Aesop's Fables
by Santore, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Book is clean, fine, as new condition./Jacket a little ruffled at top and bottom edges. TIny chip at top edge near spine. Overall crisp and very good condition.
- ISBN 10
- 0517641151
- ISBN 13
- 9780517641156
- Seller
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Jellybean Press, 1988. Large 4to. 13-7/16" x 10-3/8". Glossy pictorial boards. Book is clean, fine, as new condition./Jacket a little ruffled at top and bottom edges. TIny chip at top edge near spine. Overall crisp and very good condition.. With 26 full-color paintings, including a deluxe double gatefold by Charles Santore. Perhaps no artist has ever taken the eternal fables of Aesop so seriously and yet with such lighthearted humor and sly delight as has Charles Santore in this new edition of the timeless parables.
Until this time, many editions have used lifeless, archaic texts, sprinkled them with maxims, and decorated them with little throwaway sketches, leaving the reader puzzled as to why the stories have been so popular for so long.
Now comes Charles Santore, who has taken the animals and their lessons to heart, dipped his fabulous watercolor brush in passion, humor, and life, and come up with scenes and animals that leap off the page, capturing the reader and the listening child, transporting them to a world of vivid contrasts and explanations of life's ways, giving them messages to ponder and physical beauty to savor Mr. Santore has an impressive knowledge of animals (here acting as substitutes for human beings) in all their moods and moments, and has conveyed it in an explosion of color.
Until this time, many editions have used lifeless, archaic texts, sprinkled them with maxims, and decorated them with little throwaway sketches, leaving the reader puzzled as to why the stories have been so popular for so long.
Now comes Charles Santore, who has taken the animals and their lessons to heart, dipped his fabulous watercolor brush in passion, humor, and life, and come up with scenes and animals that leap off the page, capturing the reader and the listening child, transporting them to a world of vivid contrasts and explanations of life's ways, giving them messages to ponder and physical beauty to savor Mr. Santore has an impressive knowledge of animals (here acting as substitutes for human beings) in all their moods and moments, and has conveyed it in an explosion of color.
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- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 830
- Title
- Aesop's Fables
- Author
- Santore, Charles
- Illustrator
- With 26 full-color paintings, including a deluxe double gatefold by Charles Santore
- Format/Binding
- Large 4to. 13-7/16" x 10-3/8". Glossy pictorial boards
- Book Condition
- New Book is clean, fine, as new condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Jacket a little ruffled at top and bottom edges. TIny chip at top edge near spine. Overall crisp and very good condition.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517641151
- ISBN 13
- 9780517641156
- Publisher
- Jellybean Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
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