Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Good+
- Seller
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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. 222 pp. Includes over 200 fables, with black-and-white illustrations by Tenniel. A fine, apparently unread copy with tiny spots of wear to the corners. The dust jacket has moderate edge wear with frayed spine ends. Scuffed along the folds. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. Hard Cover. Fine/Good+. Illus. by John Tenniel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Aesop, known only for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was a slave in the mid-sixth century BC in Greece. He is assumed to have written many of these curious moral parables, and they have been added to and translated into many languages since they were first collected.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013541
- Title
- Aesop's Fables
- Author
- Aesop
- Illustrator
- John Tenniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Children's Fiction
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
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Andover, Massachusetts
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- Brodart
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- Spine
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- Fine
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