SELECTED FABLES. (ILLUSTRATED BY ALEXANDER CALDER)
by FONTAINE, JEAN DE LA; ALEXANDER CALDER
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
1948. FONTAINE, Jean de la. Selected Fables. Illustrated by ALEXANDER CALDER. 88 pp. text, including numerous line drawings. Folio, 350 x 224 mm., cloth, in a new purple half morocco folding box. New York: Quadrangle Press, 1948. This is the trade edition of Calder's illustrations of La Fontaine's Fables embellished with a full page drawing by Calder inscribed by him to Curt Valentin who was his dealer and the publisher of Calder's book, Three Young Rats.
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- Bookseller
- Ursus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9872
- Title
- SELECTED FABLES. (ILLUSTRATED BY ALEXANDER CALDER)
- Author
- FONTAINE, JEAN DE LA; ALEXANDER CALDER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- FONTAINE, JEAN DE LA
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