Fables Verse, Signed (15 results)

Paper Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Scafi, Alessandro (illustrator). Inscribed and signed by Conrad on the title page. CD included. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Rayevsky, Robert (illustrator). First Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. ; 11.10 X 8.10 X 0.40 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ruth Woyciesjes (illustrator). First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to "Marion" or "Marian". Very Good Plus, internally clean, solid hard cover copy in a faded dust jacket that is missing several small pieces, has some small tears and has some light stains. #. Signed by Author(s).

As new! Paper bound in illustrated, stapled wrappers. Inscribed and SIGNED by author inside front cover. Square octavo, unpaginated (approx. 48pp). A fine copy. 145 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

wrappers. No Jacket. 68 pages FR. Sound and complete reading copy, gift inscription signed by the author on inside front cover. Signed by author.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1820. First edition thus. viii, [iv], 370pp. Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is best known for his 'Fables', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France. The translator of this English collection is not stated but is understood to be John Matthews (1755-1826), an English physician and poet, who was also involved in local affairs and politics in Herefordshire. The translation contains partisan allusions to the politics of the day, and original French is given on facing pages. To the collection four Fables are introduced from the pen of a friend, and are marked with an asterisk. The book is bound in later (probably late 20th C.) blue cloth covered boards with gild titling on a brown cloth label on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear to the boards. The contents are tight and clean with two names written on the title-page. Tipped-in between the first and second front free endpapers is a slip of paper bearing the following inscription: "With the kind regards of The Author". Inscribed by Author(s).

LXXI, (1), 469 pp. + 12 plates. Publisher's cloth. Presentation copy with dedication from the translator Marsh to Walter de la Mare.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine; slightest rubbing to extremities; slight tanning to page edges, but only as seen with the book closed; else As New. No dust jacket issued. This is No. 8 of an edition limited to 150 copies, signed by the author/artist on the limitation page. May require increased shipping price for priority and international orders. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Inkwell Press (illustrator). small 4to. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards. (x), 118, (2) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Torre. The third book in Torre's series of three books on fables. Printed by hand on American etching paper with illustrations printed from the block and colored. Bound by hand. Sixteen fables and tales each accompanied by a colored woodcut. While serving in the US Navy, 1951-1954, stationed on the USS Orion, Torre printed his first books under the imprint of The Inkwell Press. During his Navy career, he produced a total of 12 titles on Navy equipment, in small editions of six to 20 copies. After his discharge, he acquired a hundred-year-old hand press and a Vandercook press, on which he printed over 60 titles in 50 years of activity. Cloth spine discolored. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards.

Two volumes. Full vellum, spines lettered in gilt. Dust soiling, very good condition. Lower and fore-edges uncut, partly unopened. Limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by Marsh and Gooden.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first edition of this Marsh translation, limited to 525 numbered copies (250 for the UK and Ireland, and 250 for the US, the remaining copies presumably for presentation), signed by both the artist and the translator (this being #505). Small 4to. lxxi + 235pp and xxii + 336pp. Printed by the Windmill Press on hand-made special toned wove paper and bound in full vellum, with gilt spine lettering. The top edges rough-trimmed and the bottom- and fore-edges untrimmed. Silk place marker to each volume. Title pages and all plates protected by an unprinted tissue protector. With a printed dedication to the memory of Rupert Brooke. Some mottling and discolouration to the vellum, as is invariably the case, and the protruding fore edges of some leaves a little nicked, else both volumes in fine state internally. A really super set of an extremely handsome production. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 vols. "With Twenty-Six Engravings on Copper by Stephen Gooden", 10.5 x 6.5", full vellum, 235pp; 336pp with index, covers spotted and darkened, spine ends bumped else a nice, clean set in the worn original slipcases. LIMITED TO 525 NUMBERED SETS (this is set #300), SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR, EDWARD MARSH, AND THE ILLUSTRATOR, STEPHEN GOODEN.

Limited edition, this number 397 of 525 copies signed by the translator & illustrator; 2 vols, large 8vo; half-titles, engraved pictorial titles, each vol. with 12 further engraved plates by Gooden, tissue-guards, edges uncut; publisher's vellum over boards, with original cloth-jackets and slip-cases, vellum a little coloured from jackets, a very nice set. An attractive two volume deluxe edition of the Fables of La Fontaine, sensitively illustrated by the often underrated Stephen Gooden, most renowned perhaps for this work and his contribution to the Nonesuch Press Holy Bible (1925-27); he was also a prolific bookplate designer and even had banknote designs taken up by the Bank of England in the 1930s & '50s. The translator Edward Marsh was a well-known patron of literature and the arts, most notably for his recognition and support of the World War I poet Rupert Brooke, to whom this edition is dedicated. The trade edition of the same was issued in 1933, comprising only twelve plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. John Dryden (illustrator). 1st Edition. Jacob Tonson, 1700. Hardcover. Condition: Near fine in period full blind tooled rich paneled calf neatly rebacked with a fresh morocco label by Alan Grace of Surrey UK. Listed in Wing, this is the 1st edition, complete with the half title and with the armorial engraved book plate of Sir. L.A. Burd with the motto: Summa Peto. First Edition. 1700. near fine in contemporary binding; blind-stamped, the only flaw was an early owner initials on title page, crossed, and an old light tidal mark on a few rear leaves, else a very pretty tight copy in a superb reback restoration with raised band from Surrey UK. overall a very nice copy of this important work. This may be the best available copy of a rare book. extra for shipping. full title being: Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with Original Poems Dryden, Mr. (John). By the Binder.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Sixth Edition; Fifth Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. [3], vi-cxi, [1], 296, [2] pp.; [59], 2-345, [5] pp. I9 of Volume One signed A. Set bound in 19th century full red, fine-grained morocco with gilt tooling and ruling to the boards. Spine has six gilt rules, with the title in gilt on each spine; the Fables has the year 1745 in gilt on its spine. All edges gilt, beautiful marble endpapers and pastedowns. Finely bound by Cecil and Larkins. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and a copper-engraved portrait of Charles the Earl of Middlesex and portrait of the bust of Persius, illustrated with an additional 23 engraved plates. Volume two illustrated with a frontispiece, title page printed in red and black. Packer 29. Text internally very clean, the boards are in exceptional condition. A beautiful set of two collections of stories from some of the greatest authors in the Western canon, with translations from one of the greatest translators of Classical literature. A Near Fine set with moderate age-darkening to the spines, else a lovely set of eighteenth century literature.