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Aesop's Fables
by Wilder, Blanche
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co.. Fair. Hardcover. 340 + ads p. 21 cm. No publication or copyright date. Square binding in green, cloth-covered boards with colour paste-down illustration on upper board. Binding is somewhat loose and some signatures are sprung, exposing binding mull. Corners and spine ends are worn through and fraying. Small tear to spine gutter on upper board. All edges rubbed. Both boards have a little rubbing and soil. Scuffing on front free endpaper. Frontispiece is missing. Inside pages have foxing and occasional soil, although the plates are generally clean and unmarked. 3" edge tears to the first two leaves of text. A reading copy, reflected in my price. An early 20th century edition of over fifty of Aesop's fables retold by Blanche Wilder and illustrated with 48 colour plates by Golden Age artist Harry Rountree. (missing frontispiece plate). .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5398
- Title
- Aesop's Fables
- Author
- Wilder, Blanche
- Illustrator
- Harry Rountree
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Fables;
Terms of Sale
Homeward Bound Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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