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WALTER CRANE'S PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1320310
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1900. Almost very good condition.

Comprising of The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet and The Baby's Own Aesop. Ltd edition of 500 copies in the UK and 250 copies in the USA. White spine with gilt title, pale brown cloth. 192 pages with top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed. Colour illustrations throughout. This is copy no. 489. White spine is grubby and split at edges. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth slightly grubby/marked. Foxing to endpapers. Light foxing and light fingermarks to page margins.

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THE FABLES OF AESOP
Written by Aesop; Samuel Croxall.
Stock no. 1318929
Published by Milner. 1837. Fair condition.

Instructive applications by Croxall. Small format. Brown cloth. Gilt title to spine. 296 pages. Illustrated with 100 b/w engravings. Pull-out b/w frontispiece. Covers are worn and grubby. Inscription in ink to front pastedown, further writing in ink to rear endpapers. Front free-endpaper is missing. Contents are foxed and very grubby.

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TALES FROM AESOP
Written by Aesop; Harold Jones. Illustrated by Harold Jones.
Stock no. 1318528
Published by Julia MacRae Books. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. 10 x 6.5". ISBN: 0862030188. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine.

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AESOP'S FABLES
Written by Aesop; Michael Hague. Illustrated by Michael Hague.
Stock no. 2130628
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Orange boards. Gold title to spine. Pretty full-page colour illustrations. 27 pages. ISBN: 041652950X. Bumping to top and tail of spine. Wrapper is faded to spine.

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FIRESIDE FABLES AND INDOOR WALKS
Written by E. Walter Walters. Illustrated by A.E..
Stock no. 2127484
Published by J.W. Butcher. Circa 1918. Almost very good condition.

Olive green cloth with red orange and black titles and decorations. 12 full page colour illustrations. Some fading and scuffing to covers. Bumping to corners. Front endpaper is cut out and missing. Some foxing. All illustrations are present.

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AESOP'S FABLES
Written by Aesop. Illustrated by Charles Folkard.
Stock no. 2126385
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1912. Very good condition.

The De Luxe limited edition of 250 copies. Cream pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Large format. 12 wonderful tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue-guards plus b/w text illustrations. 209 numbered pages, top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Burgundy silk page marker. SIGNED by Publishers. This is Copy No. 184. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Darkening/browning to spine. A few grubby marks to covers. Yellow stain to one corner of rear cover. Front joint is cracked. Foxing to pages in varying degrees; some pages just have foxing to outer page edges. All colour plates are present and in excellent condition!

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THE FABLES OF AESOP
Written by Aesop. Illustrated by Edward J. Detmold.
Stock no. 2126057
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Brown cloth with gilt titles and illustration to front. Pictorial endpapers. 23 beautiful tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards. Assumed 1st edition. Spotting/browning to spine; some chipping to cloth at top and tail; a little fraying. Wear along cover edges; a few small nicks at corners. Some foxing and browning, mostly to prelims. All plates present. Bottom corner of page 144 has small piece torn off.

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THE BIG BOOK OF FABLES
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2125303
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth with super gilt titles and vignettes of animals to front cover and spine. Green pictorial endpapers. 28 colour plates plus numerous b/w text illustrations. 293 pages. Spine is bumped and faded. A few small splash marks to rear cover. Name in ink to half-title page. Foxing heavy to prelims, lightly to other areas, including page margins. Frontis is creased to edges with a couple of small edge-nicks. All plates present.

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SELECTED FABLES
Written by Jean De La Fontaine; Eunice Clark. Illustrated by Alexander Calder.
Stock no. 1609314
Published by Dover Publications Inc.. 1st thus 1968. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. With 48 illustrations. Translated by Eunice Clark. Covers wrinkled and unevenly faded; laminate is lifting in places. Contents clean and bright.

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PALACE IN BAGDAD - SEVEN TALES FROM ARABIA
Written by Jean Russell Larson. Illustrated by Marianne Yamaguchi.
Stock no. 1507042
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. circa 1966. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Out of the exotic world of the Middle East come these seven tales of adventure, humor and mystery. Yellow pictorial boards with black titles.10.25 x 7.5". B/w Illustrations. 95 pages. Top of spine and lower corners bumped, some wear to spine and corners. Pencil inscription and other pencil writing to both endpapers. Light foxing to text block. Text pages very good. Dustwrapper is edge worn, with a couple of tears and small pieces of loss. Small hole torn near centre of spine, silver library binding label stuck below. 2.5" tear to base of front fold, small hole to rear fold. Also slightly grubby with label residue on front panel.

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MORE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE
Written by Jean De La Fontaine; Edward Marsh.
Stock no. 1506863
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Edition Limited to 165 copies, of which 150 are for sale. White spine with gilt title, pale blue paper boards. 48 fables. 88 pages. Edges uncut. Light bump to top of spine. Foxing and a few tiny marks to covers. Foxing, mainly to endpapers. Browning to half-title page and last text page. Contents otherwise clean. Copy no. 97 SIGNED by Marsh. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped with a little loss. Panels grubby, spine browned.

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THE DONKEY RIDE
Written by Jean B. Showalter. Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer.
Stock no. 1316305
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st UK 1973. Very good condition.

A fable adapted by Showalter. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0701150335. Boards warped. Some light spotting to textblock. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Original price label to rear cover.

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