. Illustrated by Brian Robb, an English painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. Translated by Stanley Alexander Handford, a British writer and translator. Aesop's Fables, 1996. First edition, first impression. Selected and adapted by Jack David Zipes is a literary scholar and author who is a professor emeritus in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. Aesop: The Complete Fables, 1998. First edition, first impression. Translated by Olivia Temple, a British artist and writer, and Robert Temple, a British author of books exploring history, science, and culture. In the original pictorial paper binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities, minor rubbing to Fables of Aesop. Original price sticker to the front pastedown of Aesop's fables. With a cloth covered clamshell bound by Eric Sweet, in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the extremities. Near Fine. Brian Robb (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine, Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; Collector's Edition. Illustrated by Richard Sparks (illustrator). …